Kira goes to daycare

Teeth!

Four teeth and no tears.  Just another reason Kira is the best girl in the world, or at the very least, in our house.

Kira wakes up this happy every single morning.  Her radiant smile and joyful laugh brighten up even the earliest of mornings, but since she is so perfect, that is rarely before 7am.

This guy slept until 8am!  He earned himself a big 'thank you' and some forgiveness for waking up at 5:15am on Saturday.

Sunday swim at Norma's

The ice cream man brought Max two gum balls surrounded by ice cream.

Max and Kira held a concert featuring, 'Jingle Bells'.  School just started and Max is already eager for Winter Break.

Sister beware

Max has a case of aggressive brothering these days, and he is not the least bit intimidated by local law enforcement. Kira is a wonderful sport- she takes the head bops and keeps smiling. 

If you have four teeth that are each .25% in- smile and drool!!!

All of Max's breakfast dreams came true- chocolate chip pancakes at Tot Shabbat with Ben and Hannah.

Max continues to take charge of dressing himself.  He is usually granted artistic freedom, however, un-matching basketball shorts and a t-shirt were not going to fly for Tot Shabbat this morning.  Max finally selected an ensemble that met his parentals' requirements- a collared shirt and "dressy shorts".  Matching was clearly not a requirement, but the handsome, "I'm a devil," smirk matches everything.

Kira is 10 months old!

Kira cannot even believe she is ten months old!

Surrounded by her favorite treat- mulch!

Playground fun 

I scream, you scream...we all sit silently while we eat ice cream!

Guess who finished their cone first?

KIRA!

This 10 month old bambino devoured every last morsel of this baby cone.

Max put an end to his dinasour pajama streak and opted for his baseball pjs tonight.  "I'm Derek Jeter!" he announced, followed by, "Take my picture of me as Derek Jeter!" 

Done and done. 

Spoiled by visits

Kira came to see mommy again!  What a great first week of work.

Silly stress ball play in the counselor office 

"Take a picture," Max instructed 

Smiley girl

Kira loved the swing today, even when Max wildly pushed her.  Unfortunately, his continued wild antics got him an early ejection from the playground.

Sadie and Tessa enjoyed Max's single moment of calm at the playground.  

Science at school- Max loves it!

Stripes and smiles 

Softest sister

"Kira is white blankey!"

All smiles for day two of school

Lunch date with my best girl and daddy

Max had another great day at school and there were zero tears at drop off. 

Back to school

Max started his new 'big boy school' today, while Kira spent some special alone time with daddy.  They had lots of fun and even visited mommy at work.  

Max was up so late last night that he had to be woken up for school in the morning.  The last time Max had to be woken up was.........

After some negotiation, Max agreed to wear something other than pajamas to school.  We have been talking about his new school all summer long, and visited last week so he knew what to expect.  Max was eager to go into the school, but once mommy left he was screaming mad.  Literally and physically.  After five minutes he calmed down and had a terrific day.  At pick up, two boys immediately reported that Max had so much fun, and they were right.  Three year olds are so smart! 

Max told mommy this evening that tomorrow he is going to laugh at school and love it and that mommy can, "Drop me off at school, but just for a little bit.  Like a minute or an hour and then come pick me up.  OK!!??"  

Best part of the workday!

After school at the pool!  Summer is not quite over yet!

Max was eager to lend Sadie some dry clothes after the pool.  Sadie looked so adorable dressed as the general from shirt to sneakers!

Waiting for daddy 

Easy like Sunday morning

...except instead of easy, it was crazy around here as usual, with our resident goof ball and his adoring and oh so tolerant sister.

Max did flips out of the jumper while Kira jumped in her walker.  

Mommy is so sad to leave this perfect girl to go to work tomorrow.  Kira gets an extra week of summer vacation with daddy this week and she starts school at Miss Miranda's next week.

Shines and sunnies to the grocery store

Max partied (and wrestled) all night (until 9pm, which is the same thing) at Des's house.  He lived up his first official "school night" of the school year.

So much fun!

We had such a fun day and spent almost every minute outside.  The weather
was gorgeous this morning so we headed to the farmers market as soon as it opened.

We snacked on zucchini bread by the lake.  Of course Max wanted to go on a paddle boat ride, so we went back after dropping Kira off at home for her nap.

Max walked around the market for a hour with his life jacket on, but the boat rental man never came.

Then we finally remembered another nearby lake with boat rentals (and ducks!).  Max looked for ducks the whole time and we only went passed the buoys a dozen times in search of them.

Snack at sea

"Look! It's a tunnel mouth! Haaaaa!" Max said when he saw this bridge on the lake.

Max has recently noticed his pre-cleft surgery pictures and says that he used to have "a tunnel mouth," as he laughs hysterically.

After a THREE hour nap, thanks to Dolphin Tale (mommy's new favorite 'miracle-sleep-inducing-movie' in the whole wide world), we headed back to Lake Fairfax to go to the water park.

Kira LOVED IT!!  She could watch kids play all day long and be so happy.

Kira went on her first water slide and she loved that, too!  Her face is squinty, but she definitely liked the slide and the splash.

Max went down tons of slides and spent a lot of time perfecting his swimming ["like a shark!"].

It was such a pretty day!

Morning hysteria cloaked in Christmas pajamas.