First day of school.

August 17, 2016.

First day of 2nd grade for Madelyn and first day of kindergarten for Sawyer. We have two elementary schoolers. This is such a milestone for our family. I still have to pinch myself to believe it.

I did not attend the post first day drop off Boo Hoo / Yahoo event for kindergarten parents. I had a run to attend to! But, I also wasn't sure whether I was a boo hoo or a yahoo...I think a little of both.

Here's to a good school year for everyone!

Day I'm-not-sure-how-many.

We have a pumpkin!

Actually, my garden records indicate Sawyer and I planted these seeds on May 8. So, it's probably close to 95 days.

The longer version of the story is that Sawyer and I planted six pumpkin seeds on May 8. On June 6, all six had come up but two were still barely seedlings. That day, we had a massive hail storm which wiped out most of our garden including all our pumpkin seedlings except these two.

They're my few survivors and now we've got a pumpkin! Yay!

On a side note, I will probably get no zucchinis this year. Ugh...

Banner day for Sawyer.

After getting stung yesterday twice in the neck by a wasp at the Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield, sweet Sawyer had a much better day today. In fact, you could say he had a banner day! He...

a) Received his kindergarten teacher assignment. And, it's official. He has Mrs Murray! We are so excited for him and know he's going to have an awesome year. (See previous post re: Mrs Murray.)

b) Leveled up AGAIN in swimming lessons! He swam 25 yards backstroke all by himself and passed up to level 6. Way to go, my little buddy!

c) Attended a LEGO Mini Build with Madelyn this afternoon at the LEGO Store. They each built a cute little apple complete with worm, or in Madelyn's case a caterpillar because caterpillars are less gross than worms.

Happy days all around. Hope yours was good, too!