First day of school 2011

 First day of 4th and 2nd grade, very enthusiastically posing for pictures before school:

Em:

Jo: 

Jake:

The next four pictures will be used to show the difference between 2nd grade girls and 4th grade boys.  Here you have Emmy:  "Yes Mom, I'd love for you to walk me to class.  Sure Mom, you can come in and take my picture.  Well of course Mom, you can have a kiss goodbye."

Next you have Jacob and Jonah: "Oh my God Mom.  Seriously?  I'm not even going to close the door.  STAY IN THE CAR!  Do not even walk me TO the school, much less IN it.  I can find things myself.  PUT THE CAMERA UP! DRIVE AWAY!"

"Just look at her Jacob, she won't go away until you look at her.  Then run." 

That's pretty much it.  That's all I got.  They change schools and suddenly turn into grown men. What's up with that?!  

On a positive note, they both say that they like the new school and their teachers.  Jonah says it's kind of busy because they change classes now, but I bet it makes the day go by fast.  Plus they have art class at this school.  They haven't been yet, but they're really looking forward to it.  Emmy likes school and she mostly always has positive things to say about it.  Next up is Caleb.  He starts mother's day out the day after Labor day.  I got him some new clothes so he can look pretty sitting in time out.  God help us.

Underwater camera beach pics

None that are actually underwater, but it takes nice out of the water pictures too.  I didn't take too many of these, the kids enjoy taking pictures with it too and since I don't have to worry when they drop it in the water, I let them have at it.  These are from the weekend that we went to Galveston.  The next post will probably be back to school related.  WHERE DID THE SUMMER GO?!!!

Caleb's first time crabbing. He didn't catch anything because he pulls the string back fast enough to rip a crab's claws off.  He had fun trying though.

Ew, dirty, gross.

Come plaaaaaaaaaaay - Schlitterbahn, bahn bahn bahn

I love that commercial.  We did play this past Monday, for nine and a half hours.  My muscles still don't like me today. 

We bought an underwater digital camera this year because it's impossible to get pictures otherwise.  I LOVE it!  The pictures are Caleb heavy at first because I had him (and the camera) for the majority of the day while the "big" three went with Basil.

Maybe my favorite Caleb picture of all time.  I've said that before though, and I'm sure I'll say it again but I just love this picture.

Super good timing with this video.  Emmy and I were on one tube waiting for a big wave and Basil and Caleb were on another. I thought I'd see how Caleb handled it. He did alright, but Emmy and I were another story. I turned the camera off when she slapped it into the water because "she fell over and couldn't breathe."  Oh the drama.

We climbed all the way to the top of this family slide and when we got to the top Caleb did NOT want to go on it.  He cried and cried, and I felt bad but I wasn't about to take him back down all of those steps, so we slung him in and went down.  I filmed because I thought he'd scream the whole way and I'm mean like that.

I'm with Emmy though.  "Way too much steps."  Right on, sister.  Our place is in the lazy river.