Gabby's 1st Day of Preschool!

Gabby's first day at St. Francis and Clare went smoothly!  This school has a start time that is "early" for Gabby(7:45).  Not too bad really, however, she is normally used to sleeping in each day until 8:45/9ish.  So 7am for her came early...and the 6:30 alarm clock for me came early too!  However, much to my surprise, she woke right up and did not give Jeff or I much of a fuss when we got her ready for her first day!  We will see how she does when "early" comes tomorrow again.  

i can't believe how grown up Gabby is looking these days...

gabby was "over" the picture taking by this point.  poor thing...I think she figured she better just "cheese it" for Mommy and I would be out of her hair much faster ;).  afterall, she was ready to get to those puzzles, drawing and circle time for cryin' out loud

there she goes...she was ready for her 1st day of school! 

Gabby was excited to hear about all of the people that called to check in on how her first day of school went.  MaMa, Aunt Di, Grampy, Grammy and many friends!  She was a little upset with me after gymnastics because she was not able to talk to Aunt Di when she called in during gymnastics time. Apparantly, Gabby wanted me to come out on the mat and get her to talk to Aunt Di.  So cute!  On the way home from gym class she said, "i am so loved".  Yes you are child.  You will never know just how loved you are....

Aunt Jeanine also called Gabby on the evening of her first day of school to see how everything went.  Aunt Jeanine teaches 1st grade at St. Pius and they both started school on the same day!  So they compared stories from their first days.  Gabby had danced around the topic of what she actually did on her first day of school with me all day.  However, when Aunt Jeanine called, Gabby proceeded to tell her everything she did the entire morning at school.  Jeff and I looked at each other and smiled...glad to finally know what she actually did for three hours while she was away :).  When we hung up the phone, Gabby said, "i told "NiNi" everything I did because she was a teacher today".  I explained she is a teacher everyday at her school.  So funny!  Tonight at dinner she said, "NiNi is sooo special"!  That made my heart melt! 

xoxo, Katie 

Let's Play Catch Up....

I think we have been busy? I had to get the camera out of my purse and scroll back through the gazillion pictures in order to play catch up on the blog.  You know to be able to remember everything we did.  I guess that is what pregnancy brain does to you...I am forgetful a lot lately.  Or I just do really crazy things.  For example, when my mother in law calls the HOME phone and I answer, start to talk and before I know it I am half way down the street driving with the cordless phone against my ear!  She says, "didn't I call you on the home phone?"  Um...YES....as I very gently say goodbye and set the phone down on the console.  Or the other day when someone ran into me, literally, in the grocery store and I told them "I'm so sorry"!  Say what? I wondered why, after the fact, I apologized to someone for not watching where they were going and running into me.  Whatever!  It has been crazy around here.

We finished up library time for the summer a couple of weeks ago.  It is getting ready to start again in a week and a half.  Shows you how far behind I am on posting to the blog.

  I can only imagine how infrequent these posts are going to be when the baby arrives in November.  I hope I can update just as much, however, I think I would be crazy to make any promises. 

The county fair was in town.  We take Gabby each year to see the animals and eat plenty of fair food! This year she decided to interact with the animals more. 

She also loved watching the judges give out the prizes for the competitions.

We attempted the Tractor Pulls.  Daddy -L-OVES the Tractor Pulls!  It happened to be one of the hottest days of the year on this day and Gabby was fidgety in the stands so we ended up leaving early. 

The county fair ended one day and the Old Settlers Fair in Mooresville started the next.  Gabby got to ride in the parade with Grandad.  He is the Commander of the American Legion this year and Gabby got to ride on the convertible with him.  Don't they look like stars? 

He taught her how to parade wave...or 'princess' wave as Gabby calls it...ha ha!  She had a great time and MaMa and I had a great time watching them roll by.  Grampy stopped by also.  So Gabby and Grandad had plenty of support from the family!!!  We were sure to collect plenty of candy for Gabby in her bag so that she did not feel left out in the candy department!  We are going through the phase with Gabby where she HATES to be last.  She always has to be first, does not like people to "cut" in line, has to win every competition, etc.  Jeff loves this phase and wants her to have the 'always first' mentality.  I sort of think it could come back and bite her in the rear and wish we could somehow meet in the middle.  However, until then...first is good I guess!  And the bag of candy Gabby had at the end of the parade was top notch!!! 

Have I ever mentioned Maxwell, Gabby's Boyfriend?  This is him.

Well...the back of them.  Isn't he dreamy?   He and Gabby have been in gymnastics together for the past year and have a great time together.  They are two peas in a pod.  Unfortunately, Gabby tends to boss him around a lot.  Max buys into it, for the most part, and pretty much does what she says.  I finally captured a picture of the two of them. 

That's a rap...  I feel like we are caught up to the current.  More to come soon!  Gabby starts preschool at St. Francis and Clare on Tuesday!  Early mornings for us start soon!  7:30-11am...WoWzErS!  Just two days a week.  So not that bad, but definitely an adjustment considering that we don't wake up until 8:30 ish most days.  Very exciting though!!!   

Be back soon...
xoxo, Katie