The Brad Wave

It must be in the genes.

Wallet

So my wallet needed to be retired.  Besides the 10-year-old dirt, the coin compartment clasp would no longer close.  After spilling change into my purse for the umpteenth time, I finally went shopping for a new wallet.  I found one on sale.  Red.  Leather.  After 20 minutes of indecision, I presented it to the cashier and begrudgingly forked over the cash from my old wallet.  I brought it home and Edie helped me transfer everything over.  (She happily adopted the old wallet and immediately took it "shopping.")  Well, that was one week ago.  Yesterday I grabbed my clean, new, red leather wallet from my purse, and the coins spilled everywhere.  The coin compartment seam has ripped out.  I guess the moral of the story is, put your coins in your piggy bank.

Aunt Sarah says she's telling a secret!

Kids Say the Darnedest Things!

While sitting in the automatic car wash last month, Easton and I had the following conversation:  
Easton:  Good thing we're not on a motorcycle.
Mom:  You wouldn't do this if you were on a motorcycle.
Easton:  Unless you were an idiot.
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When Edie woke up yesterday morning, she sat up and exclaimed, "When I get big I'm gonna have big boo-boos like Mommy's!"

Bumbo

My new chair! Ellie Grace at 4 months.

Off to kindergarten!

We have entered a new phase of our lives...The School Years. Our schedules will now be dictated by the school calendar and our pocketbooks emptied by school fundraisers.

Easton was all smiles as he headed off to his first day of kindergarten. We carpool with the neighbor kids, three of them, and E is so excited to be at school with them this year. As we left his classroom, Larry and I wondered if we should feel more nostalgic. I asked Larry, "Was that hard?" He responded, "Dropping him off at daycare while he clung to my legs and screamed was hard. This was not hard."

Easton has set out to become the "smartest person in the world!" Good luck.

I'm going to school, too!

Edie's first day of "pre-school." She marched right in, dragging that wheelie backpack, and never looked back. When she realized that Mommy and Daddy did not stay, she was not quite so excited. She wants to be a "big girl" so badly!