Happy little red head!

those cheeks are getting so big!!



you can almost see his top two teeth..he's up to 4 now!



Whats up dude!

Mason & Isaac had fun dressing up today...its a little blurry..but neither really wanted their picture..and of course we couldn't get one when they were Batman & Spiderman....next time!
(Isaac is suppose to be a fireman if you can't tell!)

School bus

So Madi's new favorite thing is the school bus!




She got her first "homework" assignment. The teacher sent home a poster board for her to fill out all about her. Of course this one got smashed on the bus ride home so we went and got a PINK one to replace it! Go figure..we filled it with a bunch of pictures she picked out..lots of family pictures and some of just things she loves...she even wrote her name....she's very excited to take it in tomorrow. They pick one kids every week to do this and then that child is Super Star for the week and gets other special priviledges. So Madi gets to go first!

Ethan's Pirate Party

Here is Isaac before the party. He had been waiting since 7 am for the party. He kept asking me all day if the party was ever going to happen...I think after a while he thought it was a lie. All he knew was sissy got to go to Brittyn's party and that started at 11. Well there was a long time (in his mind) between then and 4:00. At about 3:30 he finally gave up and slept...he didn't even finish his twizzlers! But we woke him up and he was ready to go! Finally the party was here!


The gang....

Birthday boy ...awesome cake Browns!

Buds

More Clark Family Photos

Here's the one of Elliot and I that I love! Sweet Cheeks!

The Brothers!

Madi & E

the fam

the grandkids! With Papa & Greg-gra

Doug's Family

Doug's Kids!

Another one of me and Elliot.

Isaac & Mommy Day.

Well I asked Isaac what he wanted to do today while Madi was at school....guess what he said? "I want to go to the orange store!" So off we went to Home Depot! Thanks Jon! So he got to ride the tractors! He then wanted to go for ice cream..but I thought 10:30 was a little early for ice cream! so...instead I convinced him to go to a "big Toy store!" So we chose Kmart! Little closer!! He loved it. We found this fun little lego set for $2...and came home to put it together. It was a fun little project! I think he misses his sister a lot. He keeps asking when she'll be home. This morning before she left he was all upset she was leaving. Madi tried to calm him down...."It's okay brother....I'll be home tomorrow and we can play then". It was too sweet! I'm glad they'll miss each other...



He loved the little policeman!

School....

Well my baby is finally going to school! Yikes! Am I that old...oh no!
Last week we had an open house to meet her teacher and tour the school..and of course have ice cream! Madi didn't say too much the whole time and of course would not answer anything she was asked. They even asked her to find her name on her chair and she never could...but I think she was just nervous. I was nervous! But I wasn't too worried because when we asked her if she wanted to go back in an take a picture of her with her teacher she was all grins. Then she even smiled for the picture...if you know Madi..that's not an easy thing to coax her to do. So that told me she was really excited and like her new teacher. Which by the way..we do too! She is so great already.

Here she is at the open house.

Here we are today getting ready to take Madi to school. They have it set up for the parents to take the kids for just 1 hour on the first day and thats it. So after the hour we took her home and thursday will be her first full day and first time on the bus.

So Jon took some time off work and we took her together for her first day. She loved it.

Here she is at school...all smiles!

They started the day with a book...

At the end of the hour they took the kids on a tour and the teacher just talked to all the parents about what to expect and different things about the class. We were about done and we hear this crying from the hallway...it was Madi and two other boys...very upset. They were out on the playground and 3 kids got stung by bees...Madi got 2 stings...what a way to start. She's okay...as you can tell from the pictures she didn't swell too much...just sore. Lets just say I don't think she'll forget her first day of school! It was so sweet though...her teacher called just a little while ago to see how she was doing...so nice!



After school - Sage - a neighbor in Madi's class came over to play. We thought it might be good to introduce the girls a little more since they'll be riding the bus together a lot..they got a long great. Madi lined up the chairs for the picture! It was cute! So thats how our first day went! We'll see how I fair when the bus pulls away on Thursday!

Sitting up

So I walk in to get Elliot after his nap last Friday and look what I found! A knucklehead sitting up! So we moved the crib down....It's going way too fast! He is so close to crawling...basically he can get where he wants with an army crawl.

Here we are swimming over Labor day.

family pictures with the clarks

Mom Clark wanted to get a new family picture..which was a great idea. Our last one was missing a kiddo! I'll have to post the entire family one later when I get a copy from Dad's camera...but here are some others we took that day.

what a happy boy!

the boys!

the grandkids

snuggling with grandma

of course...guess who wants her picture with Elliot! :)

surprise!

All of our neighbors have a big wheel..and everytime their garages open up, Isaac runs right in and grabs their big wheel. So Target finally had a really good sale so we decided to buy him one. It took quite a few trips to Target to get it...first the store by us was out of them, so we got a raincheck. The raincheck said 3 other stores had some in stock, so the next day Jon went to the Target on 28th...well they were out too. So the next day he went to 54th street (called first and put it on hold) and got one! So he goes to put it together that night and its missing pieces! go figure. So now its all assembled and we only need one more piece to put the wheel on. So he calls Target and finally convinces them to let us just open another box and get the missing part with out returning it for another one and then reassembling! Then we ask to come tomorrow since its almost closing time and they give him this big stink about its not store policy to hold merchandise overnight! Well...finally they agreed and here you have one happy little boy who thinks we're cool!

feeding time

Check out the time...8:00 am. I guess Jon wasn't quite awake yet....I guess this is one way to feed him!

Elliot started solids this past month...he loves it all...well...he's still not sure about peas..but they're growing on him. Otherwise everything else he has loved..and lots of it all!

old yet new....

These pictures are back from the 4th of July..but i got them after I made that post and I couldn't resist including them....

Isaac loved being in this uniform...

all the neighbors on the firetruck.

Mommy and Elliot at the Whitecaps! yeah a picture with mom! Thanks Papa!

The kids singing

On the way to the mall I captured the kids singing Shout to the North....Isaac has a nice mouthful of food and Madi saw the camera....

One more song.

She has my voice too....

Libby Lu!

Well Madi and I headed to LIbby Lu this morning! Wow..thats a lot of pink in there! Elliot was not sure about all that! Madi had gotten a gift card from Aunt G for her birthday..so off we went. She walked around all day yesterday with their brochure telling everyone which hairdo and "Accessory" she was going to do! I finally convinced her to not have Hannah Hair..it would be too much like her own..so she finally agreed to this updo...I think she loves it.

Getting eye shadow on.

Happy face!

Have to have the headset on!

Mom & Madi!

After she was all dolled up they let her pick a song to dance too...guess what that was! Hannah Montana! I could not believe she got right into it!





Here we are calling Aunt G (prending) on the fluffy pink phone! Thanks G!@