Firsts and Lasts

Tomorrow is Tate's last day of day care.  The last day ever I will have a child in day care.  I feel nostalgic. Old.

Mrs. Julie was Tate's summer teacher, and he colored her a sweet card to pair with a Target gift card.  The Director and two assistants will have some daisies from us.  We are thankful for Methodist Readiness School and the combined seven years of care they have provided our boys.

As much as Tate will miss friends (namely, Andrew) at MRS, we are READY for big school to start next week! 

Meet the Teacher is Monday and I designed and printed these cards for the boys to hand out to their teachers (and trust me, these boys' teachers will need caffeine. Lots of caffeine). 

Postcards arrived yesterday telling the boys the teachers they will have this year.  I am a little anxious about Cole being ready for Mrs. Bickerstaff [READ: he talks a bit much]. He is apprehensive, but I know she will challenge him and truly teach him. She has a wonderful reputation, and we are on board with a big step up to Third Grade.  

She will have her hands full. We already know that Braxton, Landon, Jett, Drew, Beck, AND Cole are in her class. We know of a couple of cute girls in her class, and there will be four or five more kids. But that set of boys alone will keep her on her toes.

Little Nugget, who apparently now prefers that I not refer to him as that or as "baby" [WHAT?!], was veryveryveryveryvery excited to learn that Mrs. Haugh will be his teacher for his first year at BH.  Mrs. Haugh is a longtime BH teacher and was a Kindergarten teacher when Cole was in Kinder, but  moved to Pre-K this year.  Tate met her at a meet-and-greet for new Pre-K students earlier this summer along with the other two teachers, and has been holding out hope he would be in her class.  

He will join an old friend, Hetcher, from MRS 2-year old class, and about 10 other new friends.  Steele is in another class, so those two will not be together, which probably has the teachers thanking the principal for the class assignments ;)

Speaking of Steele, these two had their first ever sleepover. They are four! But, they both have big brothers and have been left out of many sleepovers so they were ready... to sleep in Cole's bed together. HAHA!

Really, they did great.  Better than most of Cole's friends have done overnight at our house!

Perhaps it helped that we spent the entire day wearing ourselves out at the lake! Shana and Burton have an awesome lake house and boat, and Shana took all the boys (plus Destiny and me) out tubing on Monday. Cole stayed the night out at the lake with Dylan while Steele stayed at our house. We kid-swapped! :)

Last weekend, we adults had a little fun of our own.  We went to DFW with the Peacocks and the Penns for Kelley's thirty-somthingish birthday.  She planned an afternoon at Top Golf...

followed up by drinks at Uchi and dinner at Nobu. Not. Too. Shabby. And we even cleaned up nice.

It was HOT at Top Golf, and we are all terrible [okay, so Mike isn't terrible - go figure], but we had a blast! 

The Birthday Girl won the Ladies Division.

The boys had a sitter overnight, and we are truly thankful for a fun day and night away with friends - and each other :)

Thinking I should stay with being a lawyer. A mom. A wife. A friend. A blogger. A graphic designer. A tennis player.

Not a golfer. But it was fun while it lasted!