Eleven years...

Happy Birthday Tay! We cannot believe how fast she is growing. The time is going by so fast. This is one of the outfits Tay picked out when we took her shopping on Saturday. I think it makes her look even older than she is. I just cannot believe she is eleven already. She didn't want a party this year and the only thing she wanted today was for her dad to grill steak tonight. She is so easy to please!

Tay's bday celebration

Opening the present Tierney got her.

Birthday celebration with the Perkins.

It is so hard to believe that Tay is going to be eleven tomorrow. I'm not sure where the time has gone. I sure wish our girls would stop growing! We celebrated her birthday with Marshall's side of the family this weekend and my parents took them to the movie today. We also took Tay shopping yesterday so she could spend some of her birthday money at Justice! She finally is like her mom and sister and likes to shop. She informed me that she's finally becoming a girl and likes to shop. Today she asked if she could open one of her presents that we got her. Well Tierney begged her to open the one that was from her and that's what she picked. I'm a sucker for that but figure she can't open her presents until tomorrow night since she has school tomorrow so we let her open one.

Tierney

Our little Tierney makes me laugh more and more everyday. She is becoming so mature now that she is going to school all day. She has also become very interested in learning and asks us to do "pluses" (addition) flash cards with her. She does really well with them. She also scored really high on her fluency test at school. She is able to recognize all the letters big and small and tell you their sounds. She also is able to recognize what most beginning sounds are when put into words. We are so proud of her.

The other day they made applesauce at school. She came home and informed me that they got to cut their own apples with a knife (I believe it was just a butter knife). She informed us that she told her teacher that her mom would be po'd when she knew she used a knife. Yep her teacher had no response to that. I wonder what she had to be thinking!

Last night we were at a wedding and were informed by the mother of the groom who works at the school that a boy in third grade thinks that Tierney is just so cute.

I know we are going to have our hands full with her since we already do but she is also the sweetest little thing!

Ethin's Party

We had Ethin's birthday party this past weekend. He is a huge spiderman fan just like his uncle Marshall. He was sure he needed his picture taken with spiderman and Uncle Marshall. The girls had to get in on it too!

Mask

Tierney had her first "homework" the other night. She needed to make a mask out of a paper bag using different materials. It was a lot of trouble deciding what type of mask to make before she decided on a cat. She had some help with the gluing but otherwise did the rest. You can't see it but she even had yarn for a tail!

Getting better...

Well I think school is getting better for both of the girls. They are extremely tired but I'm hoping as they get used being back in school that this too will get better. Tierney was much happier today when I picked her up. She only had one negative thing to say about school so that is a plus. Tay had much less homework tonight and only an hours worth last night so she's actually enjoying hanging out messing with her IPod. I'm hoping that we are headed in the right direction.

One thing towards the end of last year was that Tierney was chasing boys at recess and they were chasing her. Marshall and I just shook our heads and try to remind her that we don't need to be worrying about boys. Well today she came home and informed me that some boys were chasing her at recess today and she did the peace sign, kissed it, told them peace out and goodbye and then they left her alone. Oh man I was dying when she was telling me this and showing me what she did. Of course she shook her hips and said it all sassy. She probably scared them! We are going to have our hands full with her!

Tierney

Oh our little Tierney is just something. She is really big into rules and if a teacher or someone (other than us) tell her something she thinks it is the law. Well she was having a meltdown earlier and Marshall was scolding her. She then informed him he was being a bucket tipper. Then hours later went into a big speech how he really needs to try to be a bucket filler and not a bucket tipper because that is what her principal told her. She was also upset the other night because her teacher told them to do something and did not say please so she wasn't showing good character. Oh boy what do you say to that?!