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What am I going to do with her?!

Escape-artist Hannah, after making it out the front door, jumping the front fence and heading for the street... in her underwear. So of course, I grabbed my camera instead of stopping her. See ya, Mom!

Speaking of underwear...she's no longer wearing them. She absolutely refuses to use the potty. It's not that she doen't know how, 'cause she does. After being completely potty-trained, she decided she just didn't want to do it anymore. Despite this, I thought I could force my will upon her and make her go...boy was I wrong. For weeks, I would make her sit on the potty at regular intervals only to have her mess her underwear moments after she got down. On purpose. So to save my sanity (and the carpet), we put her back into diapers. How depressing. My mom assures me that she will eventually be potty-trained and won't go to Kindergarten in diapers. Let's hope she's right.

Logan: "Mom, I wish I was nine."

Me: "Don't worry, you will grow up soon enough!"

Logan: "(sigh) But it's taking FOREVER!"

Andrew's New Website

Andrew: "I now have a website! :)"

https://sites.google.com/site/fenteco/home

I ♥ Fall Leaves!

I fell in love with Fall leaves while living in Ohio. I love the changing colors and how they crunch under your feet when you walk. I'm so glad that we still get to experience the changing of the seasons here in Washington mixed in with the beauty of all the evergreens.

We have plenty of leaves to rake up here at our house. Hannah likes to "help."

With all the rain, the leaves are more soggy than crunchy, so Hannah headed straight to the bath after this.

Back to School

This post seems a little late, as a lot of schools elsewhere started a couple weeks ago, but my boys started school today! Andrew headed off to 3rd grade and Logan started Kindergarten. It just tickles me that both my boys are in the same school now and will be able to look out for each other!

Have you ever seen a a couple kids happier to be starting school? Well, actually, Daddy was getting them to smile by saying things like, "Andrew likes to kiss girls!" and "Logan has stinky feet!" Whatever works, right?

After a summer of gorgeous sunny weather, we were starting to think that the whole Washington rain thing was just a myth. But, it seems the weather has changed, and we had plenty of rain for the first day of school.

Both boys reported a great first day of school! Andrew was happy to have made two new friends, and Logan chattered excitedly about his classroom, teacher and the TWO playgrounds at his school!

Mommy did pretty well too. She didn't even cry.

Go fly a kite!

A couple of weeks ago, when Davie and Chris were visiting us, we took a trip to Long Beach, WA for the International Kite Festival. This was really worth the trip. Not only did we get to see tons of amazing kites and performers, we also got to see the town with shops and attractions, ride in a horse-drawn wagon, walk the board walk, play on the beach, and fly our own kites. I really hope we can do this again next year!

Bryan and Andrew getting ready to launch their own kite.

Run Andrew, Run!

It was way too cold to get in the water, but the kids had a blast playing in the sand.

I really wanted a picute of thie kids playing in the sand with the kites in the background, so I took about a million pictures like this.

"Okay, enough pictures, Mom!"

The LoveBirds, Davie and Chris

I don't know what these giant ring kites are called, but they were awesome!

Davie, Chris, and Bryan, riding through Long Beach in a horse-drawn wagon.

This was the best we could do for an end-of-the-day shot. The kids (and grown-ups) were pretty pooped!

Apparently we've been naughty...

Today I overheard Logan singing the Mickey Mouse Club March:

"Who's the leader of the club that's SPANKING you and me?

M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!"