Oh my....

Okay, I honestly have no idea where the last 4 months have gone!  I didn't realize I hadn't posted since APRIL!!!  Summer has been crazy, lots and lots of things have changed in the Rein house, but all in all, everything is GREAT!!!  I am going to try and backtrack and catch up on our fun summer!

May: 

The girls had their ballet recital....and I may be biased, but they were the cutest ballerinas I have ever seen!  They both did a really good job.

I had my lovely Mother's Day lunch with Melanie at her school. So sweet and so much fun!

 

Melanie graduated from preschool.  She was given the virtue of "Leadership".  We thought that was a nice way of saying that she is bossy. :)  In all honesty, that made us so happy that she was considered a leader because that was the main reason we held her back a year with that late birthday of hers!

 

We went up to Chicago for our baby cousin Gannon's christening....the girls had a blast with all of their cousins (and I had fun with mine!!)

 

  Our little girl decided it was time to be a big girl....Meredith got her ears pierced!!  She didn't cry, but when it was all over, she looked at me and said "I shouldn't have done it."  I asked her why, and she said, "Because it really, really hurt!"

 

June:
We had a busy June.....Melanie had VBS at St. Michael's with her friends, and then had a week at Safety Town, which is a program in Cherokee County for rising kindergarteners teaching them, well, how to be safe!  We were SO proud of our Mellie girl....they had a portion of the week where they talked about stranger danger, and they had a test where a "stranger" would come up to them on the playground.  Well, Melanie ran away from the stranger, warned all of her friends, and then went and told the teachers.  I was so incredibly proud of her for being such a smart, brave girl!

 

 

 After that, we went to St. George with Grandma and Grandpa, and had a nice, relaxing week at the beach hanging out with them and Aunt Dorfy and Uncle Al.  We had to leave a couple days early because E and I had to go to Ethan and Sharyn's wedding in Athens, which was an AWESOME weekend.....had a blast hanging out with our friends....we felt like we were in college again!

July:
Well, we have a 4 year old in the house again!  Our little peanut Meredith turned 4!  I can't believe she is already 4!  We were supposed to have a pool party, but it was SO HOT (like 105 degrees) so the flamingo party got moved to our house! 

 

On her actual birthday, we woke up and did the 5k and Tot Trot in downtown Woodstock, which was so much fun (Meredith came in 1st place out of all the 4 year olds, and Melanie came in 2nd overall!) 

 

 

When we got back from that, we went to the pool, then came home and grilled out, then followed by the Canton fireworks.  It was such a nice, relaxing 4th!!
I made a big mistake....I took the girls to the Fernbank Science Musuem with Ashley, Abbie, and Andrew.  Trying to do something educational......the exhibit there this summer was called "The Scoop on Poop."  My girls LOVED it.  Meredith has a fascination with hippos, and there was actually a video of a hippo pooping.  I think it was the highlight of her summer!

While we were driving down to Fernbank that day, I got a very interesting phone call......I GOT A JOB!  I had been praying and waiting all summer to see if enrollment was high enough at St. Michael's, and it finally was!  I am a teacher in a 3 year old classroom.  The only downside was that I had to start pretty much right away, and it didn't give me a lot of time to prep the way I would have liked to, but I didn't care, I had a job!!!

August:
August started off with a bang!  August 1st was Melanie's first day of kindergarten.  She looked so cute.  Eric and I walked her in and then we went to the Boo Hoo breakfast for parents in the cafeteria.  She didn't cry when we left her, but she has been having a difficult time all month.  She wants to be with me, which breaks my heart, but hopefully we will soon be getting past that.  Her teacher, Mrs. McConnell, is wonderful and sweet and very concerned about how sad Melanie is, and makes sure she keeps me constantly updated, which is awesome. 

Our little goose started school on August 7th!  She gets to come to school with Mommy everyday, which is awesome!  She is in Ms. Jennifer's class, but she does get to come to my room for part of the day.  She is doing incredible.  She is so well behaved and does all of her work, which is awesome, and also surprising with how she doesn't listen that well at home!

Our sweet Melanie also turned 6!  Seriously......how did 6 years go by so fast??  We had a watermelon birthday bash at Canvas by U with all of her friends, and it was so much fun!  The kids did a special watermelon painting that was created especially for Melanie.The teacher, Ms. Brooks, gave Melanie her painting so Melanie got 2 watermelon paintings to bring home! 

The next day we went on the boat with Grandma and Grandpa, and Melanie got a new quilt for her bed (ladybugs!!) On her actual birthday, I took the day off work and Daddy and I went to lunch at her school (we brought Chick-fil-A) and I made mini watermelon cupcakes for her class, and we got to sit with our birthday girl at lunch.  That night, we had Mom Mom and the gang over for more watermelon cupcakes, and Melanie got 2 really big gifts...Barbie's Dream House from us, and a Kindle Fire from Mom Mom and Papa!  Super cool! 

OH....and then, the night before she turned 6.....Melanie lost her first tooth!!!  It came out while we were at the pool.  The tooth fairy visited and left 10 dollars (because it was her birthday, she left extra!)

 

We also started our fall season of softball!  And we have 2 big girl softball players on the Bluebirds!  We had our first couple of practices already, they are too cute!  Melanie and Meredith get to play with their friends Lillian and Katelin on the team, too!

 

 

 

 This is basically the Reader's Digest version of our summer, but I think I got everything pretty much covered.  Now that school is back in and we are more on a schedule again, hopefully I won't get this far behind again!!!