A weekend of firsts!

We had a great weekend! We started it off on Friday morning by getting up bright and early and driving to Asheboro to see my sister give a speech for the entire Asheboro City School system. She won the Apple of Excellence Award for the district which is the 1st Year Teacher of the Year. So I got Kelsie up and put her in the car at 6:30am and we drove to Asheboro where we met Valerie for breakfast. Which I believe was Kelsie's first breakfast out! Then we saw Valerie give her speech and I cried the whole way through. I was just beaming with pride. She is such an amazing teacher and she did such an amazing job portraying her passion for teaching and her genuine love and concern for her students. I will try to post her speech in my blog later for anyone interested in hearing it! Grandma and grandpa were there for the speech too so Kelsie enjoyed playing with them as well!

Nathan was gone for the week away on business so we were excited to have him back home Friday evening!

On Saturday we took Kelsie to get her first haircut! Her grandmas have been bugging us for more than 6 months about getting her bangs cut and we have gone back and forth about it. We know its long in the front and gets in her eyes but if we just keep it pulled back, its fine. But it needed to be shaped up so we took her anyway. The lady at the hair salon first said we shouldn't do bangs, just pull her hair back to keep it out of her eyes and just let her hair figure out which way it wanted to go. But then she started messing with it and said she could do a few little bangs if we wanted, so we just went with it and needless to say, she ended up with bangs... against our better judgment. :( Now neither of us really like it and are just ready for them to grow! Oh well, it doesn't bother her either way! So its no big deal. She's CUTE no matter what!

Before...

Enjoying her very first sucker that the hairdresser gave her to keep her still.

After!

new bangs and also trying on a new fall outfit! :)

We also turned her carseat around to face forward for the first time!! She looks like such a big girl now!

And she also went to Sunday School for the first time! Now that she has dropped that morning nap, we tried it out today. And I put her in the 2-4yr old class because there is an age gap at the church and there aren't any kids her age right now. I thought she would do better in that class for 2 hours with the other kids rather than in a room by herself with a couple of adults. She doesn't quite have the attention span for that class yet but still did pretty well. I stayed in there today to see how she would do and I think it went ok. She sat in the chair for the lesson for a good while but not as long as the others. But she did sit and do her craft (with me assisting) and sat in her seat for snack. She was more interested in playing than sitting back in the circle for music time, but hopefully she will get used to that structure with more time.