Slacking

Loves this pic

Clay loves this big world that moves on water. I look over and saw him standing in the water with his shoes on and I told him not to stand there with his shoes on. So I'm sure he thought "oh, okay I'll just take them off and stand in the water". I should have phrased it differently.

Well, than I look over and find him sitting in the water. I guess I should have known how this whole experience was going to end up. To bad it wasn't big enough for his whole body.

This kid is always on the move and the moment he stops this is what happens. Believe me, I have tried to put him down for a nap, it doesn't work. (Notice his underwear? Yeah they are backwards)

Ansley is starting to play with books, its pretty cute.

The mornings Clay goes to school I walk with a friend and she has a little boy a couple of months younger than her. Match made in heaven? Maybe.

Isn't she sweet?

I love the rosie cheeks.

She loves to chew on this tooth brush.

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I have realized that I have been slacking in the blogging area of my life. Lets be honest, I don't do it for you few who look at it, I do it for a journal. I usually print it into a book after each year, its easier than scrape booking for me. Anyways, I haven't been keeping up on it, so here are a few pics of the kids. Be prepared for October though we have many things planned for the month, like Disneyland for example.

Traditions for School

Clay had his first day of school a couple of weeks ago. Well he actually missed the official first day because he vomited all over the car the day before, so he first day was a Friday. I wasn't worried about Clay because I knew he would love riding the bus to school. I was more worried how I was going to react to it. Surprisingly, I did very well.
As some of you know, Clay is going to the Head Start Program they offer through the school districts. We had him tested for his speech and found that he has some behavioral problems that keep him from learning certain things. It has been about 5 months since than and he has improved so much with his speech and behavior. Now that we new what was going on we as parents could help him in the proper way. So because of those delays he is going to preschool at Orem elementary.

I know he is only in preschool but I thought it would be fun to start some traditions for the first day of school. The first thing I did was made a schedule with pictures so Clay has some consistency and knows what he needs to do before school. I didn't know if he would like it but he loves looking at the picture and saying what he needs to do next then crossing it off after we have done it. It makes the mornings run smooth.

Another tradition I started was while he's in school I made a giant chocolate chip oatmeal cookie for him. I was going to write 1st day of school on it with icing but didn't have time.

The last tradition is measuring him on this measuring board I made. So he can see how big he is now that he is a big boy going to school.(I made one for Ansley, too).

My little boy is growing up.