Iowa State Fair

We finally got there after living here for 3 years.  It's near Des Moines, which is about a 1.5 hour drive west of us.  We left early this morning and finally got home around 6:30.  It wasn't too hot or sunny today, actually a perfect day.  We saw some baby animals, ate some food, rode some rides and the girls got to go through the little helpers farm.  It was a fun but exhausting day.  On the way home we stopped at Tasty Taco's, a really good taco place we don't have around here. 

baby geese

lambs

the first treat, snow cones

strong daddy showing the girls a horse

Skylar, Larissa and I climbing the steps to the big slide

 Weeeeeee

Larissa on the helicopter ride

Skylar on the swings

Both girls on another helicopter ride

they loved the dragon roller coaster

 slushies

baby cow

baby goat

Tasty Taco's

Halloween costumes

We were at Costco today and they picked up their halloween costumes.  We will be on a cruise so we wanted light weight costumes.  Skylar picked Rapunzel and Larissa picked Cindarella. 

Chuck E Cheeses

This past weekend the girls had their very first visit to Chuck E Cheeses.  They LOVED it.  We went with my brother and his family.  big cousin Jake took Skylar around and they had so much fun play games together. 

riding a hot air balloon

racing in the derby

this is a virtual rollercoaster

that's as close and she will get to the mouse

rissy was pretty good at shooting the spider

waiting to leave

looking at their "prizes"

Skylar dentist

Part of Iowa law is that a child must be seen by a dentist before kindergarten.  Although it is very important to take the kids to the dentist, I find this an odd law.  We do not have dental insurance so we were putting this off a bit.  Also with a very busy summer, it was hard to find a time to get her in (I can't take her during the day with kids here, and John can never really guarantee he can get a few hours off)  We had to reschedule her appointment a few times, but I finally got her in this morning.  She did great.  No cavities.  She has two loose teeth but they probably won't come out for a few months yet.  He also mentioned that she has a nice spacing between her baby teeth so her adult teeth should have plenty of room to come in straight.  That is good news.  Rissy watched in fascination as her sister got her teeth cleaned. 

they give he kids sunglasses so the light doesn't bother them

watching cartoons while the hygenist gets things ready

Rissy watching Skylar get her teeth cleaned

recent conversations

these kids continue to crack me up on a daily basis. 

L: Sissy it's time to wake up
S: no it's not
L: ya huh, I said Cock-a-doodle-doo

While dressing her baby doll in some pj's with a flap in the back, Skylar exclaims, Look Riss, it has a poop flap!!

Today at lunch they each got a small glass of soda as a special treat.  Larissa looks at the cups and says, Skylar, we have soda today, lets be grown ups.  She then folds her hands and says, now, how was your day?  What did you do?  (and they proceed to talk as grown up as they know how, it was pretty funny)

Last week I was trying to get Skylar to hurry up at dinner (she is a very slow eater) I kept telling her to focus on her dinner.  She seriously looks at me and says, remember mom, I lack focus. 

Last week Larissa looked at me and said, mom can you make lunch now?  I'm running out of energy over here. 

Today we were sitting in the parking lot of gymnastics waiting for the rain to slow down and the person next to us to back out.  Skylar shakes her head as the car take a good 3 minutes to slowly pull out of the parking space (he had to go back and forth a few times because it's a really tight parking lot and he was in the same kind of car as me, which is quite large)  She then sighs and says, what a jamoke.  (john and I use that word for idiot drivers) 

Skylar was playing make believe today and I hear her say, ahoy ye scalleywags.  I think she's been watching too much Jake and the Neverland Pirates.  lol. 

crazy sleeper

Larissa is a crazy sleeper some nights. 

Skylar's wardrobe

This is for you mom, Skylar is going to be the best dressed kid in Kindergarten.  She's so excited for fall and winter so she can wear her new clothes. 

leggings

turtle necks with rhinestones

long sleeve shirts

sweat jackets, the black one has a peace symbol and the purple has a star

basic long sleeve shirts

hooded sweatshirt

sweater and long pants

tunic tops (there are also pink and brown leggings to go with these tops)

more long sleeve shirts

sleeveless sweater (I bought some jean leggings to go with this sweater)

sweat jacket

She can also wear some of her things from last year.  We bought her new gym shoes and black dressier shoes (but with rubber soles) for this new year.  At the end of last winter I bought her a bunch of winter tights from Walmart on clearance.  She loves dresses and skirts so she needed tights.  She is so excited to start kindergarten and she told me tonight that she can't wait for it to get cold out so she can wear her new clothes.  lol.  I can wait.