First Day of Preschool

I officially go to school now- Preschool! Our first month we are studying colors, and so the first day I wore my red shirt. It says "Hang Ten" and is from Hawaii, which Peter keeps telling Mom and Dad to hang ten, which is super cute. Anyway, my first day went really well. I hardly say bye to Mom and Dad. As soon as they open the door, I put my stuff in my cubby and I'm off playing with all my new friends with hardly a goodbye. Today was my second day, which featured the color yellow, so we went on a nature hike and picked yellow flowers. I was also in charge of opening the doors for my classmates, so I felt extra important. I think I am really going to like this school! Since Pete is potty trained, some days he will be able to come with me too, but right now he is having fun with just Mommy and Daddy (since Dad's been on vacation this week).

It rained the first day of school, but I was well prepared. When it is nice out, they have a super cool roller coaster toy to ride in their playground. Awesome!

Happy Labor Day

We headed up to Gooseberry Fall's State Park today. We had such a fun day! We packed a picnic and ate when we got there, then went on a super cool hike and searched for agates on the beach too. On our way back home, we stopped in Two Harbors for ice cream at DQ, and actually sat by a fire while eating our cones. Never done that before! But it felt good, because it was only in the low 60's up there. But it was a super beautiful day, and perfect temp for a hike. Both Peter and I fell asleep on the way home, but when we got up from our naps, we took another hour long hike at our house to go check out the new bridge and hiking trail on Skyline Parkway. We had a really good time! On the way home, I collected worms that I found and put them in my pocket. But I made a home for them with dirt and grass, so they are happy now. We ate broccoli from Aunt Shelly's garden (lots of it, yum!) and mac and cheese and grilled elk steak. We had such a good day! Hope you all had a good Labor day too!

 Peanut butter jelly sandwiches, apples, chips and cookies make a good lunch!

I am very good at balancing on rocks now, although Mom was nervous, but only because she didn't bring any spare shoes in case mine got wet! I was careful though!

Happy Marriage to Butch and Melissa!

My Mom's cousin Butch married Melissa on Saturday. Congratulations you two! They have a boy, Landon, who we would play with when they lived in Duluth. Melissa would babysit me and Peter, but then they moved! We wish they could move back so we could hang with Landon more. He's my buddy. We had fun dancing and wrestling at the party. Peter had fun lining up all the crayons. Good boy Pete. It seems like the Chicken dance song couldn't even coax him onto the dance floor. He was pretty serious about getting every last crayon to be in his perfect line up.

End of Races

We had our last running race of the season at Park Point Park last Wednesday. There was a big barbeque afterwards, that Texas Roadhouse catered. Delicious! We brought home shirts and medals. Dad may have picked out the wrong size shirts, but they make comfy pajamas, so that is ok.

We had a photo shoot the next morning to show off our medals! Next year we will be way faster, and I will be in a different race division from Peter because I will be so much older!

We are CUTE!

Peter is wearing big boy pants. He has been for about a month now, and doesn't even need diapers at night! He is doing great! Here he is using his underwear as a holster for his gun. Good thinking Pete!

I am so cute! Do you like my jellyfish shirt? Or my pirate hat?

We had a great bonfire with Aunt Shelly last week. It was a huge fire!

Can you see me?

Need the shades because the fire is so bright!