Our week

the girls started Preschool this week and are both loving it! We have been really busy just doing our thing! We had a great Labor Day weekend with Ryan and Amanda visiting. Despite the terrible hotness of the weekend, we did have some fun! We played some Hand and Foot and a little Ticket to Ride. The boys went outside and destroyed an old moniter for fun. Rob and I were also ab le to go to the dollar movies with the kids (nothing like 50 cent movie night!). Poor Ginny must have a really bad outlook on our situation right now. While waitning in line to buy the tickets, she turned to Rob and said: "Aren't the movies to expensive for us?". I've been trying to teach her that we stick to a plan when it comes to money, but I guess it's turning into a "we're poor" lesson. I'll have to work on that!

We had a chance to take a walk around our neighborhood and to our little park. Rob decided to let Ginny try her bike without training wheels. She actually did really well at it and I can't wait to see her keep up her good work.

Audrey is such a talker! That girl will just come up to you and tell you what's going on with her life. Ever since shewas small she would come in and tell on herself when she had gotten into something she knew she wasn't supposed to. We had some graham crakckers this week that her and Ginny had dutifully devoured and she was so prompt at telling me about it as soon as I came into the kitchen. I sure love that little talker!

Lily is really growing up! She really wants to have you walk around everyhere and throw what we call a baby tantrum if you let go of her hands when she wants to walk. I'm convinced she is capable of walking on her own and has even taken a few steps, but just lacks the confidence or the desire to do it on her own. She is also getting pretty efficient at communicating. She knows a bunch of signs including: food, milk, music, dog, and something thatshe uses as a general sing that is a mix between dad and all done. haven't quite figured that one out yet. We'll see as she gets older. SHe has also started to speak definable words at appropriate times, mostly just dada and mama, which dada was first on.