Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Pictures from school (and a few more)

Jennifer's teachers have been very kind to send us pictures of her at school so I thought I would share them with you all. The first picture is of Jennifer dressing up during center time. This is one of Jennifer's favorite activities to do at school. In fact when we were there last week for an open house this was the first thing Jennifer wanted to show Bill and I. She put on a pretty purple dress and then showed us the rest of the room. Jennifer has a notebook that comes home with her each day that tells us what she did at school and today it said that she was very excited because they put new clothes out for dress up! Isn't she just beautiful in that dress?! The second picture is a picture from the first day of school. Jennifer looks tiny compared to the boy beside her but part of that is because he is four. The last picture from school is my favorite. Jennifer is in the "teacher" chair reading books to the kids. The one teacher told us that Jennifer will get a book climb into the chair and the boys in her class will put blankets on the floor in front of her and listen to her "read"! It just makes me laugh. She will also sit in the teacher chair and pretend to do calendar with the kids. I think someday she is going to be a teacher! She will be fabulous!
















We think Jennifer should be the new spokesperson for Cheerios! What do you think, she would be great wouldn't she?

Jennifer and Bill spending a little quality time together working in the basement. If you ever need any help on a project Jennifer is great and she doesn't charge much, usually a sucker will do.Sunday night is popcorn night in our house and as you can see it is one of the best things in the world. Jennifer makes us laugh each week as we get ready to make popcorn. She walks around the house signing popcorn, wants to get the popcorn bowl down and get the blanket out. It really is the little things in life that are worth while. If only we would all get so excited about having popcorn!




Thursday, September 11, 2008

More pictures

We just got high speed internet at our house! So I thought I would post some more pictures of our summer.Here are a couple of pictures of Jennifer in Florida. She loved the swimming pool! There was no fear at all, she would walk in the water until she couldn't touch anymore and still want to keep going! She would jump off the side, sometimes before I was ready to catch her. Jennifer also loved the beach. I wasn't sure what she would think of the waves coming up and getting her but she thought it was great.Her is Jennifer washing her car, while we wash our cars. She had her own bucket of water and her own sponge, she probably did better on her car than Bill and I did on our cars!

We went to the Iowa State Fair this year, this was our first time there since Jennifer was born. Jennifer did the "Helping Hands on the Farm". It is a cute little farm setup for kids to go around. They plant a vegetable, as you can see Jennifer doing in the second picture, then they go from station to station getting different things and at the end they get a "dollar" to buy something with. Jennifer of course chose chips! She looked pretty cute in her apron and hat!This is just a cute picture of Jennifer while we were playing at the park one evening.

Jennifer is continuing to do well at school. When I drop her off she still kind of plays shy and pretends she dosen't want to stay but once I leave she if fine. I know she has a great time. When I pick her up and ask her what she did at school she always signs the word play several times. It is very sweet. Speaking of school Bill starts school in a few weeks too. He is starting his masters program for Children and Family Ministries. Most of his work will be done on line but at the end of October he will be gone on campus for two weeks. He got his books ealier this week and it is a lot of reading! Bill joked that he has read maybe two or three in the course of a year or two and now he has to read several books in ten weeks! He is very excited to get started though. That is a little bit of what is happening with the McLeland's and you can check more often now for pictures and updates!