First Day of School

Monday we took Leah in for a half-day at her new preschool. As most of you know, our home sitter is no longer watching children. Joe & I both had the day off, so we both were able to take her in & pick her up.

She looked soooo sad when I walked out of the room and before we made it out of the building I could hear her crying. They said she had a few moments during the day, she expected it to be us picking her up when people would come in & out of the room. They had pancakes & peaches for breakfast & she didn't eat any of it.

By lunch she was hungry & ate all her pizza and oranges. When Joe & I walked in to get her she ran right to us and clung to Joe like we've never seen her. Later I asked her if she wanted to go back to school and she gave me a firm no. We will see how things go Wednesday when we drop her off for another half day.

My Funny Little Girl

These are some of the things that go on at our house.
- Leah has a plastic Cabbage Patch Kid, and of course it has the famous signature on its bottom. Leah likes to play diaper change with her babies & often gets upset because the poop (signature) won't come off the baby.

- I'm not ready to call it an imaginary friend, but twice now I've seen her talk to a frog that isn't there.

- You know the song that goes, Anna Anna bo bana, banana fana... Leah like that song, but she tells you to do it for anything. "Do car. Do cloud." Whatever she sees.

- Leah has started signing. She can sing All the Fish Swimming in the Water, Old MacDonald, and Walter Walter Wagtail. I think the last one is a Jenks family original.

- Leah would empty her water table by watering my jalapeno if you'd let her. I transferred it to a pot to try to save it, it wasn't doing well in the garden. Leah like to tell me how thirsty it is as she douses it with cup after cup.

- Yesterday when Joe went to get her up for the day she had her blanket spread out in her crib and she was sitting on it with her teddy bear & Lamby. She told him they were watching TV. And their legs had to be straight out, she is very particular.

- This week we got Whitey's for dinner and had to listen to Leah say "I farted" for the rest of the night.

Happy Belated Father's Day!

Happy Belated Father's Day to all the Dad's out there. I hope you all had a chance to enjoy your day.

Joe, you are a wonderful Dad and I think it is safe to say you are Leah's favorite. ;)

Spicey!

I love this face!

Branson family vacation

This past weekend was a lot of fun. Almost the entire family met down in Branson, my dad rented a gorgeous house so we could all stay at the same place. Sunday we rented a pontoon boat and Leah thought that was a lot of fun. Monday we stopped by Silver Dollar City before heading home, everyone else is staying until Wednesday.

It was great to see all the cousins together, playing and interacting. And of course it was wonderful to have everyone together & let the craziness ensue. We are a big group, there is no doubt about that. There were 9 adults, 2 teenagers, and 5 under 4.

Pit stop in Rolla on our way down.

Pete with Katie, Anna, Elaine, Cooper & Leah.

Crissie with Anna and Leah.

My parents & all their grandchildren.

From the left: Crissie holding Elaine, Steve, Jake, Jenni, Katie, my mom, my dad holding Anna, Joe holding Leah, me, Alex, Pete holding Cooper, and Melissa. The picture is missing Jenni's husband Matt and my sister Emma.

Leah's Baptism

Ready for her big day!

Leah with mom & dad

Leah with her God parents, Jenni and Tim

Leah was baptized on Saturday! She did such a great job. The first time the pastor reached for her she didn't want to go, but the second time she let me hand her over. He put water on her head three times and she did not cry. At the end she wanted back in my arms, but even then she just had that look on her face and that was all. My sister Jenni and Joe's brother Tim are Leah's God parents. After the service we had a meal back at the house with everyone from the family and it was nice to catch up. Joe's mom came in from California for this but somehow she got away without having her picture taken.

Thanks to everyone who attended Leah's baptism. We really appreciate it!