The Pelham Family!: Bittersweet...

The end of summer has been bittersweet for me...all summer I've been thinking about Jack starting preschool this fall. I know it's the right choice for him and it will be good for him to spread his wings but it's still hard for this Mama. Tuesday is the BIG day (I'm getting teary eyed just thinking about it). Jack's time at school will give Fernie and I some one-on-one time, however I have this feeling she will be looking for Jack!

This past week we went to his preschool open house. As we walked in and I showed him where his backpack goes I got tears in my eyes and had to stop talking. I kept telling myself, it's the hormones! A few minutes after we arrived the parents went to an informational session and the kids stayed and had a short preschool session. Jack was so excited when we came to pick him up. The next morning he asked if he could go to school!! He is such a little sponge he will soak up of every minute of school.

These two are quite a pair!

Just had to share this picture. Fernie takes off her shoes all the time. I actually don't bother putting on her shoes before we go somewhere because she takes them off in the car. I only put her shoes on before we walk into a building!

As everyone saw we announced our baby news with a picture of the kids eating pink suckers! However I thought I would share a few of the pictures leading up to the final pick!

Jack was so good at posing...Fernie not so much. She couldn't wait to get the sucker in her mouth...

Zack had to pull the sucker out of her mouth...

"Mine!"

Our pick!

As I said at the beginning this summer has been bittersweet. The bitter part being Jack starting preschool and the sweet part was surprising my best friend and meeting her and her husband in MN!

On June 12th I got an email from Ryan asking if I could get away to see Rose. I actually emailed him back asking if it was a joke! So for the next two months I had to keep a BIG secret. There were so many times Rose and I would email/text back and forth and I wanted to say something like "oh I can just bring that in August", "you can just show me in August", "I can't wait to tell you that over dinner"...The day of seeing her was the hardest because she was texting me about their trip (which she didn't know where she was going) and Ryan was emailing/texting me about their travel whereabouts. I was so worried I would accidentally send the wrong response to someone!!!

The weekend was GREAT! We ate, shopped, ate, walked, ate...we did a lot of eating! I'm sure Ryan wondered what else we could talk about. We probably could have spent another week just catching up. It has been way too long, I think yearly get togethers might be in order :)

I owe a huge THANK YOU to my parents who watched the kids Friday morning and my dear husband who had the kids all weekend! I think one day Zack took the kids to 4 parks!

I can probably recall this happening two other times, but the kids were PLAYED OUT. They went upstairs and got their sleep items and laid on the floor!

Last weekend we went to Zack's office picnic held at someone's cabin. The kids had a great time...they got to stay outside all afternoon, eat ice cream, Jack got root beer, and stayed up WAY past their bedtime!