6th Birthday and IT'S BACK TO SCHOOL TIME!!!!

We celebrated Jake's 6th birthday last weekend with a Super Hero/Gymnastics party. It was a really great time and I think he got just about everything he had on his wish list.

Jake is officially a "big kid" now. He started the first grade last Wednesday with today being his first full day. This is his third year at St. Ambrose Catholic School - http://www.sashornets.org/

and to him is was like "old hat". He is in class with many friends from the last two classes and a few that he had hoped would be in his class. He seems to like his teacher and is very happy about the kids he is with. So, here's looking forward to another great year :-)

And...just for fun...It's super silly Claire~

I'm still here

Eye yi yi....
It's been a crazy few weeks. First I had the whole "Jake being sick" issue to deal with and then I started back to work and then we had Jake's birthday party and now that that is all past us...My teachers came back to work yesterday and we are moving several classrooms into brand new rooms and Jake has his first day back to school tomorrow!!!--Huh...I'm exhausted just typing it all.
But, ...my little boy is officially 6 years old and will start the first grade tomorrow. I can hardly believe it. Where does the time go?
With all the back to school goings on, I took both kids to get new hair cuts this afternoon and then to look for new school shoes for Claire. Why...because the kid has umpteen pairs of shoes in her closet??? Well...She has one pair of crocs, one pair of hot pink (open toe)sandals, one pair of jellies, one pair of bright red Mary Jane's, one pair of leopard print fleece shoes (just for fun), a new pair of white mary jane keds (these are fine), and new pair of pink shoes (because she wanted them and they are cute) and then two pairs of closed toe WHITE sandals and her WHITE t-strap mary jane shoes from the spring. Sounds like a lot, right????
Well... she can't wear crocs, jellies, or open toe shoes to school. The red ones are VERY red and are only good with certain things, and I grew up and the south and much to my husband's irritation, little girl's DO NOT WEAR WHITE after LABOR DAY!!!
Please fell free to comment. I need the support here.
This whole issue started because I couldn't find any Navy and or brown shoes for her today at all and I came home frustrated. So I am looking online.....