Boat time!

Ev, Grandmommie and Granddad go fishing!

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Status update and general notes

- Today was Ev's last day of K4.  It was field day and he had a fun time!  He starts kindergarten (public school, though still at the Montessori) on August 22.  Hopefully summer will mean sleeping in past 6:30!  After school today we purchased our inflatable pool for this year and some new shades for the stud.

- Grady started in his new room at Carolina Kids yesterday.  His new teachers are Ms. Kristen and Mrs. Ashley.  This room should be a lot more stimulating for him (puzzles!  new trucks!  new books!  new playground!), once he adjusts.  The first two days seemed to go okay aside from the crying at dropoff; he ate and napped well.

- Ev starts at Carolina Kids summer camp next Monday.  He's excited to go, and even started asking around the start of 2012 if he'd get to return this summer.

- Grady came home from his first day in the new classroom with a new phrase:  "right now."  All the way home it was "Mommy, I want my milk right now."  "Mommy, go that way right now."  "Mommy, I need a mento(s) right now."  He doesn't know what it means, but understands that it adds some type of emphasis to his request/demand.

- No sign of Ev's first adult tooth yet.

- We cleaned out the boys' dressers today.  Grady is in 18mo shorts, 18m/24m/2T shirts, size 5-6 shoes, 2T/3T socks, size 4 diapers.  Ev is in boys' small shirts, 4T/5T shorts, 12 shoes.  I wish I had noted what size his socks are....

- We cleaned out the baby stuff.  Infant carrier & base will go to the Palmetto Pregnancy Center next week for a needy family.  Some of the toys will go to Kylee and possibly be put on hold in case there's a baby boy Patton sometime.  The other toys, the celestial crib set and nursery lamp, high chair covers, etc. will go to Goodwill.  I am not sure what we'll do with the crib itself just yet....

- Tomorrow we tackle the toyboxes and bookshelves.

- Yesterday we harvested beans from the garden -- our first non-herb pick of the year!  We steamed them for dinner tonight. 

- All of the baby birds have been gone for a week or two.  The nest with the larger birds seemed to go its course naturally and I fully believe the babies left of their own accord.  The smaller birds, however, didn't seem to have many feathers the last time I saw them, and when I checked the nest after we got back from Memorial Day weekend, it seemed skewed.  :(

Tuckered

Saturday morning sweetness

Catching some Bob the Builder together before the day gets stayed.

Hello, summer evening

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