august 15

we said goodbye to owen, max & angela today.  what a great time we had with them!  i'm so happy they came to town and stayed with us.

this afternoon we turned in brooke's kindergarten papers and met her teacher, mrs. nowak.  while it's hard to believe that my girl is going off to kindergarten next week, i know she is so ready for it.  since it's 1/2 day kindergarten, our schedule will be nearly the same that it was last year in preschool, but the big change is that brooke will be riding a school bus to and from school.  riding the bus is such a rite of passage, and i know it's what brooke is looking forward to the most!

gram vicki was over this afternoon and had dinner with us before brooke's soccer practice.  during dinner brooke knocked her tooth really loose, and she came running to me crying.  at first she didn't want me to pull it but she quickly realized it would be better to have the tooth out of her mouth :)  i got my fingers around the tooth and after a gentle tug it came right out!  brooke was thrilled - she finally lost a tooth (she's been wanting to lose a tooth ever since hanna started losing hers over a year ago)!  she happily put her tiny tooth in the pink plastic tooth the dentist gave her and carefully placed it under her pillow at bedtime.  what an exciting day!