Today I started (along with many others) to participate Ali Edwards' "Week in the Life" project.
I'm looking forward to capturing a snapshot of our everyday life and our home.
Today I took 120 photos on my point and shoot, many of them duplicates of the same scene. I just edited that group down to 45.
I'll be sharing my five favorite photos at the end of each day this week, then working on putting an album together next week.
Lachlan and I finished our summer session at Preucil Preschool last week. I taught the 2 Day class, and L attended two days a week in the 5 day classroom with his teachers Tricia and Julie.
Preucil has two classrooms that are joined in the center with a communal art room. I am so thankful it worked out for L to be in the other classroom. I think it is better for him to have his own space and someone other than mom in charge. The first couple days he kept poking his head in and asking to be in my classroom. I realized that he mostly wanted to play with the toys in our room (as opposed to really missing me) so I made sure he had time to play in my classroom before school started.
As expected, he was very comfortable and happy to be at school. Also as expected, he gravitated towards the older boys in the class - a couple who are headed off to kindergarten in August and Helen's visiting son who is in elementary school - and wanted to play whatever they were playing.
He built blocks and made a painting almost every day. He also loved the half hour music class and Helen's theater class after lunch. He's been belting out songs from both every day.
I admit it did take a little more energy than I expected to be the "mom" and the "teacher" at the same time. It also stressed me out that he is still fighting potty training (especially #2) so I had to resist checking up on him every 10 minutes. At the same time, I am so lucky that I get to watch him experience all the social, cognitive, and creative firsts he will have at preschool.
He's looking so grown up, isn't he?
It has been too dang hot in Iowa the past few days to be outside, so I've been alternating between cleaning house and doing a little scrapbooking. I started this mini album a few weeks ago to capture our moments of summer fun. These are a few of my favorite spreads so far:
mini book base from: bananafishstudio 
Last week we had another photo shoot with Shelley Haganman to capture a few more photos of Lachlan at age 3 and Kenley at age 1.
We decided to visit a nearby park for a change of scenery and it worked out great! Lachlan got to play while we were busy with Kenley and the shaded, wooded backdrop is so lovely in the photos.
I put together more of my favorites into a photo book on Snapfish. If you'd like to check it out you can see it online here.
Hollyhocks are one of my favorite flowers, and I've been admiring a large field of them a few miles from our house. This morning both kids were up with the sun, so I decided to take them on an early morning photo-taking expedition. Kenley was too busy inspecting the cars driving past behind me and her little board book to look at the camera. Lachlan has been photographing things with his toy camera phone this week, so he had to get a few shots of the flowers, too. By the way, the only way I could get the shot of him smiling in the top left photo was to bribe him with the next stop on our adventure - donuts from the grocery store!
