So What's for Breakfast at your House?

Sorry for not posting any news lately. There has been a lot going on in this house. I will give the cliff notes of the events since I last posted. My teenage boys and husband went to a week long teens conference, so it was just Daniel, Renee and me for 5 days. When they got back home it was fair week. It was so hot!! We had the worst drought and high heat this summer than I have ever seen. We didn't go to the fair as many days as we usually do. (also our drought finally broke during the week of the fair. Glad to finally get the rain, just didn't feel like going to the fair in the rain) My oldest son came back home after being gone for 6 weeks on a missions trip. It is so good to have all my kids under one roof again. I need to enjoy it. He is going to a community college this year and living at home, but he has plans to leave next year to another college. When he returned home it has been a mad rush to get everything in line for him to start college(drop and add classes, pay tution, buy books, etc) including looking for a job. Since I homeschool it has been very busy for me planning a new school year. I have 2 boys in high school and they are taking a couple classes at the public high school and it was more difficult this year trying to get this lined up and making it work with our schedule. I finally have it all planned out. It looks great on paper, but with Renee in the mix of it who knows if it will work. Our school district is trying to move toward a "balanced schedule." Code word: year round school. We started Aug. 10th this year, so my kids are starting their 3rd day at school. So far so good. My parents are retired school teachers and they come up every Tuesday and spend the day teaching the kids. Today is our first day back to school with them, which finally brings me to the breakfast question. My dad likes bringing his left over Chinese food over to Renee. She gets more excited about it than she does the candy he brings for her. Today he offered it to her for breakfast and she gobbled it up using chopsticks of course! I don't have any pictures of it, but I do have random pictures of her over the past weeks.

She loved the rides at the fair, but couldn't ride very many things yet because she was a inch to short. :( She seemed to have no fear at all. I think she would have rode many more things. She could only go on rides where she rode with someone.

She loves playing with a friend who lives right out our back door. They love playing dress up. This cracked me up. They came out as pirates and then 15 minutes later they were princesses!

Here she is with a bow in her hair and I had such high hopes that now that her bangs are getting so long she would let me put clips in her hair, but no such luck. This girl loves shoes! I just found these on clearance and bought them for her. She had a huge fit when I took them off that night and she wasn't even out of her crib the next morning yet and she wanted them back on. She has worn them every day since I bought them. Of course another picture with her buddy Daniel!

Here she is decorating cookies. She did a really good job and gave a thumbs up that the cookie was good.

I am in trouble. She loves clothes and things that sparkle. She didn't want to put this in her hair for a picture to be taken, so I wore one to encourage her to wear hers. Her Aunt bought her this adorable tutu! She was so excited!

Last two pictures. Here she is after I cut her bangs. The other is a picture of me measuring her. Every August at the start of school I measure the kids. We measured her in April and she has grown a inch since then!