School & Birthdays

It has been back to school this month! A BIG month for these kiddos. The school routine has hit us hard, ha. Not only that, but Collin is in 1st grade and at a new BIG school! This little fella and his momma have definitely had an adjustment period with a new school, friends, teachers, routines, etc but it didn't take long for him to start to love it all. He is reading up a storm and very happy with school. Except for the homework part.

Brantlee returned back to her preschool for K4. She has the same classroom and mostly the same friends, so not a whole lot changed for her. Not that it would have mattered ;) ;) She does have a new teacher this year, whom she LOVES. So all is well with Miss B. We are enjoying her last year of preschool before the "real world" starts for her and she starts BIG school next year. I can't believe I just typed that :(

Like July, we have quite a few birthdays in August in our family. Paw Paw Sumrall turned 80 this year, and that of course called for a big celebration. We had a family gathering at Mom and Dad's house.

The 4 children

The 5 grandchildren

8 of the 10 great grands. Poor Ty.

We also celebrated Lolly's 50th birthday!! We had a little surprise party for her that afternoon. I really think she was surprised! Or if she wasn't, she faked it really well, ha. She wasn't too fond of this particular birthday. But heck, she makes 50 look pretty darn glamorous if you ask me!

Our Lolly is one of kind. She'll never know what she means to all of us.

Ty is almost 14 months now. He pretty much lives in car line drop off and pick up. Bless. 

He is such a little stinker. ALL boy. His hobbies include playing with the dogs (yes, plural. another blog post), playing outside in the dirt, and eating. Seriously. That's what makes him happy! Just disregard the pink paci. We got down to the wire on our paci stash and it wasn't like we could do without at bed time. Actually, I should be more honest here. I think we've used this paci in public once. :D

More to come after a nice Labor Day weekend.