Learning to read

Claire has started a reading class called Head Start to Reading. Today was her third time and she came home with this sheet of sentences containing the 7 words she has learned so far. It is amazing to watch her just go through the entire sheet without much struggle! Our little girl will be reading books to us before we know it!

Always doing something!

 Ta-da! Look at me Mom! No hands!

 Being silly together!

Claire loves to help with EVERYTHING...so I decided to put her to work!

Caught Claire doing hopscotch in the driveway. She surprised me with how well she can 

coordinate her feet. She must get that trait from her father!

 Adorable when these two kiddos get along so well!

 Time for trampoline tricks!

Working on writing before preschool this morning!

Park play

We went to the park with our neighbors the other day. It is finally starting to cool off a little bit and is now tolerable to be  outside for a while. The kids had so much fun together and ended up playing for over 2 hours! It is so interesting to listen to their conversations...I have a feeling we have one strongly opinionated child on our hands!

Our busy little girl

 Waiting for mom and dad to come "check out" in her store

 Who doesn't love an ice cream cone on a warm fall day?

 Heading onto the soccer field...looking tough!

 Saying the pledge before the game starts. Still working on getting Claire

to get involved in the game but this was only her second game. We are hopeful

that by the end of this season, she is more active in the game. Time will tell.

Claire and Daddy getting ready for a race down the sidewalk... 

Ready, set....GO!

Back to everyday life

A few more pictures taken before G-Ma and Grandpa left for home. Just found out they made it back home safely, praise God! This morning when Claire woke up the first thing she did was open the door to G-Ma and Grandpa's room to check on them and they were gone. We are so thankful for the time we did get to spend with them here.God has blessed us with many wonderful memories.  Amazingly, they both admitted that living down south wasn't too bad after all (even through the summertime)!