Turkey Day!

I know, I know. I said that I was going to keep up my blog. I said that I was not going to let it get away from me. I'm still trying. Promise.

Here's a quick post for you all that have missed them:

Kaden had a turkey come home from school. We were supposed to be creative and decorate it. We came up with the idea for an American flag turkey and it turned out ADORABLE!!! K-man did a great job cutting and gluing! He took it to school this morning, I am excited to hear what his teacher thought of his turkey!

K-Man, Hawaiian style

Kaden sang last night at school. He did such an excellent job! All the kiddos did. We first grade parents were quite thrilled! It's so fun to see all the pride on the parents' faces as they watch their babies!! Here are Kaden's many, many pics:
The state fish of Hawaii, the Humuhumukununukuapua, as colored by Kaden:

They sing a song about this fish and both Luke and Kaden can say it perfectly!

Michael ran both and schools' and our video camera:

Josie took this picture of her brothers while we waited for the performance to start:

Here is a video of the first song. The weren't singing as much as dancing. Pretty darn cute! I do have more videos but blogger will not load them. I promise, Momma, I will try again soon! Enjoy!!! Kaden's face is TOO adorable!

Big Girl Bed

Yesterday it became official. No more babies in the Harmon household...Josie is out of the crib and in her new Castle Bed! She was SO excited as Michael and I put it together. We had her try it out and she loved it, Josie hardly left her room yesterday evening! When it was time to go to bed she wasn't so sure. She played with the nightlight and kept putting more and more dolls and animals in her bed. She cried a little and I'm not sure what that was about. I found Josie in the hallway about 30-45 minutes later. I told her to go back to bed and she did. I don't know when she went to sleep but when I checked on her at 9:30 she was OUT like a light. This morning she came bounding out of her room VERY proud of herself. "I nigh-night Momma" she told me. Very proud. Goodness she is the sweetest thing! Here are a ton of pics I took, and yes Thaddeus I know they are basically the same but she is too beautiful not to post them all :)

Getting in for the first time:

"Smile Josie!"
Hold on, Mom's got to pull your hair back out of your face. "Smile again Josie!"
Daddy took this one:

It's time to get into bed, Luke wanted to help tug her in:
Happy Josie Claire:
Wait, I need some more stuff in bed with me. Come on WALL-E:
And here's a pic of Gabriel for good measure!

Silly Sleepers

I took these pictures last week when our A/C was still out. That is why my angel baby girl doesn't have anything on but her diaper (SO sorry Momma! I hate it too but it was just too darn hot!) The house cooled off to around 90 degrees at night. Ugh. It was SO not fun. I went to check on my babes as I always do and saw how Josie had filled her crib. I'm sure she just kept asking Gabriel to bring her more and more animals. I used to sleep with tons of stuffed animals too. Like mother, like daughter I guess:

When I looked over in Gabe's bed, I noticed he wasn't there. Michael and I went searching for him to find him in the living room behind and ON toys just sleeping away. You can't really tell in this picture but his head is way below his body. I can't imagine he was comfortable. Such a goof:

$2

Yep, it happened. I was right, I knew it would be quick. Kaden came home from school Friday with his other bottom tooth in a baggie. We forgot to put it under his pillow on Friday night so on Saturday Kaden saw his tooth bag sitting on the counter in the kitchen and asked me if the toothfairy was on vacation! HA! I said 'no, your tooth was just in the wrong place.' Well, under the pillow it went last night and this morning, TA DA! the toothfairy had left another dollar bill. Kaden is very proud of his 2 bucks.

Happy Birthday Momma!!!

Happy Day Momma! Hope your day is wonderful!

Here are a few pictures of us from my visit to STL back in July!

Mom and I at the All Star Fan Fest with the world's largest baseball---oh yeah, it's real! No seriously, it is:

At the waterpark before our night of SO much fun:

At the zoo:

Mom and I at the (coolest) ESPN Party, thrown at J. Bucks downtown before the Home Run Derby.
Mom and I AT the Home Run Derby! (thanks Jackie and Thaddeus :)

Mom and Josie at the play park, "matchy matchy, green squared" (yep, movie quote)

Outside of 5 Guys, Burgers and Fries. Yum!

