CHORES!

With the exception of putting away their own toys, Kendall and Owen like to help out around the house, and I am taking so much advantage of it! When Owen asked to help wash dishes, I was hesitant but since half of our dishes are plastic these days I figured, "what the heck." He scrubs and stacks the "clean" dishes up for me to put in to the dishwasher. He earns a quarter for his piggy bank every day that he helps.


Kendall has gotten in on the action. She's been helping with dinner. She either makes a salad or a dessert (sometimes edible, sometimes more for decoration.) Like her mommy, she has a hard time saving her money. Her last two quarters went right in to the Jay Jay the Jetplane ride at the Frontiers of Flight Museum. Oh well, she had fun and I enjoyed her pudding with strawberries and whipped cream!

Here are a few pictures from our September fun. Look for State Fair of Texas pictures in a couple of weeks. Kendall and Owen walked over to see them raise Big Tex on Monday. He has the biggest boots EVER!!!

Is she licensed to fly?

Grandma Besco's birthday cake - we decorated it!

Mommy doesn't think this is very safe...

She'll be walking any day now!

First Day of School

At last, the glorious day arrived - the first day of preschool. Kendall handled it like an old pro. And Owen, well he kind of handled it like and old pro, too, even though this was technically his very first day of "real" school.

We dropped Sabrina off at PDO. After several rounds of hugs and kisses we were off to The Science School at the Museum of Nature and Science. With lunch boxes in hand we maneuvered the mud puddles in the circular drive, found classroom A, and showing no fear or trepidation deposited the lunch boxes into cubbies and joined circle time. There were no tears. There weren't even any hugs for mommy! With a mixture of elation (I was about to have 3 1/2 hours of alone time) and sadness that none of my children seemed to missed me one bit, I was off to the coffee shop to sip caffeine and read a book (yes, it was as sinful as it sounds).

To my joy, Kendall and Owen were both happy to see me after school. I finally got my hugs and kisses. As usual, Kendall did not have much to say about what she did all morning but Owen was a complete chatter box -- "We had circle time, the teacher showed us around the room, we played outside, ate lunch, and then you picked us up!" And to top off a great first day of school, he saw Ms. Jill, his summer PDO teacher, when we picked up Sabrina and got to tell her all about it.

I managed to get a couple of pictures before school and one after.

On our way in to the building

Joining circle time - that's their teacher Ms. Heather

One quick shot after school