Laboring

We really enjoyed our Labor Day Weekend this year. Mike actually had a real 3-day weekend. His interim job assignment over the summer has morphed into a new job. Instead of Store Manager for the Manhattan stores, he is now the Performance Support Manager for the Kansas market. He will now be working to improve the Sales Process of all associates thereby improving the performance of all the stores in Kansas. Which means he no longer writes a schedule and is no longer working shifts at the stores. Hence the 3-day weekend (he worked both Memorial Day and the 4th of July this summer). We will leave out the downside of the major increase in overnight travel.

Anyways, on Saturday morning we got up and attempted to overseed our lawn, yet again. We have definitely seen improvement in the lawn after several tries at putting down more seed, but our lawn still has a long way to go. I took some pictures of the kids helping us in our labors.

Benson and Grace were too busy watching tv to come outside, so they were assigned folding the laundry. They did a pretty good job.

Sabrina helped us water the lawn prior to putting down the seed.

And helped push the spreader all over the yard.

And Jillian, never one to be left out, took over the hose when Sabrina was done. You probably can't tell in this picture but her face is crusted with glaze from her donut breakfast and her nose was dripping like a faucet. But she was having fun and working hard. She loves to be outside. Thank goodness our weather has turned fall-like because she is so much happier playing outside. And thank goodness our neighbors like us and can overlook us letting our kids run around looking so filthy.

On Monday we had a fun Family Home Morning, went to the zoo and had a picnic lunch, and then went to our Ward BBQ at our favorite park that evening. The weather was perfect and it was a very fun family day!

More Firsts

Sabrina has been waiting FOREVER for preschool to finally start. Her first day was yesterday, Wednesday, and she was READY!

Sabrina has been experiencing some serious middle-childitis lately. She longs to go to school like the big kids and gets tired of having to give in to Jillian all the time. Nothing is ever fair and she wants a friend over every day of the week to help her not feel left out. I'm hoping that having her own time at preschool will help with that, because we are NOT having play dates every day of the week.

Jillian has not been a big talker heretofore, which is why we are currently enduring 3 hours of speech therapy a week. Neither she or Sabrina are very happy with that schedule. But yesterday when I got out the camera to take Sabrina's picture before preschool, she proved that she does have the ability to speak understandably.

Actually in the last couple of weeks, she really has started using several words more consistently. She knows uh-oh, dada, ball, throw, go, and just the other day added cheese and juice. Hopefully this is just the beginning of language explosion!