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School.  

It is on my brain.  

When I am not there, and I am there A LOT, I am working on something at home for it.

The nice thing about it, is that I have my kids there too!  So I don't feel as bad spending so much time there, because they are there too!  When it is time to leave, they usually are the ones complaining that they are not ready to go.

 

Okay, now that you know what is in my head, here is our week...in pictures!

Friday was spirit day at school and we all sported our MPE tshirts!  

Kyan wrote the best message in his Welcome Back to School Pack and seriously made me realize that I made the right decision about switching schools {even as hard as it is to say that}!  "I know this year will be awesome because I'll get to see my mom!"  Yes, my heart melted.

Lola started gymnastics once a week and is LOVING it!

Lola wanted ketchup with her nuggets.  Ok, so she didn't need eight of them really, but they were too cute not to take extra!

 Saturday was a day that the kids and I had been looking forward to all week!  Grandpa and Grandma time!  

Lola and I were treated to pedicures by grandma!  I love me a good pedicure, but having a four year old wiggle around on me was NOT comfortable!

Swimming at the waterpark was a BIG hit {it always is}!  Lola conquered the slides!!!!

Since I have been at the kids school, Kyan has been so huggy and lovey on me!  After the waterpark, he snuggled up nice and close!

Went to dinner at Dillion's at the Zoo for dinner.  Ate dinner sharkside!  It was so cool!

The balloon lady at the restaurant was bananas ridiculous!  The kids each got a special balloon and were happy as clams!

THANK YOU Grandpa and Grandma for an amazing day together!  We always love spending time with you and having Ava and Brayden there this time was extra special!

Kyan and Lola got to spend the night with Grandparents Nebraska, but I met back up with them at church and then out to breakfast on Sunday morning!  Lola enjoyed her butter, with bread!  We said our goodbye and parted ways, so they could spend a little more time with Ava and Brayden before they had to leave.  Plus, I spent my day at school!

Since I have started second grade lunches consists of hummus, pita chips, and pretzel chips of all flavors!  Monday night I started on Kyan's teacher's birthday present!  Nothing like waiting until the last second to get started!  I had bought everything at the start of the weekend, but I put it off as usual until I could put it off no longer!

Mrs. Jones is the best teacher on the planet!  Kyan had her for kindergarten and is lucky enough to have her again this year for 2nd grade!  Wanna know something even cooler?!  She is my teammate!  It is awesome to be able to learn for someone who is so incredible with kids!  He was excited to not only give her this sign made by mama, but tickets to the Cardinals home opener this weekend!  She has never been to a game, so when he saw how excited she was to get them, he was on cloud nine!  Thank you Mrs. Jones for all you do!  You have a special place in the Roseland family's hearts!

She sleeps.  Oh, how can Lola sleep!  She is the worst to wake up!  In the mornings and now recently her teacher has discovered that nap time wake up is no fun!  It usually takes her 30 minutes to get back into the swing of things.  Ooops, should have warned her about that!  

Dress Wednesday.  Had it at Wigwam and keeping the tradition alive!  It is fun to see former students/teammates that have moved on still rockin' the dress on Wednesday! 

My parent praise wall is looking so pretty!  I hung the stars for this months prompt up and it just made it look complete!  I don't get to take any credit for the idea behind parent praise, just figured out my own way to display it in my room {which I will eventually get to taking pictures of...one day}!

Thursday morning took the hubby to get his wisdom teeth pulled.  Only took about an hour and then he was on the couch recovering with ice packs and lots of pain medicine!  

Oh yeah, did I mention that sometimes my kids are so upset when I tell them we have to leave school.  One of their most favorite things to do is play on the computers!  Lola usually joins us after school the last 10 minutes or so {she gets extended day with her preschool tuition payment, so I usually leave her there so I can get work done} but yesterday was a special day.  Working on getting her to NOT cry when having to go to extended day in the mornings and this was her reward for NOT doing so yesterday!  It's complicated as to why she can't just stay in my room until school starts, but she can't, so it is a work in progress and I am trying to get her to understand that it is different that Kyan gets to stay when she can't.  But, this worked, so might have to dangle that over her head for the time being until she isn't a hot mess in the mornings!

That was our week, busy!  How was your week?