Our 2nd Grader and Our BIG Boy

Lin-Ley began 2nd grade last week! We took the annual photo outside at her bus stop.






Lin-Ley and Tru pose with "the twins".














Our Big Boy news is... Tru wore big boy underwear to school AND stayed dry all day! Hallelujah! I know I can not expect perfection from this point forward but what a great start (finally).
Tru is still in preschool and will finally be old enough for Pre-K next year. He has a November birthday so he missed the cut-off for Pre-K this year by two months.


Our 2nd Grader and our Big Boy have been getting along remarkably well lately. We can usually find them in Lin-Ley's room playing dress up. Lin-Ley loves the fact that Tru follows (almost) all of her directions during play.
Tru seems to love it too.

Dallas has handled Tru's fondness for Princess dresses rather well. I did hear him, however, tell Lin-Ley that Tru could no longer wear the Cinderella ballet slippers.








P.S. Baby Groundhog is back. Well, actually, the baby is now full grown. I would have to describe it now as Mr. Groundhog because it looks like it has a large, black mustache. He can be found on, around, and under our front porch. The last time I spotted him he was walking along the sidewalk with a mouth full of pine straw and then took it under the porch to fluff up his bed.



Flower of Choice: Hibiscus.


He was kind enough to leave us one bloom.














If groundhogs could read this would be the note on our front porch right now:

Dear Mr. Groundhog,
We have left a nice, juicy apple for you. Just walk into the shiny silver box (trap) and enjoy your treat. Then Dallas and Lin-Ley will be happy to escort you to your new home (far away from ours).

Love,
Us (and our flowers)