New Beginnings…

Well, it’s the start of a new school year and a whole year of new beginnings for our little family. A Bird started 1st grade and so far is loving it, she is also cheerleading for the first year so there are a lot of firsts for her and us this year.

On the first day of school she chose to wear an outfit that she picked out herself while she was school shopping with my father. She has a sense of style that is all her own, she wore a pleated khaki skirt, with a t shirt that was covered with a denim vest, that’s right my little girl is bringing denim back so dust off your White Snake jean jackets, because they will be hip again, maybe…. a big maybe.

She is enjoying cheering but it is our first experience with a “team sport”, so we didn’t realize what a time commitment it really was. She cheers for the flag football team, so before school started she was practicing 3 nights a week for an hour and a half, now that school and the games are starting she practices 2 nights a week with a game on Sunday morning. I guess I didn’t realize that at this age they would be drilling them so much, but she seems to enjoy it. It has causes some stress around here as both L Bird and I are running on practice nights, but it’s a short term deal, the season is over at the end of October, so we just have to muscle through a another few weeks.

This is a big year of firsts for Nat too, she will be 9 months in a couple of weeks. It seems like she is a couple of weeks in front of where A Bird was developmentally at this age. She is spitting, sputtering, jabbering and has turned out to be quite proficient at crawling and squealing. She is pulling herself up onto everything and you can’t get away from her now. If you go to the bathroom, you hear a “thump, thump, thump” of her crawling on the hardwoods after you, then the banging of tiny fists on the bathroom door and squeals and spit flies until you come out. She loves A Bird, she follows her everywhere and routinely laughs at  A Bird’s antics.

Other than that not much is going on, the house is still on the market, things are still stressful, but life goes on right? Life goes on, one day at a time whether we are stressed or not. On that note, I have a crawling baby that is starting to get grouchy and two other ladies that need some help waking up, so grouchy pants, Linus and myself have some work to do. Wish us luck!