September 2011

This September Macy turned 5.  I can't believe it's been 5 years already.  In true Harding fashion we couldn't just celebrate her birthday once, we celebrated 4 times.  The first was a shared birthday party with her bff Alexis to the theme of Jake & the Neverland Pirates.  See August for those pictures.  The second was a couple days before her actual birthday she had her bffs Avery & Alexis sleep over.  She wanted to do a camp out, but we compromised with a "camp in" which was tents set up in the playroom.  The girls were super excited about that.  In the morning we had cake for breakfast which Macy requested another rainbow cake which she had been begging me for since her 4th birthday.  On her actual birthday she had preschool orientation for her new school, so the next day which was the 1st day of school, they celebrated with cupcakes that we brought.  Her last celebration was with Grandma, Grandpa, Auntie Robyn, Uncle Rich and Cousin Tori that was a Hello Kitty cake.  After all those cakes I'm thinking I should have become a baker.  We also went on a fall farm tour where we learned that Tyler is in love with pigs.  He tried to climb into the pig pens more than once.  We also got extremely lucky and were at one farm 20 minutes after babies were born, so we got to peek in at the newbies.  At another farm we got to watch a baby chick coming out of its shell. It was a pretty exciting farm tour this time around.  We also had a tag along, Batman, Macy's class pet.  Every week someone takes the dog home and takes pictures and writes about his experiences with them. Since then, Tyler has requested to be batman for Halloween.  I'm not sure if he wants to be a dog or the actual batman because as far as I know he's never seen the real batman cartoon.  Macy is going to be a Marie, a white kitten, from the Aristocats.  Macy and Tyler both started their new school which is at our church. I was floored with how willingly Macy went into the room the first day.  I expected a little hesitation, but she pushed a parent out of the way and ran in before I could even say goodbye.  Tyler was so excited at his orientation that he ran in and gave the first adult he saw a hug.  He loves school and the only problems I have are on Mondays and Wednesdays when Macy goes to school, but he does not.

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