Today was the first day of school for both me and Conner. I think for some reason he was much more excited about his new school year than I was!

We stayed pretty busy right up until the end. It got to be, though, that the kids didn't want to go places like King's Island or Coney Island. I guess they were getting tired of our summer "routine"!

Here are some random pictures that finish out our break:

Aud napping on the couch Sunday afternoon. We went to the Creation Museum with some small group friends - she was definitely worn out!






Conner playing at Coney.










At KI a couple of weeks ago.









The boys had a camp-out in the backyard one night. Conner: "You made my dreams come true!" He loved it, obviously.







We went to the Children's Museum last week... the kids had a ball. Here they are checking out the turtles and the "fishies".







At the Creation Museum on Sunday.

The end-of-summer countdown has begun. :( I feel like I only have a few more days with the kids and am not looking forward to that ending!

Today I took Conner to King's Island with our friends Noah (turned 5 in June) and Cheryl. Audrey went to play at Shannan's (and seemed to have a great time with her daughter Ashley!). We started out our day at the water park, where the boys ran around and swam, and then we all went down some of the bigger slides. After stopping for lunch, we took the train over to the main park and rode some rides. Conner and I enjoyed the log ride (Noah didn't want to go) where we didn't get too wet (fortunate since we'd changed our clothes!). After doing a few more rides and enjoying some ice cream, we took the train back to the waterpark and headed home. The boys (and moms) were obviously tired, but Conner decided that he wanted to go to church for his last night of kiddie-venture (VBS for 3 -5 yr olds).

I think we'll end up at Coney for the next couple of days (we went yesterday, too), but I'd still like to find a day next week to take Conner to KI just the two of us - though I feel bad leaving Audrey again for the whole day! We'll see.

Aud took her nap today at Shannan's without her paci. I guess that means that I should try and get rid of it at home! She went to bed tonight with a paci that she doesn't like that much (and never asked for the others)... maybe I can ease her out of them?

We got a letter from Conner's school about what's going to happen in the next couple of weeks. He goes next Friday morning (on the bus) for screenings and doesn't have school on Monday (the 24th), then we'll go Monday night to an Open House to find out who his teacher is and see the classroom. Tuesday's the big first day! I think he'll really enjoy it; I'm just not looking forward to packing a lunch for him almost daily!

I set my alarm this morning (for 8:30 :) ) and ended up taking the kids up to King's Island. We never actually went to that park itself, but went to Boomerang Bay, the water park that's attached. I figured that if it ended up not being hot/nice enough to go swimming then we could just head over to the other side and ride some rides.

Luckily, it ended up being a beautiful day (finally!). We were there for about 2 hours and hit most of the pools. Audrey actually did a bunch of different slides (which she's resisted the past couple of times we've been there) and had a ball. It was a great morning!

We didn't get our picture taken today, but this is the picture from the last time we went (at the end of July).It's the cheesy one that they take as you walk in the park. I never buy them, but now that they have them available online I save my ticket and get a copy of it from the website (using a cool "snipping tool" that I have on my computer).

The weather's been pretty stinky lately, so we haven't done a lot... not even Coney! The kids went up to the cottage last weekend with Mom & Dad (though they came home earlier on Sunday than they'd planned because of the rain). I have to admit that it was pretty nice to be childless for a few days! Eric and I actually had to set an alarm to get up in time for church on Sunday.

The nicest day this week, Monday, we didn't get a chance to really do anything either. I drove up to Jeffersonville and met Mom with the kids for lunch and didn't leave until about 1:30. I'd been hoping to stop at King's Island on the way home for a bit, but both kids were sleeping pretty good when we drove by. I figured that I shouldn't waste the moment.

Yesterday it rained. All day. We met a friend for lunch at 12:30 then came home so Aud could nap.

Today didn't start out too promising. It was gray and looked like it would rain but never did. It probably would've been a great day to go to the zoo or King's Island, but I was supposed to have a computer thing at 10:00 for a class that I took (although there were issues with the website and it never happened). We just hung out here, watched Pinocchio and Peter Pan (picked them up yesterday at the library), I did some cleaning in preparation for our friends coming over tomorrow for group, and Audrey slept all afternoon. I've let her wear panties for her nap 3 times... she's been dry once. If she's wearing a pull-up or diaper, though, chances are it'll be dry. I guess she just wants her sheets washed! Today turned out to be a 3.5 hour nap, so I knew that chances were slim that she'd make it through. And I was right!

Eric stopped by quickly to take a shower, then took off again to get his hair cut and go to Kroger's. The kids were driving me crazy (especially Audrey... I think Conner's selective hearing has been passed on!), so after dinner we went for a nice long walk up to see the cows. It was pretty cool - there were a bunch out eating, so the three of us stood by the fence for a bit to watch them. Two of the calves actually came over close to us (probably within 5 feet) and just started staring. It was neat! Something startled them, though, and they took off without getting any closer.

On the walk home, Audrey was saying that the cows were eating. I asked her what they were eating, and she said, "Grass." Then I asked her if she liked to eat grass - I got a resounding "No!" When I asked her what she likes to eat, she told me "Dinner."