Little Miss Clean

Who is Little Miss Clean?

Well, I can tell you it is NOT this little lady:

Nope, not her!  Miss Allie has become my little neat freak!  It started last Sunday, Jesse was getting ready for church and Allison called him down to her room.  I wish I had a before picture, because it was a DISASTER!  Books and toys all over.  I had been meaning to clean it up, but with Allie's b-day party coming I kind of decided to just wait until closer to that so I don't have to do it again!  Well, I guess Allie decided to take it upon herself. 

She put all her toys in the shopping cart and moved it to the living room.  Stacked all her books in her nightstand and put her pj's on the pillow on the floor.  She attempted to make her bed even!  And then when Jesse was reading to her before nap, she told him, now make sure and put that book back when you are done with it!!  Oh my!  And she has kept it clean all week!

Then on Tuesday when I was putting Kara down for a nap I heard her banging around upstairs and was wondering what in the world she was doing.  I was prepared for the worst.  This is what I found:

 

She had cleaned up all the toys upstairs!  I was so impressed!  However what she doesn't realize, is now I have a little higher expectations for her and she is going to start getting some more responsibilities!  And my little Kara is still a little Miss Messy!  She is the tornado behind Allison's cleaning!  Allison even said, now we have to keep Kara out of here so she doesn't mess it up, referring to the living room...poor Kara!  LOL!  

And it Begins...

So this year we are getting our first taste of life with a "school-age" child!  Oh, the opportunites and such for them to be involved in!  Allison is in preschool on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, dance on Monday afternoons and Sunday School on Sundays (of course!).  And I think we will do gymnastics this winter.  While that may not sound like much...with both of us working full time or almost full time, I feel like we are constantly running!  Here is what our Sept. calendar looks like:

And there are things that aren't written on there too.  Going to the Y, I actually don't have dance and SS on there every week.  But to be honest, I like it.  And so does Allison.  She is now loving preschool.  LOVES dance!!  Seriously gets so excited to go and tonight the parents got to watch for about 5min at the end of practice to see what they were learning, she did GREAT!  And she liked her first day of Sunday school on sunday too.  She is going to grow and learn so much this year!! 

My baby goes to Preschool!!

Allison had her first day of preschool today at Children's Corner Preschool at the AG church in Willmar.  She was excited and went in good, all smiles, but when I came to get her she looked kind of sad.  I guess she got a little sad at some point and was missing me!  I think she will love it and she does talk about going back, so that is good.  Seems like a kids paradise to me!  We had dance registration tonight and Monday night is her first actual dance practice!  She is very excited for that.  She was so bummed she wasn't getting to dance tonight!

WHAT?!  I have school today?!

Daddy and Allie before work and school!

So excited!!  Well, I guess it is fitting that she says when she grows up she wants to be a babysitter since to her 13 is pretty grown up!!  Book her now folks, she is gonig to be good!  ;)

So Long Summer!!

Well, we celebrated the "unofficial" last weekend of summer with good friends at the Rath Ranch!  ;)  As always, so fun, and SO BUSY with all those kids!  And we each only have 1 or 2!!!

Allie and Audrey - Cruisin'

My busy girl, Miss Kara, loving some crackers!

Enjoying a smore!

The girls!  Only took my hubby about 10 takes to get this one!  I should post the rest for laughs!

Although this was about the best of the guys that I got.  I think someone else got a better one!