Chloe Loves To Catch Ladybugs

For the past month, Chloe's favourite activity has been going in our backyard and finding ladybugs and putting them in the back of Olivia's tricycle. Usually she finds one, two, or at the most three, and is so proud of herself, and loves to "get food" for them, which is just grass and leaves. Today she was outside finding ladybugs and came in a couple of times to tell me she found, "hundreds and thousands of ladybugs!" I thought she had found maybe 4 or 5 instead of 2 or 3, and was so surprised to see how many she found. They were everywhere to be found today!

Chloe and Olivia's Ladybugs!

Chloe's First Day Of Playschool!

She was so excited. She had to wait until after the long weekend for her school to start, so she has been very patient. She has been asking me almost everyday if she starts tomorrow. She picked out this little bunny backpack. She is happy she gets to go to school with most of the little girls from church.

It is strange to have just Olivia for those three hours Chloe is gone, and the older two are at their school. Olivia of course wanted to stay and play too. Chloe did that when Lily went to playschool, and Lily did that when Izzy went to playschool. Olivia was OK once I took the playdough out at home for her. She was happy to have Chloe back home for the afternoon though. Olivia is starting to cut out her naps altogether, and she is just happy as can be following Chloe around and doing everything she does. It is really sweet.

First Day Of School

Today was the big first day of Grade 1 and Grade 3! I can't believe the two oldest girls are now in school full time!!!! They have been so excited and looking forward to this day. So far they love their teachers and everything. They were happy to see old friends.

Lily was so excited to get a desk, instead of just tables they used in Kindergarten. She also LOVED her agenda book she gets to bring home everyday "just like Izzy." She loved her outfit she is wearing in the above picture, too. She picked it out herself when we went shopping. She said she loves PEACE signs. She did look really cute.

Izzy told me last night, "Clothes are cool when they don't match." I thought that was funny. She did choose to wear matching clothes though. She is really growing up. She doesn't like it when I say, "that shirt is cute," or "that is a cute top," or anything CUTE. She thinks that word belongs to babies I guess. I explained that it is another way of saying nice, or cool. She is happy with her teacher, who is new this year. I could tell she was a little nervous, but she was so brave and grown up and happy to be back at school. She said her class this year will study Peru, and she is so happy because that is where Ben served his mission.

Here they all are after school, happy to be together again. It was really different having just the two girls all day. Chloe starts her Playschool next week and is SO excited.