Pictures!

Leah with Papa on her first day of K, Aug. 17.

All smiles in the car. I need to find last year's preK pic because she looks SO much older!

Running circles, literally, on the being-built deck.

The rebuilt deck! Take that, fire! 

It got cool here! Love it! This is Sunday evening after baths and before dinner. She looks old (and like trouble!) here, too!

Hope in hoodies and pjs.

 Leah being way cheesy on picture day. Let's see what the school pic looks like!

A bit out of order; Tinkerbelle in PJs; this was early Sunday morning while Papa was working on the deck.

Hope on her first day of preK!

Preschool Eve

Yes, it's been weeks since I posted.

Yes, we have another first-day-of-school girlie here.

Tonight is preschool eve for Hope. I promise to post pics soon (I hesitate to say tomorrow night, but soon) of both girls. It's just all so crazy. By the time one of us picks up the girls from their in-home daycare, get home, throw dinner down their throats (it feels like it's that fast sometimes!), do the bath and bed routine and then get them to sleep, we're beyond exhausted ourselves. I honestly don't know how people do it. Sometimes I wonder that we didn't "stretch" enough as parents since they're adopted - that we didn't build our strength as parents with them while they were babies and now that we have them home (for more than a year!) we are behind the stamina 8 ball. I feel as though I'm babbling.

Anyway. Pictures later. Or someday.

Until then, here's to our big girl, Hope, starting preschool!