Tuesday was Jackson’s first day of preschool. He loves preschool!

I was lucky to get one picture, because just after this one I asked Lacey to stand by him and the batteries died. Fewh! I’m glad I got this one!

We celebrated Micah’s birthday last Wednesday. Birthdays are so fun with little kids. They make everything extra exciting. Jackson, Lacey and I got talking about a week before his birthday and I wanted to know if there was anything special they wanted to do for Dad’s b-day. I suggested maybe they could take him out to breakfast like he usually does for their birthdays, but Jackson didn’t think that was a great idea. He thought Dad would like chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast – so that’s what we had.  Then Micah got to open a few presents… garments and socks, then off to work for him.

At lunchtime we met him at Joe’s farm grill. It was delicious and even the kids ate well. We also had to check out the bathrooms there, that was Lacey’s favorite place.  That evening, we had the requested dinner, shish kabobs/grilled chicken/hamburgers and finally we got to the pie I’ve been trying to figure out. I decided since I’ve made a few banana cream pies for Micah in the past and he obviously couldn’t remember them I must not have had the right recipe. So I combined a couple of recipes and came up with this:

I think it looked great. It tasted great too, but I added just a little bit of cinnamon and nutmeg that one of the recipes called for, so it wasn’t exactly the good ole’ banana cream pie Micah was thinking of. I thought the consistency was perfect though, so next time I’ll just leave out those two extra ingredients and I think I’ll have a winner of a banana cream pie.  No complaints from the birthday boy or the kids though.

He got to open a few more presents, a couple of nice shirts and 3 little soccer balls, whistles, a water bottle, etc, so he could be all decked out for his first time coaching soccer! He’s now officially the coach of “The Cheetahs” (Jackson is so happy to have his dad be the coach!).

Micah got several phone calls, messages, and cards. It was a great day indeed!

Lacey had her first accident-free day today. Woohoo! She’s been consistent about 1 accident a day up until now. I’m glad we’re making progress with this process! She calls underwear her Wunderwears! Sounds like something a super hero would wear, don’t you think? Well, now you know – Lacey certainly is our little super in Wunderwears!

“Once upon a time, there was a boy, a little boy, running in the street. He didn’t look for cars but then a car was coming. It saw the kid boy and it got out of the way but then there was a snake, a little, little snake. It was red like this. But it was a really big snake. The boy was still alive, but the car got smushed by the snake. Then comes the biggest rainbow.”

Jackson is a great story teller – he always has a story that goes along with his art work. I love it – I just wish I wrote more of his great stories down.

Lacey has had several good days of potty training. We are yet to have a perfect day, though 1 time of clean up a day sure beats changing diapers all the time. She was so excited to get her princess and hasn’t put it down since. We even let her bring it to church on Sunday (she earned it right before we went), and I thought she was much better behaved at church than usual.

Rachelle has been making the cutest “happy” noises lately. I am enjoying it so much! I attempted to capture these great squeals of joy, but she got distracted every time I pulled the camera out. This was the best I got:

She really is a sweetie. She just really isn’t a fan of lots of people. I love this little girl!

She’s getting really close to crawling!

We went to the splash pad last week with some family! We had such a great time. Fun, Fun, Fun! Jackson and Lacey loved it!

Sadie

Griff

Brandon and Anna

Lacey

DJ and Jackson

Millie

On Wednesday evening we had a really good rain! My favorite! We had a ton of fun playing out in the rain for a while.

Soaked and going out for more!

Enjoying the rain

Today we had a little “cookies and milk” party.

We had 4 babies here that were all born within about a month of Rachelle, their siblings and moms, and couple other friends. The cutest little baby that was closest in age to Shell was about half her size… literally! I didn’t take any pictures of the guests, but we had a great time just chatting and playing.

Another fun week