Saturday, September 1, 2018

August Awesomeness

August started with Tyler and Jack off at Scout Camp. Sheridan decided she needed to make some chocolate-covered rice crispy hedgehogs to celebrate their return home.
Micah came down with what we thought was hand, foot, and mouth.
But then we were positive they were hives. He was covered head to toe with huge, itchy, red bumps.
He did not love being itchy, but he did love the view of "'Struction Behicles!" from the doctor's office! It turns out that he had erythemia multiforme, which is a fancy way of saying huge, itchy, red bumps that aren't hives, but also aren't contagious. 
Hooray for copays!

Eliza ate a lot of food in August. 
She makes a mess, but she's adorable!

Henry and Cole built this huge vehicle out of trios. They were, understandably, quite proud of their engineering feats.
The best part of August, though, was cousins visiting from New Jersey! 
We only got to hang out for 3 hours, but boy, did my kids love those three hours! These cousins are close to my kids' ages, so they have a blast together! Since they'd recently seen one another while we were out in NJ in July, they got straight to playing!
Melanie and Tyler clearly got the serious genes in the family.
It was only a short visit, but boy did my kids love seeing these cousins! Months later, Micah is still asking to play with "Webi" or "Go a New Jersey."

And then...
dun dun dun!
School started August 14th. It was too early!!!
Actually, the elementary started August 14th. Amelia was clearly delighted. How did Henry get SO OLD!?!
Amelia was actually very, very nervous about being in a class without her BFF. Fortunately, they ran into each other on the way to school, and all was well.
Henry was a tiny bit nervous, too, but he was mostly excited to start the school year.
The next day, Sheridan and Jack started school. HOW DO I HAVE 2 MIDDLE SCHOOLERS!?! 
Sorry, I'm still trying to process all the feelings! Jack is a giant, taller than me! Sheridan is almost 5 feet tall. They are growing up way more quickly than I have authorized.
Anyhow, with the biggest kids out of the way, Micah got straight to teaching Eliza how to pull everything out of drawers. She passed that skill with flying colors, and relishes cutting down the time it takes to empty a drawer on a daily basis. 
Who am I kidding? She practices that skill multiple times a day.
Finally, over a week after the bigger kids started school, Cole jumped into Kindergarten! He was so excited, I thought he might explode from all the feelings. Lots of mornings, he does explode from the feelings.
Fortunately, he has a few big siblings to teach him the ropes.

Now, lest you think life is boring with 5 of my 7 in school, Micah still puts on shows for Mom. This is his Taylor Swift act.
Micah also teaches Eliza all about Batman while the others are gone.

Tyler's Grandpa had an art display up in the Murray City Hall in August. So many of his favorite pieces were up on display for the month.

We also celebrated sixteen years of marital bliss in August. We stuck close to home to celebrate. Yay, Provo!
Another fun visit was with Tyler's freshman year roommate and his family. We got to have the over for dinner, but the kids were having so much fun together that they joined us for Amelia's first soccer game of the season! (And then we met up with them again at Thanksgiving Point a few days later.) It was so great to get to know their family!

Amelia's first soccer game was against the other neighborhood soccer team! 

Cole's first soccer game and he was brimming over with excitement! Seriously could not contain himself.

Micah loved going to Cole's games, because he got to play on the big slides. Seriously, that kid is fearless.
August was busy and crazy and mostly wonderful!