The first day

Today was the first day of my 14th year of teaching! Woah! More importantly, today was Beau Philip's first day of 3K and Lola Cate's first day of toddler class! Both beautiful children had a great day and both dropped off with hesitation but no tears! No tears, which means mommy didn't have tears! Yay!
Beau's teacher is Mrs. Julie and he has many friends in his class from last year. We know Mrs. Julie because she taught Luke 4K and Henry 3K! We are very excited to have her this year.  Lola Cate's teacher is Mrs. Isabella and Miss Marlee. These are new teachers for us but we are looking forward to developing new relationships with them and looking forward to Lola enjoying her first year at Simpsonville First Baptist CDC.

This was Beau as soon as I dropped him off. He just sat and watched, kinda pouting because I had left. 

But then...I get this picture later from his teacher. A picture of him with many of his buddies, mostly from last year and now with him in his class again this year. So glad that worked out.

Lola Cate's teacher sent me this one when she was eating her morning snack. Such a big girl sitting at the table with her classmates!

Beau at recess on the big kid playground.

After we finally got home, reunited and it felt so good to mommy but she was all about playing with those brothers! She was so happy to be with them again.

The back of her dress. It was just so cute I had to take a picture. Love the smocked apple on the back.

Momma

Lola Cate said Momma this past weekend. Made my heart happy. Her first word. She is just a week and a half shy of 10 months. 

 

Firsts

I can't wait a whole month to post this on her 6 month post so I had to go ahead me write tonight. 

First off, Lola Cate cut her first tooth this weekend. She took it like a pro. Really didn't seem to bother her that I could tell. She has the bottom left front tooth. So right after turning 5 months she got her first tooth. 

You can't really see the tooth well but it is there!!

Then tonight I was eating dinner with Lola next to me and she kept whining for food regardless of the fact she had just nursed not long before. So I said why not. Lola had her first food tonight, baby cereal. She loved it and she ate like a pro. She really would have eaten more if I had it. She probably had two tablespoons worth of baby cereal mixed with breast milk. I have a cute video but I can't upload videos on here anymore. So enjoy the pictures below. She was happy even though her face doesn't show it. 

Very first bite. She thought the spoon was a toy. 

There's a smile. She actually does like it despite what the pictures show. :) I'm looking forward to seeing how she reacts to cereal again tomorrow night. 

Lola Cate

Lola Cate rolled over today. For the first time. Without her momma there. :( 

She showed off for me though when we got home. 

Swinging

First time swinging and she's not so sure. She doesn't like the stomach drop so we went very slowly. I think she will like it soon. 

First swim!

Lola had her first pool swim yesterday! We joined the Angel family at their pool. At first she was hesitant. But she warmed up quickly to it and enjoyed it! We sat on the steps for about 10 minutes and she seemed to enjoy the water and watching others play in the water (as long as they didn't splash her). I'm not surprised she enjoyed it because she loves bath time. 

The pictures below are when we first got into the water. She wasn't sure about it then.

Ash Wednesday

Beaus first Ash Wednesday! The beginning of Lent and because I'm on maternity leave I actually got to go to a day time service. So Beau and I ventured out on our own to his first Ash Wednesday and his first church service. 10 days old in church. He was a very good boy! Little did I know that he wasn't supposed to get Ashes, he isn't baptized yet. Oops!

Henry's first haircut

We finally did it, we cut Henry's hair. He looks so handsome but were did my baby go? I miss him already! Here are some before, during and after. Some of the during pictures are a little hard to look at! :)