fundraiser

Sorry this is a boring post...Andrew's school is doing a fundraiser, it's magazines (including renewals) and wrapping paper and some other things... Here's their plug if anyone is interested...

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First Grade!!!

If anyone remembers, last year Drew entering kindergarden was pretty traumatic for me (and Austin). We had tears for the first day (although Drew did not....he was excited).
This year was much easier....although harder to believe he's in First Grade! That's a real grade! Even though Austin claimed to be excited about Drew going back to school, he told me on the way home he missed Drew. So far Drew says his teacher is nice, and he's having fun. There are only 3 other kids from his Kindergarden class with him, so we have a lot of new faces.

Here's some pictures from the first day. You can see he has his own desk this year...not a table! He immediately started organizing his stuff when we got there...

Autographs

Mizzou had a day last week that you could come get autographs from all the players on the football team. Randy wanted to go and bring the boys....which they loved because they got to go on the real field! As we got there they were giving out posters, so I got one for Drew, and he had the best time getting autographs! There were lots of underclassmen on the field that had no line (because they haven't played yet) and Drew had a great time going up to them....they were real football players! Randy got there early to wait in Chase Daniel's line(he's the quarterback), and we caught up with him just in time for Drew to get his and some of the ohter "real " players autographs. He was talking to them all, and they all told him how cool his spiderman sunglasses were... He really had a good time!
Austin ran all over the field with our neighbor, Logan, and had a good time- he really didn't care about the autographs...
The boys with the mascot Truman...
Andrw and Chase Daniels conversing...
getting more autographs with Dad...

running on the field...

Train and Fair

What a weekend! Thursday we took the train out of Jeff Ctiy to Washington. After a 2 hour delay, we had a great trip out there... and then the boys got to go to the Town and Country Fair.... to say they had fun was an understatement!

They loved the caterpillar roller coaster...you can see the boys screaming!

Austin playing in a huge "corn box"

Thanks Papa (and Oma) for taking us to the fair!

Some I missed

here's some pics from the last 2 weeks I meant to post....these are from Drew's last t-ball game...he got his medal....
With some of his teamates, Keith, Kyle K, and Adam (Keith and Kyle were in his Kindergarden class)

with Mason, our neighbor...

Here's Austin at the dentist getting his teeth cleaned....he was an excellent patient!

The light was so bright they gave him some sunglasses to wear!