Bed for Bridge- why do we try?

Im not sure why we are considering buying bridge a nice new shiny white bed. She prefers the floor. What i mean is by that is she refuses to sleep in her new toddler bed. *sigh* ok- no arguments here-  i mean as long as she sleeps and i schedule her regular massages with the beloved family masseuse who cares right? 

Bridge..??? Where did you go?

Oh hey there, girlfriend.

Well- you look comfy and you're sleeping...so okay whatevs.

Preschool Open House

Wanted to get this in here before it totally passed us by! Been a busy week so I am a snidge behind. Trying to keep on track.

Anywho- we had an open house and Nora's preschool last Sunday. She got to show us around and of course enjoy a cookie or two. So cute! She loooooves school and her teacher- and we do too!

Jumping around so excited to show us her class.

Nora and Mrs. Ross.

She made a paper mache pumpkin. She loved paper macheing. I did too as a kid- but it will prob stay as a school activity.

Happy Owl Room girl. Who is this big kid I see in the picutre??!?! omg.

Sister wore her owl sweatshirt in honor of her visit to the owl room.

Cookies outside on a beautiful Fall Kansas day!

Swimmer Girl

Nora gets the most improved swimmer girl award. Last summer was painful after a scary incident at swim lessons that turned into a fear of the water most of the season.

This year by the end of swimming pool season- she was jumping off of a diving board (multiple times i may add) and loving it.

To keep up the momentum- we put her in another round of lessons that started today. Here's the leason in pictures:

Well it started with Nora falling asleep on the way there---dont worry her fan remained upright.

This was her face when she realized I didn't bring her goggles. 

This was her face after I showed her the previous picture and she realized she was being redic.

This was Nora practicing holding her breath.

And this is her in the water. She went facedown for 3 seconds (a huuuuge improvement) NOT crying- actually laughing/splashing and LOVING it! Hoorah!

Fall Fun!

We pumpkin patched it up this weekend! It's been great having P-chunk here. No captions on this one- just a day in pictures. 

First Haircut for Bridge!

It was getting out of control. I cut Nora's too early and said I wasn't going to cut Bridget's until she was 20- but I caved.

Off we went to get a snippet. I overpaid to have them cut about .1 inch off her head- but it does bounce a little bouncier and curl a little curlier- so they probably did something I couldn't have done. No tears and a lollipop at the end equals success.

Pre-cut. This is sometimes how Bridget smiles..so it really is pre-cut smiles. 

There is a TV in front of her. When a TV is on my kids zone- so that's a good thing when it comes to haircuts and other times when you just want your kids to zone out and tune out. 

An after cut french braid!

Bean got a trimmers too. So proud of her sister. 

Car Payment Poof!!!!

We officially own Patrick's car!!!! We made the last payment today. Feels good to wipe out debt. Woot!!!! We even paid it off 4 months early. So we are starting a car only bank account and saving the payment there to put towards a new car for me in the future.

Honk honk!

Nora Sleeping Part Two

More random acts of Bean Pod sleep...

Ipads have multiple uses. Putting your 4-year-old to sleep is the best function. 

Well this one is cheating a bit because I am pretty sure we are on our way back from a late night somewhere. But I like how she definitely needed her headband on. 

We went somewhere. I transfer her to the stroller to get whatever needs to be done, done. And she remains asleep. 

This is one of my favs. She fell asleep having a snack after quiet time. Too much noise in quiet time? But she like draped herself over the chair fell asleep. 

And then I moved her on the couch by Payton. Pay was all- um..what's up with Bean Bean?

More dressing up. More eating. More sleeping. 

Yes. She dresses up basically every day.

This is one of my favs since she was straight up playing and then bam! Sleep! come on- even her foot is in the castle. 

Same outfit. Different bow. Different day. More sleeping.