a busy friday

This is just our typical Jacob. I turned around to find this:
Our Friday was a busy Friday. We started out with a Terrific Kids ceremony for Josh @ school. Their school has a ceremony and then serves a small breakfast. We are very proud of Josh and his wonderful accomplishments. His teacher had some really kind words to say about him. Way to go Josh!

Josh was a bit nervous when accepting his certificate, pencil, and bumper sticker.

Once the ceremony was completed we then had to race to a lab to have some blood work done for Miss Penny. She was a trooper and thankfully there was a spare pair of hands to help hold her down. She was so upset. Of course, in true big brother style, Jacob laughed. Penny didn't even want the nurse to put a band aid on her after she was done. When we were leaving the building, Penny was still crying and screaming, but screaming for her Dadda. I felt really small. I know though had Clyde taken her for blood work, she wouldn't have spoken to him for a week.

After blood work, we went home for speech. We ended up planting a few veggies. I do think it is still a bit early, but will hope that the few that we planted will start to sprout.

Once speech was over, we went to the farmers market with the E family. We really enjoy the farmers market. My favorite part is this little shop that sells some nice black licorice bites.

(Penny's speech teacher gave her this really cute yellow rain jacket & a yellow duck umbrella. She carried the umbrella around everywhere yesterday and only took the raincoat off when she became too hot to wear it. This girl loves yellow!)

We made it home in time to open the door for the older Wardlings to get off the bus. We had a bit of a breather, when a friend called to remind me about the Family Support Network's annual Children's Museum Night. We hurried to get our shoes on and we were out the door again for some family fun @ the Museum. Clyde and Erin met us there on their way home from school. The Wardlings loved the museum. After we checked in Penny ran into the market of the museum. She was really excited to play. In the dr's office, in the museum, Clyde found a shot needle and thought that Penny would totally flip, since she had just had blood work herself, but instead Penny was brave and stuck out her arm like a pro. The boys were total monkeys climbing on everything. The big girls played just as hard as everyone else. It was a fun nite. I was so exhausted from our day, that I put myself to bed around 8:30; haven't done that in a long time. It felt really nice.