Knock Knock!

Several years ago I remember learning a joke from Brad. It goes something like this:

Brad: hey noel! i have a great knock knock joke!

Noel: oh really? let's hear it!

Brad: ok, you start!

Noel: ok, Knock Knock.

Brad: who's there?

Noel: uh... uh... HA! so funny!

Fast forward to yesterday afternoon. After a crazy, stressful,faith-trying, beautiful Sunday of church and a fun afternoon of family bickering,fighting, yelling, togetherness, brad and i had collapsed onto the couch with a sunday movie. The kids were all playing together in their rooms and traveling out to the living room every once and a while to check on mom and dad.

Then SB comes out and tells us that they've prepared a show for us! In a very grown up manner instructed us to one at a time come sit and discuss our options with her. would we like to go to the boy's room for a show, or to her room for drawing? i chose the show and brad chose the drawing... which ended early so everyone could join us for the show. Now, this isn't unusual. SB will usually come up with things on sundays, even when we have people over, and have everyone come to her room for "centers", or a "discussion" or lesson time ect. She is very much a big sister and first born (brad just calls it bossy, but i have NO idea where she gets it from ;)

So there we are, myself and brad sitting just inside the door way, tj and k sitting right in front of us. SB setting up the show as so:

After a few moments of setting up she looks up and asks, are you guys ready?

We say YES with sheer enthusiasm. she then walks to us and says"Enjoy your show!"

and then begins to exit the room, leaving us wondering for just a moment as to what has just happened. Brad and I look at eachother and just lose it! HA! we are laughing so hard that we are BOTH crying and gasping for breath. after a few minutes SB comes back and is confused as to why we are both in hysterics and demands to know what is so funny... which just makes us laugh even more and harder. After we calmed down and discussed what happened we both said that instantly we thought of "THE" knock knock joke from so many years ago..... ahhhhh. such a funny child. brad says she gets her humor from him...

i say, true.

day 2 of first grade

So don't get used to this, posting 2 days in a row, thing :)

this is how tj feels when sb leaves in the morning for school

He's just lost without her... jk, he and k have tons of fun too!

but they really are all very close. :)

For today's hairstyle, we kinda went with a spunky do'....

brad dropped her off today and as he walked her in a mom stopped him and asked if he did her hair. she really liked it?  idk if that's a compliment or not,

 but like i said, we went for spunky :)

i only wish i had (dare is say it??!?!?!?!) more bows!!!!

oh and she loved her first day of school.  she has her same fantastic teacher that she had in kindergarten, and they're in the same room, so there's not much change. 

 One big change actually is that she will have spelling tests now every friday... any ideas on how to study for those everyday?

first grade!

WELL, that summer went by way too fast! only 9 weeks! i feel gyped...

this was sb's first day of first grade.

She wanted her hair in curls but failed to inform me of her wish until it was bedtime, so i tried the curling iron in the morning... poor girl, she didn't get my hair. by the time i was finished with the right side, the left side had already fallen out. but she sho' is cute anyways :)