Finally, an update!!!

So, it has been quiiiiiiiite a while since I have blogged. Like, 9 months ago. Man, life has been busy lately. I started watching two kids in the afternoon, starting last January. And honestly, it took a lot of my time, was a little stressful and it was hard to have much free time. When I did have free time, I just wanted to sit down and relax. Then summer came, Dan was off for a bit, we had a lot of fun. He taught summer school this year, which was nice for the extra money, but sure made our summer go a lot faster. We got to go up to WA for a week for my family reunion. That was a ton of fun, and so good to see all my siblings. Anna and Alex had a blast with their cousins.

Life is starting to get back into its routine, so I thought I would actually write a blog post, though I don't know how many people actually check my blog anymore.

So the big news lately, is that Anna started kindergarten!!! She turned five this summer, we had a princess party for her. Here is a picture of the cake I made for her. She loved it!

Here she is on her birthday. She did this pose all by herself. :)

So, anyways, she's all big and grown up. 

She did very well her first day. I knew she would. Luckily, she's never had a problem adjusting to new situations like that. She does go to all day kindergarten, so she is pretty tired when she gets home and can be kind of cranky. I got her transferred to a better school, than the one we were charted for. It's a bit of a drive for me, but not too bad. However, there are no buses around here, so everyone has to drive their kids to school. So parking is kind of crazy. I have to leave 25 minutes early, just to park a few blocks away and walk her to school. That's not much fun, but oh well. Her school also starts very early, 7:50 for kindergarteners. So I now have to set my alarm and get up early! I'm not used to that. Haha.

I made this sign for her first day. I told her to pick it up and this is what she did for the picture. 

She was so excited to go!

All ready to go! She has a Hello Kitty backpack, I got at a garage sell for $2. It's in excellent shape! There was a small tear, that I just sewed up. 

She is really into My Little Pony, so we got her a My Little Pony lunchbox. She loves it!

Daddy and Anna, walking to her first day of school.

Me and Anna, waiting our turn to go into her classroom.

Daddy and Anna waiting.

Tomorrow will be interesting. Dan is starting back at work. And it will be the first day of just me and Alex. He's doing pretty good with his only playmate gone for the whole day. He just wants to play with me the whole time now! It will be a bit of an adjustment for us. I'm looking forward to having one on one time with him, but it's going to be tricky to teach him to do his own thing for short periods of time, while I do things or just need a break. I need to plan playdates for him, and activities that we can do or go to.

I'm also going to start potty training him next week. He'll be three in a few months, so I think the time has come for him. Though I really have no idea how this will go! I think he's going to have many more accidents than Anna did.