Tomorrow is the last day of Makenna's first dance class ;( I'm going to miss taking her every week. I love how cute she looks in her clothes and how excited she is to go. I love going to the thrift store and finding goodies..and I love talking to all the other parents while we wait for our girls! I'm not sure if I'm going to send her to JD or Pinelle for the fall. I really like JD because we already went there this time..and it's right by the thrift store..and I know a lot of the other mom's are going to be sending their kids there in the fall...but I want Makenna to do competion dancing. Pinelle makes the girls try out before compition and JD doesn't. I don't want her to compete with girls who aren't putting thier whole heart into it the way I know Makenna will. So I will probably switch her. I just don't know if Pinelle will make her take beginning dance again..I don't want her to have to repeat what she just took. But I'm really excited for tomorrow..we get to actually sit in and watch the class. I can't wait to see how she does..and you know I will be taking lots of video and pictures!

I kind of can't wait for school to start. I know I'm going to regret wishing away the nice weather. Fall goes way too fast, and I absolutely hate the winter time. But I'm excited to have some structure once again. Makenna is going to be going to prek Mon, Wed, and Fri and Mikhail will be going to school full day. Since I have to get the kids up and ready to take the big kids to school, I might as well take the twins to the y and then pick up Makenna come home for lunch and naps and get the house cleaned and dinner started and everything ready for the next day to do it all over again..ahh seems like a lot but I know the stucture will be nice to help me get through the day better.

I really want to go back to school in the fall as well. I don't know if that will actually happen or not. I just started thinking about it again, and there's a lot I have to do to make that happen. My parents offered to fully help me with the kids so I could go. But that's just one more thing to add to my pile of to do. It's been soo long since I've been in school, I don't know if I can do it. I want to try though. I feel like I need a challenge and some time away from the house..just to help with stress. I just don't know what Tim's back to school schedule is going to look like and if it's really possible. I might have to wait until next fall..I'll be a little sad putting it off for another year.

WOW! My twins are almost TWO! I can't believe it..I still think of them as being just about one. I can't believe two years have almost passed. I was getting them dressed for bed tonight and watching them be all crazy and I was thinking..wow, when Mikhail was twenty four months old, I had a ten month old also..I don't know how I did it..and how I was able to add new born twins to the mix when Makenna was just a little older than two and Mikhail was three. It's really funny how we just adapt to things. They are changing so much all the time! Madelyn loveees to read books. She's always bringing them to me and she likes to point to things in them. Her faveorite bed time book is an Elmo one and she likes to find Elmo in all the pictures. Tim has taught her to say UH OH and it's the cutest ever! She also likes to "Whop" Tim on the head! Every time I tell her to whop him..she gets her fist ready and she whops him on the head. I think it's absolutely halarious. She also has a 'get mad' or 'get mean' face that cracks me up and she grunts like crazy! I just love her little personality :) She likes to fight because she sees Tim doing that with the big kids and how they laugh and play and she wants to be apart of that. She's still Daddy's girl..but she likes to Whop him! Maddox is my boy all the way still. He's a kisser and a lover and hates to go to sleep. Drives me nuts every night at bed time. She sits in his room and screams and watches for you under the door. He's a big old fit thrower. He still hasn't had his first hair cut..which he desperately needs..but I love his blonde curls..he's my little surfer boy and I love it! Tim wants to get it all cut off and that's going to break my heart! He's such a boy and he's Mikhail's best friend and I love it. He loves to kiss on Mikhail and he's really into playing with cars and trucks. I know him and Mikhail are going to have a lot of fun together being Buds :)