maternity clothes

KRI! do you want some??

I am going to pitch them otherwise, but I just read your post and thought AHA, perhaps Kri will want these. I bought a bunch of tops this time around for teaching in, cute stuff but too small for everyone else on earth except you and me. Do you want it? I'll mail it to you. Email me your address...

xoxo

MaryStarr

back in the saddle again

hello darlings
just wanted to drop in and say hello. things are in full swing now. we survived both birthday parties, kindergarten, work, and pregnancy anouncements without too much bloodshed. and in my family, that is simply remarkable. trying to bathe the girls now and think that i will opt for the grand american dinner- PIZZA. why sweat and work over a stove when dialing take-out barely cramps the fingers ;)
once interesting tidbit before i have to go - i just found out today that my bestfriend since middle school is pregnant ! this will be her first and she is about 6wks along. since this is my third and i'm about 10 wks along - my news was rather anticlimatic. she did offer to lend me some of her clothes in leiu of maternity stuff (she's normally a size 12 whereas i'm a size 1) :)
oh good lord, i think the girls are having a water fight....

xoxo
kri

Kids started school last week on Wednesday. Both Samuel and Vivian were very excited to get back. Will post more later.

Hugs to all!

33 years old

Hello my loves and darlings...

Happy Birthday Gen!  I hope it was marvelous, your children are so beautiful, it is so great to hear from you. Erika is so tall, what an amazing thing how they have all grown!

COngratulations Sarah, on Riley starting school and on your pregnancy which is going so well.  Are you sick?  I noticed on facebook that you are always going to bed ;p  Fingers crossed that your morning sickness wraps up pretty soon...

Congratulations Kri!  That is so great.  Perhaps this time you shall have a son.  Wouldn't that be something?  Are you and Dan planning to stop at 3?  I miss you...

I miss you all.  Apparently Keli moved to florida, she wrote on my facebook today.  I am now dying of curiosity and must know.

Wilder is now 3 months old, and he is so cute and sweet and excellent.  Ava is amazing, she had a big cry the other night which I think she had been storing up for awhile.  It was good and really made us feel closer, she is visibly more relaxed and assured.  She told me that she had something to tell me but she was afraid to because it would make me sad.  I tried to reassure her that she can tell me anything, that it is ok whatever she is feeling.  She cried and cried, but finally she said that when she hears me talk to Wilder it makes her feel like I don't love her anymore, like I don't belong to her anymore.  Break my heart.  It was so good for her to say that though, and to hear me say back to her that I do love her so and that I will always belong to her and that I understood.  We talked about how it is hard to be a big sister, hard to know what to do and how to be.  She asked me if it was hard to have a baby the way it is hard to be a big sister and we were able to talk about how I had to learn how to be a mom when she was a baby, how matt & i made mistakes too along the way but it was ok.  Ultimately I think it was kind of a breakthrough, and she cleared a lot of pent up feelings, because she has been much her old self since.

today is my birthday, and I wish you could all be here with me.  we could have a party.  apparently 33 is the age at which hobbits are considered to come of age... so in middle earth i am  now officially a grownup.  how do you like that?

xoxo

MaryStarr

35 yrs old

August 20th, my birthday : )

Hope all is well with everyone.

Congratulations to SARAH --- happy to see everything is going great

and Kri -- another one on the way ? Holy Cow !!!

Congratulations also !

Erika starting school on August 31.... time sure flies... I cannot even believe it !!!

Riley's First Day of School

She did Amazing. She even told daddy "Daddy, don't cry, it's gonna be O.K.!!""

Kindergarten

Happy Birthday to Allie! I bet Lizzie will love dance.

Sarah, How cool about the national cheer competitions.

Samuel is doing another year at preschool. He makes the cut-off (September 15th) but we feel that he will do better getting another year in preschool. He loves his teachers and it is going to give them the full year to work on kindergarten readiness for him. He will also have an aid this year.

Vivian is excited for dance this year. She will be doing her tap/ballet class and will be doing jazz for the first time this year. Next year Theodore will be old enough for dance! I spoke with Cherie and they will be delighted to have Samuel back if we feel he could handle it. Maybe in a few more years. I just keep remembering the meltdown during dress rehearsal and thinking that maybe just lessons (he loves being onstage and for whatever reason cannot handle waiting for his turn).

Happy Day!!

Hooray for #3 Kri and Dan!! Was this planned or a happy surprise?

Allie turned two on July 26th and we had an amazing day for her. Lizzy usually manages to steal the spotlight, but this time all eyes were on Allie and she was queen for the day. We rented a helium tank and had 200 balloons floating when she came in the house...we kept asking her what she wanted for her birthday and her only answer was "birthday balloons" so she got a house full. It was awesome. She also got her first big girl bike. Lizzy was not very happy about the bike because it has flowers on it. Lizzy has the exact bike only bigger and hers has bubbles on it...oh well. She will live.

Lizzy will miss the cutoff here by 14 days so I get to keep her another year at home...hooray. She doesn't seem to care either way. She will be starting a combination ballet/tap class on September 12th (the day before her birthday) though and she is thrilled. I think she is better suited for dance then she is for soccer!! I can't believe Reily is on a cheer team that won a national title...that is amazing!!