Are You My Sissy?

2 year old Z can say all of our names except for M.  Instead she calls her "sissy".
This morning we were going through everyone's names.
I asked Z, "Where's L? Can you say L?"
"Where's M? Can you say M"
And she says "sissy"
She also calls my mom, Grandma M, "sissy".  So I mentioned  that to her.
Then she says "L sissy"
"Me sissy"
"Momma sissy"
All in her cuteness.

I Lost the Track

"I like starting school before Labor Day 

but this year it may need to start after Labor Day"- me

When I discovered I was expecting I jumped on the planning track.  I needed to figure out how we could get the most out of our school year before the beginning of March.  I was due in the middle of March and could realistically give myself a month off before needing to start full time school again.  There's nothing like a mid-school due date to throw a homeschool mother into planning mode.  I was planning to start the second week of August-then the bleeding started and I miscarried and since then my planning has lacked muster.  It's expected that it would be hard to get back on track but seriously, it's not like I can't plan.  I need to plan.  I cannot let myself get totally off track.  So, very slowly, I've planned. So slowly that we might have to *gasp* start after Labor Day.  It is really not a capital offensive but I have never in the history of homeschooling(going on our third year) started schooling after Labor Day.

 I believe starting school after Labor Day is a Michigan thing. We began our homeschool journey in Oklahoma where public school starts the second week of August.  So naturally we have started mid August.  I have loved the extra week or two of time that it has given us to take off during the year.  I seriously would LOVE to end school at the end of May but you really can't do that unless you start school early then stay on track.  So that is our goal... staying on track if I can, somehow, find the track to stay on.  

Fun In The Sun- beach time photos

While on vacation in Ludington we spent some time on the beach taking photos.

I started taking pictures of Z first, it was her birthday.

 I wanted to get some shots before she got grumpy(it was bedtime)

Then I took some of M, L and N in that order. 

Next was group photos which honesty did not go well, 

they were goofy by this point and did not want to listen.

Cute goofy.

`Group black and white

 Colors.  

The sunset was amazing and gave us excellent lighting.

I just started editing with Lightroom 5 so I tried some presets out.

 Middles

 Youngest and Oldest

My most favorite of the night!

A more cars

Z is upstairs on a mission.  She quickly enters the bedroom she shares with her older brother and is struggling to push the bin back on the shelf, all the while uttering the same phrase over and over.
I don't understand her utterances but help her push the bin back.
Her hands are full of matchbox cars.
She then leaves her room and starts heading down the hall towards the stairs.
M comes upstairs and she informs me they are having a rubber band car race(whatever that is).
It is then that I realize Z was saying, "a more cars, a more cars, a more cars" over and over again.

N Saying

N "I don't want a Disney Princess! I want a boy princess!"