Well, I think Stephen and I are entering a new phase of our lives...Pryor has gone one whole week without potty accidents! He got the red gun above after one whole day of staying clean. Today, he got the blue gun (same idea, different color) for staying clean for one whole week!! 
I questioned whether it would ever happen because he has been SO stubborn about going potty. However, he has almost completely figured it out. Whoo hoooo!! Now this is a cause for celebration!
Mrs. Jockel has been teaching for many years and is a former Marine. She had the children do a sound off as they lined up for the door. If I had realized what they were going to do - I would have videoed it! It was pretty cute!
Mrs. Rich has been a great teacher for Alice so far. She works closely with the other first grade teacher (whom Grady had last year) so she is having a similar experience to Grady. He is *always* pointing out that he has already studied/learned/seen whatever Alice talks about first grade. Ah, siblings!
We went to the Westmoreland County fair and had a fabulous time! There was a huge field filled with all sorts of tractors and equipment. The children had a field day!
Alice was just as anxious as the boys to sit in the seats. Unfortunately, the horns still worked. So it would get *very* noisy if a child figured out how to blow the horn!
Pryor thought he had died and gone to heaven! We had to peal him away from this area to go explore the rest of the fair. We came back to the tractors at the end, and literally had to carry him to the car. He was not happy to leave!
The children's tent had several activities, one of them being "milk a cow." My parents took me to the Illinois state fair when I was young and I remember when milking a cow meant touching a live cow! This "cow" at least had real milk. 
Stephen and Grady put together a "treasure box." We thought we'd be there for ever but it only took them about fifteen minutes. Grady was so excited to do this! Especially with his Daddy!
Here is the terrible twosome having at this project. Of course Pryor wanted to "help." We could only "milk the cow" for so long! HA! I love this picture because the way they were sitting really highlights their casts. Of course this was a week and a half ago when they still had the casts on. Ah, those were the good old days! HA HA!
We transformed the playroom into a royal dressing room for Alice's birthday party. I covered the love seat with a pink blanket and brought down *all* (and that's a lot!) of Alice's dress up stuff and baby dolls. She helped me arrange everything - hence all the shoes lined up neatly on the left!
We asked each girl to come in their favorite dress-up or party dress. The morning of the party, Alice decided to wear her matching party dress with Kit, her new American Girl doll.
Of course Alice's birthday cake was a princess Cinderella cake. It's hard to see all the details but she LOVED it. She studied the cake book at the bakery and thought about her choices for weeks! 
One of our activities for the party was dancing to the "Bella Dancerella: Disney Princess" DVD. Some of the girls really got into it - but some others ended up sitting on the couch and watching!
We also played "Pass the Crown" a la "Hot Potato." The children loved getting to control when the music started and stopped. We also did a couple of rounds of musical "thrones."
Alice's favorite part of her party was the pinata. You would think it was filled with diamonds! She was obsessed with it and talked about it when the girls first got there. I cut out the bottom and put strings on the flap - but only one had a knot that would pull the bottom of the pinata open. As it turned out, this little girl above was the last one to take a turn (unfortunately Grady didn't get a turn!) and pulled the string to open it up.
Bob the Builder was a big hit this year! He did like the picture in the cake book of Power Rangers - but Mama said no to that!
It took us a while, but we finally got him to hold up three fingers! He was so proud of himself.
I got this for his birthday - even before he got really into Bob the Builder! I definitely think this will be his Halloween costume! One night, he put the whole thing on himself - even getting it over his cast. He certainly is a big boy. I can't believe he is already three years old!