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First Day of Kindergarten- Eva

Eva goes to kindergarten!!!!!
She's sportin' the Hannah Montana backpack that she picked out. She loved kindergarten and had a great time... eventhough we were LATE on the first day. I didn't know about the traffic jams that would occur on the first day. It took us 25 minutes to get there on Thursday (first day), today it took me 5 minutes. I was also there 30 minutes early today (Friday) because I was so horrified about being late. Eva's dad escorted her and Travis in the Bob Hummer to the first day of school and I followed behind with Lukey.

Eva by her locker after school.

I thought that I might make it through the drop-off OK because I was just so pissed and overwhelmed by being late. But, then it was time to give her a hug and leave and I started crying and crying. Her teacher said "Ohhhhh, I'll take good care of her, I promise." How sweet is that? Then I walk out the door and Chris hands me the phone and I'm live on the air and crying. Nice. I guess I was holding this cute baby who was eating my keys the entire time? I don't even remember holding him?

Then after school, as I'm just feeling like such an idiot and so out of place because I've never done any of this before... we see Eva's friend, Emma Critelli, and her brother waiting for a ride. Eva and Emma will be carpooling this year, but Emma is in first grade. Anyways, we see Emmaand she's wearing the same first day of school outfit! Tennis shoes with anklets, leggings, a dress and pigtails. Too cute!

Hanson family

Luke Gerard Hanson- 5 months old.

Luke- 5 months, Chris, Eva- 5 years, Erika and Travis- 3 years. At my brother, Adam's, wedding.

Supergirl

Chris just looked at this and said "OH NO. WHAT IS HE DOING?" He really didn't notice the dress, he just wanted the cape. Probably not a good thing that both of my recent blogs have had my boys in girl's clothing?

Eva, Travis and Emma. At least Travis is holding a sword?

Jen Hoffmann, Ingrid Kemp and me. Chris said when he took this picture "just like every other picture I've seen from college." I thought that was quite a compliment to us! From taking 2 hours getting ready in the evenings to go out (while drinking) back in the day.......... to showering kids in the locker room at the pool in minutes (while drinking). HA!

The kids and I went to the Minnesota zoo with Sue and Andrew. Sue and Andrew left before everyone was so tired that they had to all get in my one stroller.

Luke is so easy that he just falls asleep while playing. Also, his nap schedule is last on our list of things to do usually, so he just sleeps wherever.

Then again, when you have entertainment like this, why would you ever need to complain?

Eva, Luke, Andrew Evens, and Travis.

Travis teaching Andrew how to be ridiculously stupid. Andrew, you're going to have to practice a long time to get this dumb.

Pretty boy Lukey

I really think that Eva (top) actually looks more like a boy than Luke does if you just had to guess which one was the boy? Luke is about 1-2 month older than Eva was in this picture I tortured him with by dressing him like a girl. The eye color is really the main thing different between these two?

All three kids at 6-7 mos. Luke definitely looks more Buckhouse than the other two ever did with that long, narrower face he has. When I look at Luke, I always think he looks just like Eva. But in these pics, I really think Eva and Travis look the most alike. I couldn't find a picture of Travis in that Vikings outfit. I also couldn't find a picture of Travis without a bib or drool running down his poor little messed-up mouth.

This is the beautiful woman, Sheena, that my brother, Adam, is marrying on May 31st. He must be so, so, so busy with wedding planning.... maybe getting a pedicure or something.... because otherwise he would never forget to call one of his nephews on their birthday?

Travis turns 3 years old already!!!!!!!! Which means that he gets to have his first "friends" party in our house. From left, Jamie and Cayden from daycare, Eva, Travis, Colten from daycare, Brady our neighbor, and a PT friend's son, Kaden.

Chris doing a "mission" of a scavenger hunt with the kids. Although, they found the rocket that they were looking for before the game even started. Chris showed outstanding parenting skills to keep them going at the game however.

Playing the infamous "raise your hand if...." game. The problem was that the 3 year olds in the bunch, Travis, Jamie and Colten, raised their hands for every question and got the wrath of Eva on them.

Colten, Cayden and Travis. I was way more into the "little einstein" themed birthday party that Travis picked in comparison to Eva's "barbie and the island princess" birthday theme, as you can see by all the stuff I bought a month ago. You can also see the beautiful apron that says "best mom hands down" that my children made for me for Mother's day at Sheila's (daycare.) Yes, that woman had her 8 daycare children all paint their hands and make aprons. That woman is a saint!!!!!!!

See what I mean by getting into the Little Einstein theme? I borrowed a bunch of music stuff from the music teacher at Casselton to decorate with. Love it!

What do ya gotta do at a Little Einstein's birthday party? Listen to classical music and play your instruments! Above is Kaden.....

and this is our neighbor, Brady. Our house did sell.... which is yippee skippy because if I had to clean this house one more time I would go insane... but it's sad because we'll be leaving awesome neighbors. Just to make me feel even more sad about it, Brady gave Travis a truckload of presents, including a lawn mower bubble blower that Travis always plays with at Brady's house but will soon need his own. That part just stinks. Eva will be leaving a best little girl friend too. But, I am so glad that it is over with selling the house. We close on June 15th and hope to be moved in on Memorial Weekend (that will never happen, but Chris seems to think it will.........)

Travis' Buckhouse birthday with Grandpa Gerry and Grandma Tree at Space Awiens.

I cut off 10" of hair and donated it. I wanted to just go shoulder length, but I figured I'd just go as short as I could stand so I had more to donate. One of my forgetful friends asked me how I was styling it? Silly, silly, silly, forgetful friend.....style is not part of my daily language. HOWEVER if I were going to style it, which I might do once or twice, I would straighten it and it would look so pretty like it did when I left the salon. Alas, it will be stuck in a clip and frizzy and curly, just like when it was long. It's nice to not have baby barf in it though.

So, also for mothers day, Eva made this thing at school. It was a fill in the blank questionaire that her teacher helped her fill out. Statements like "my mom's favorite color is_____" and "my mom's favorite food is_______." Well, the first one was "My mom is very______"..........

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Eva said "My mom is very hungry." She said "I was going to put beautiful, but I thought hungry was better." I think I scarred her vision of me forever with all the food I ate while pregnant with Luke.

Travis' birthday party at the lake with the cake Grandma Lois made for him. Travis said the funniest Chris thing ever. Now, I would expect this out of a 5 or 6 year old, but not a three year old. He likes to stick food on his face and say "wook mom, wook" (Translation for those of you without toddlers "look mom, look") because that's just so hilarious to him. Anyways, he was sticking marshmallows on his face and says "wook mom." I say "I'm not going to look if it's stupid." He takes the marshmallows off his lips and says "It's not stupid, it's funny." I had to look twice to make sure Chris wasn't sitting there.

Travis and the green truck with motorcycles that he got from Grandpa Clint and Granma Lois.

Jack, Cody, Travis and Jed (the Hanson cousins) all at the lake playing UNO.

The kids going in to greet Lukey in the morning. They're so sweet!

You wouldn't believe how excited Eva and Travis were to have Lukey watch his first Baby Einstein video. This is the movie theater that they set up for the occasion.

This is a great pic of Luke's crazy hair. And a great pic of him struggling, struggling on his tummy because he is 4 1/2 months old and really can't roll over yet and is a pediatric physical therapist's son....... at least he's my third weakling so I'm not that concerned.

Luke and Travis in their bibs.

This is a cute baby. I like him lots.

Erika