She’s showing me how much she has grown.
Don’t you love the piggy toes peeking out?
Katriel
Daddy Fun Day
Daddy took a half day while Mama took Marie to soccer in Elmira.
Daddy, Tabitha, Johanna and Katriel headed over to Long Acre Farms for a few hours of silly fun.
Of COURSE fried cakes!
They bounced themselves silly; Marie won her game. And fall marches on.
More Friday Fun
I was happily surprised to hear that for the month of September RGH employees can visit the Strong Museum for free. We dropped Marie off at MOPS to babysit, and Johanna, Katriel, Tabitha and I headed to the museum. It was plenty busy, but not painfully so. We spent FORever in the mini-Wegmans. And we ricocheted around the museum like every other family does.
She wrote that cursive Katriel herself!
We went back to Wegman’s after lunch in the car.
Look what someone wrote on the board before we got in here!
I think I was the oldest mother in the place. Heh. I was younger than plenty of the grandmothers!
We peeled ourselves out of there at 2:30 P.M. so that we could be home in time to take Nigel to work. It was a very full, very fun day.
Sweets from Stewart
Stewart has been crazy busy. He is working 30+ hours a week at two different jobs, and school has resumed. He’s tired of hearing us say how much we miss him, but we don’t mean it as an accusation. They just genuinely miss him.
When we woke up this morning, Stewart had left treats for each of us on the table.
Later, Katriel and Johanna decided to search through the dress-up clothes. Katriel was delighted to put together a whole lion costume!
Curls and cuts
Sometimes you wear the curls and sometimes the curls wear you.
Hanny was due for a haircut. Actually, both girls got a bit of a trim.
First Day of School–homeschool version
Friends invited us to join them at the beach to celebrate “First Day of Not-School.”
We’d never been to a lake beach and I’d always wanted to give it a try. Although it poured buckets as we looked for the place, the skies cleared and we had a lovely time.
I’m shy on photos, but that’s because we were all having too good a time to take many.
I definitely want to do this again! Sadly, it will have to wait until next year at this point!
Out with Nan.
Nan took the girls out for a treat while youth group met here.
They look quite pleased.
Throwing stones.
Matchy-matchy…
Katriel’s friend Maddie approached her as she arrived to church last week with a dress identical to the one she had on. She had obtained two dresses from hand-me-down sources that matched. She asked her mom if she could give one to Katriel so that they could be “matchy-matchy.” Katriel was delighted by the idea and this week they got to make that happen.
Dayspring Disciples 