First Day of School

Here are some pictures from the first day of school. Notice how much bigger the smiles get after I step outside and onto the dead mole. It almost seems worth it in retrospect! Woogie is not in the most cooperative stage lately. I took them to get professional pictures taken a few weeks ago, and the pictures of all 3 of them together were going so badly, I suggested individual pictures instead. Well, Woogie would NOT smile. She was acting as if she had no idea how to hold her face normally now that she was in front of a camera - making her eyes too wide, making faces, frowning, scowling, etc., etc. VERY frustrating! Finally, I said "The sooner you cooperate and smile, the sooner we go to McDonald's for lunch." She instantly, tipped her head really cute and smiled a darling smile - and we had the best picture of the whole day! Even the photographer cracked up! Wish I'd thought of that sooner... Also, notice her new toothless smile!

Meatball isn't going to school quite yet, but he didn't want to be left out of the pictures! At least one of them still enjoys having their picture taken...

We had a fabulous (and exhausting!) camping trip to the mountains this past weekend. The camera battery died while we were there (I forgot to charge it before we went :-( ). But I'll have to post some pictures and more about it soon.