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How have I missed logging this in our family memories?!  My goodness!  I can’t believe I haven’t mentioned that our baby is in 1st grade now!  Oh, and he’s loving it!  We ask him practically every day what his favorite part of his day was, and he says, “all of it, I love all of it, I can’t pick a favorite!”  We’re on fall break now, and he’s counting down the days until he’s back with his friends, and learning.  He told me yesterday, “When I see my friends for the first time I’m going to say, ‘Long time no see, Baby!  Wait…what does that mean?'”  LOL!  He’s a beautiful, beautiful boy.  Full of energy, lots of sass, he loves playing with his friends and making everyone laugh, he loves following rules and learning in a class environment.  He’s a total blessing.  And, he’s incredibly beautiful.  And, he’s lost five teeth now :).

More celebrating the start of 1st grade…and I’m not sure I could be more in love with Jeremy right here.  He’s the best daddy!

Waiting in line to go to his first class!  He’s a big boy now!  He has a “specials” class that he rotates through every six weeks, alternating with music, P.E., science lab, writers workshop, and media…he loves learning so much!

His buddy at school had been sick for a few days, so Asher made a video to cheer him up :).

Asher has been learning all about birds this first quarter. We had his first “Cottage Fair” when all the parents get to come in and have a little presentation from the class, sharing all they’ve been learning about this first quarter. Here are a few songs they sang for us…could Asher look any happier :).

Speaking of things I’ve failed to mention.  Beck has been in swimming lessons for a couple of months now, and he’s doing awesome!  Here’s his very first swim lesson.  I could watch his little leg kick and big smile at the end all day long!!!

We were so thrilled to get Mr. John as a swim teacher for Beck!  He’s the best!  He taught Asher how to swim, and so it’s extra sweet watching him with Beck too.

We also transitioned to a big boy bed!!!  Sheesh.  Talk about a transition I don’t want to do again, lol!  We were spoiled with him sleeping until 9:30am for almost a year…well, that gravy train came to a crashing halt when we said goodbye to the crib, ha!  We definitely can’t complain, because lil’ Punkers still holds the medal for best sleeping baby around :).  It is pretty fun getting to snuggle up with him and read at night though :).

He’s growing up fast!  He’s busy, and happy, and loud, and oh so loveable!

It’s been really rainy here this Summer, and we got the mother of all rain storms a few weeks ago.  Streets were flooded, and we gave Asher a rain day away from school and at home.  Jeremy and I grew up in the tundra, so we would have frequent snow days during the winter months, which was the best news ever as a kid!  So, it was fun to experience that with Asher on a different level :).

We’ve had so much fun during Fall Break.  The boys have gotten a lot of brother time together, and we’ve loved not having a schedule.  Asher is excited to go back to school, but it’s hard to find memories better than these…

Beck is now the rightful owner of Asher’s first bike and helmet.  It’s so sweet reliving these first memories with Beck again.

“A Pane!”