It happened one night....

It happened last night. Kaden-man lost his first tooth! From out of nowhere both his middle bottom teeth were crazy loose. Had no idea, don't know how that slipped passed us but none-the-less they were. I knew one of them was going to come out in a day or two, the other has not even a week. Last night Kaden decided it was time to come out. We wiggled and wiggled, he pulled it down and back with tongue, out it came! He was a little upset at first, he didn't want to have a "broken tooth". We called Grandmom right away and he was a happier camper.

The tooth fairy brought him a dollar and he was (and still is) VERY excited about this!
Can't believe my babies are growing up so fast. :(

First Day of School :)

Can't really believe it. Summer is over. School has begun. I'm SO excited about this year. Luke and Kaden LOVE school so much it's easy to send them off. Gabriel has been ready for school since he turned 4. He was sure he'd get to start in January right after his birthday. He had to wait till August. He waited and today he went to Pre-K! I can't believe it. 3 kiddos in school! Where has the time gone I ask you?! I don't think any parents have the answer to that question!!!

Today all my babes woke up in GREAT moods! They were ready to head to the bus 45 minutes before it came! "We just don't want to miss it Mom." said Luke, over and over again! The bus came and the big boys got on. Josie, Gabriel, and I were waiting in the van to head off to Gabe's school across the way. We got to school right on time and Gabriel headed off inside by himself (his teacher waits at the door for all of you thinking how could I let my baby boy walk into school by himself!).

Josie and I headed off back to Luke and Kaden's school where I'm PTA President this year. I got some good work done. It's CRAZY just having one child with me, I kept feeling like I lost one somewhere. It was N*I*C*E, I have to admit!
We left around 10:45 to pick up my niece from her first day of Kindergarten! Aurora had a great time and the K teachers were dressed as pirates. Pretty cool if you ask me!

The girls and I went straight to get Gabriel from his class at his school. (Yeah, 3 different schools, thankfully they are not too far apart. Aurora will get out about 20 minutes before Gabe giving me plenty of time to get back to him!) Now we are home for lunch and Josie's naptime!

I can't wait until the bus comes this afternoon to see how the day went for Luke and Kaden-man. So fun!

The boys so excited about the first day of school:

Can you tell where Michael just got home from???!!! Here's Gabriel on the way to school:

My niece. We took this one for her Daddy! What a beautiful smile:
Gabriel's reaction when asked "How was his first day?"

I have some other pics of our trip to Gabriel's class on Monday. He has the same Pre-K teacher that Kaden did. We LOVE her so! She remembered our family of course. Kaden hugged her so tight, it was adorable. Gabriel was excited, he about talked her ear off. Between Gabriel and Luke no one else got a word in! They were super cute there and we all had fun:

The 4th

So obviously still playing catch up here. I took a few pics on the 4th, most didn't come out, it's hard to snap photos of fireworks! Michael's Mom and Grandma were still here visiting us and we all spent the day at James and Belva's house. Josie was sick (she had been to the ER and had croup AND some wheezing--this nastiness would spread to both Kaden and Gabriel. They were all pretty darn sick. I thought I was going to have to postpone our trip to STL to see my brother and sis-in-law and all my fam there...but thankfully they just needed some strong meds and it all worked out fine! But man they were SICK!!!) Got a little off my subject there--back to the fourth. James and Michael had both gone a little nutso at the fireworks stand and we had plenty at the house to keep us busy. I spent probably 3/4 the time inside with Josie, she didn't need to be breathing in the smoke and it was wet and spitting on us out there. The kids had a blast and loved watching their daddies run into the rain to light the fireworks. It was a wonderful night. Here are a couple quick pics.

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Luke's Birthday revisited

Luke turned 8! I know it's been a month but that is still kinda hard to take. 8, WOW! We had a another Superhero b-day party with a requested Scooby-Doo cake from Grandma Harmon. Here are the players:
The presents:

The cake: