September 2012: Week Four

Seriously, where did September go??  It's truly Fall now & I do love Fall; however I dislike Fall too because it means Winter is right around the corner & I loathe cold weather & gloomy skies.

 

Thankfully, Twin is so windy (can you really believe I even said that?!?  It will be the one & only time, I promise) that we have had fairly "enjoyable" skies lately, meaning we haven't had much forest fire smoke. 

 

The week started with preschool co-op at Vanessa's house, which went okay, but not as well as last week's co-op.  Cashe apparently struggled with wanting to focus & do his schoolwork & was far more interested in playing/arguing with Ms. Vanessa.  Lovely.

 

Because there was no Mom's group at church this week, I was able to go to yoga, ... & spin & pilates & body pump.  I made it to the gym 8 times this week!  A FULL workday of exercise!  Glo & I grabbed the new schedule one morning & circled every class we're going to take until we have rockin' bodies. ... Hopefully our ambition lasts longer than just a week!

 

Tuesday, we had a playdate with Alexis, Selah & Asher.  We had a lot of fun & Alexis & I had some great fellowship & good prayer time together.  Praise the Lord for crossing our paths.  She is such a great blessing to me & has such a great, uplifting demeanor that I need sometimes when it comes to parenting ... or just life.

 

Wednesday & Thursday we had our usual BSF routine.  This week, I started teaching in my regular class, which will be Infants & Toddlers this year.  It was so much fun!  The kids are just so sweet & so relaxing at that stage in life.  They're so small & harmless ... it's when they turn 2 & they run circles around you LITERALLY that you start pulling out your hair & wondering where your sanity & energy went.

 

 



 

Taking a breather after wrestling.

My iPad has now been taken captive -- Cashe's new 'treat' is to play with it & he has learned a lot about shapes & matching.  Although I'm not totally sold on the iPad solely teaching Cashe anything & everything, yay for technology.

He now knows what a 'crescent' is. 

Naptime this week has been much needed this week with all of our activities. 
Cashe was insistent on sleeping with 'Bear' a time or two.
(I have to pin 'Bear's' arm in the slats of his bed so he doesn't smother the poor child though.)

One night after Pilates, I went to pick up Cashe at the Kids Klub & they were playing with shaving cream.
Glo was with me, so she coerced me into going in & playing too!
What fun!

I finally scheduled an appointment to get my "Fall hair" done.  Yay!
Afterwards, we went out for Mexican & Cashe ate at least an entire bag of chips or more.

Daddy went to Jackpot one night, so Cashe & I went Halloween costume shopping. 
After much debate about what he should be, we settled on a shark ...
& then he refused to take the thing off.
We went for a walk along the canyon & got all sorts of comments. 
He was quite the celeb!

Then we had the Bishops & the Gotts over for football.
Here Cashe is invading the girls' drawing time.

Zade was somewhat interested in drawing too, so he joined them.

Then Glo & her hubby, John showed up just as I was capturing pix of the kids, so I took their pic too!

Then we headed to the park & the big girls took charge & played with the boys so Bekah & I could relax.

We had a fabulous week ... full of friends, fun & laughter.