new beginnings.

today was the first day of the new "school year" for our sunday school classes. i am teaching the older 3 year olds. although i will be in there every sunday, i am team-teaching with an awesome girl who will be rotating teacher/assistant responsibilities with me. i taught this week while she assisted, next week we'll switch and so forth. our class was precious and i know we're going to really enjoy them. i have a couple of sundays this fall that i lined subs up for since we'll be out of town. trey will teach with me when my co-teacher needs to miss and when this happens we will send sarah kate to the younger 2 class. but when he is not needed he'll just stay home with sarah kate and they'll meet me for church at 11:15 (well, he'll put her in the nursery and then meet me at church.) so today i left early since it was the first day so i didn't get to see sarah kate before i left. i must say, trey gets an A+ in getting his girl and himself ready for church! he even got her curls combed and tidied and stuck a great big pink bow in just the right spot. he told me later that he could probably give me lessons on how to comb her hair without any of the screaming. ha!

i didn't take any pics of cutie pie sk today. but we went out to sullivan's to eat at our fav bbq place friday night and trey took some pics when we returned. sk loves hometeam bbq! we stopped at the icecream shop next door while we were walking back to our car (like i said in my last post, we're still on vacation....eating at the beach and getting icecream...it was heavenly). sk and i split a scoop of vanilla. trey got pistachio icecream. i've always loved pistachios but have never tried the icecream.....what a treat! i wished i had gotten my own scoop of that yummy goodness....i think trey wished i had gotten my own scoop too;)


today before i put lunch on the table i asked sk to pick up all her dr. kit toys and put them back in her dr.bag and she told me "NO!! NO PUT IT BACK" over and over, she threw her stethoscope and was just very ugly about the whole thing. she had to go to timeout to "cool off." off course she told me "NO COOL OFF" but still she sat, she never gets out of her timeout chair until i get her.....think she'd sit in that chair until she graduated highschool if i never went back...ha! so finally after many refusals, i decided to call for reinforcement....daddy. trey said in a firm voice, "sarah kate, you need to listen to mommy and pick up your toys and put them back in the bag." she says, "ok daddy" and picks up the darn toys and puts them away and we proceeded to have a very nice lunch together. what the heck is up with that?!!! i'm pleasant darn it! i asked her nicely (at first). trey reminded me that it's different when the constant disciplinarian & caretaker (me) asked her to do something versus the fun-loving-voice of reason (him). i guess he's right. my mom could have nagged away when i was younger but when my dad got involved then it was done. anyway, it's all part of it! i thought it was very nice and effective for him to say, "listen to mommy." sk needs to know that we're a team and have the same expectations.

sarah kate is ready for her new school year to begin! she told me today, "go church, go schoooool? see alden?" she goes to "school" at our church and sees alden at both church & school so she's just thinking about it all. she really enjoys it all and i'm looking forward to meeting her new teacher soon! that's another post for another day. she'll start back soon enough and we're still on "vacation" remember? ha!

"Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them. "
-Deuteronomy 4:9