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Gettin' Ready

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It's the last week of summer, what?! We had a very busy Wednesday night planned, and then I realized we also needed to squeeze in a trip to the elementary school to drop off Ava's school supplies. Ava was able to get everything settled into her desk, and then we zoomed off to the library, Target, and shoe shopping. Yesterday I added money to her online school lunch account, have the lunch menus ready to go, and even have our calendars filled in with all upcoming activities.

I need to buy a few clothes for her online, and we are set! Luckily, she has plenty of clothes to get her by until I'm able to finish that up. Lol.

Ava is ready and excited for school to start...and I'm excited to get back into a normal routine. And for my morning commute to go back to normal...I was driving her 20 minutes away every morning for childcare, and now she'll be back at her school, which is only a few miles away. Scott's pretty happy about that, too, since he does the pickup every day!

Even Ava was looking for ways to get the morning to run more smoothly...when I came upstairs from time on my treadmill earlier this week, I found these three notes on the basement door. I love this girl!

It's slow going on the potty training front. G is still struggling with the #2 situation, even though he's fully aware when he's having an accident. We keep trying different things to get him to go to the bathroom, but...it's not going so well. Oh well...he'll get there!
To help celebrate the end of summer, we are having some neighbors and friends over for a feast this afternoon/evening. We have a ton of meat that Scott is prepping to smoke today, and some simple sides. Hoping the weather is sunny and nice so we can enjoy the last days of this season. We need to soak in the warmth while we have it!

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