Kindergarten

Well today was the first day of Morgan's FULL day kindergarten! She is so big and I can't believe I have a kid that goes to school now. I never thought I'd be the mom to cry and get all emotional about her kids going to school because I was excited for her and I knew she'd love it. But, as the days grew closer I started getting a knot in my stomach. She would be gone away from me longer than she'd be with me during the week. The morning of we did her hair, which is a rare occurrence because she often doesn't let me do anything to her hair. I made a sign for her and she looked so cute with her big backpack.

Aubrey gave Morgan a hug as the bus was coming. It was cute but I missed it. Morgan ran to the bus and was the second person to get on. She was so excited for school. As she got on I got a little teary eyed, but held it together.

Here are all the kindergarten kids from our neighborhood. We have a lot of kids that are in kindergarten. Morgan's class has 7 of her friends in it. We thought it would be a problem but so far it has been fine. Her teacher is Mrs. Rogers and Morgan loves her. Her favorite subjects in school are art and music right now. She also loves having recess 3 times a day.

Aubrey is a little bored without Morgan and throughout the day asks me "where Morgy?" or "where she?". She's so cute.

Naughty

I had to document Aubrey's first real naughty moment. She got into Morgan's tooth paste and smeared on herself and all over the bathroom. And also got into my tape. She was pretty proud of herself. :)

Adel Corn Festival

This year I didn't get many pictures at the Corn festival because Aubrey wanted me to hold her a lot and Mike was away for 6 weeks on his audition rotations in California, Oklahoma, and West Virginia. But if you want to see what the Corn festival looks like you can see pictures from last year here or here . It's kind of neat to see how much Morgan changes from year to year. Thank goodness her hair has grown back. :)

This was our 3rd time going to the Adel Corn Festival and it was by far the best weather. Usually it's humid and so hot that you almost, and I stress almost, don't want eat piping hot corn.

The parade was fun and I even managed to convince Aubrey into letting me put her down long enough to have her grab some candy. She loves food so it was good motivation.

We were worried that there wouldn't be a corn festival this year because of the terrible drought that we had this summer. The crops in Iowa were down 50% and we thought they wouldn't be able to give away sweet corn. But I found out that there is land set aside especially for the corn festival. Even with the drought they still had 8 tons of corn to give out. Unlike years in the past where people could get as much corn as they wanted, they limited the corn to two ears per person. Morgan gobbled her two up in about 5 minutes and loved every bite of it. Aubrey ate good amount but wasn't really a fan of corn on the cobb i guess. She opted to having a Popsicle instead.

Sad to think this will be our last corn festival here in Iowa. It's been a fun and yummy tradition! :)