First day of School!

Yes, I'm aware that it's Oct. 21st. And school started Sept 8th. What can I say, I'm just that lame...

Anyway, here are the cute photo's of Lexie's first day of school. A couple points:

• I really wanted her to have cute hair for at least ONE day of school. So used the curling iron to flip it up. Cute, right? Well, after I was pretty much all done, just doing the 'finishing touches', Lexie turned her head at the wrong moment and burned her cheek. THAT is that fun red mark you'll see in the pictures. So, end result: Cute hair, big obnoxious welt.
• Don't you love how Lexie's backpack is bigger than she is?
• Yes, I'm barefoot getting her on the bus. Now that it's colder, I'm usually in just my socks. I guess when it starts to snow I'll have to put shoes on to send her off to school.
• I thought we should get up some of the last pics taken of Seth before we cut his hair. Sigh... I had such high hopes for that long hair, but it never turned out. Love his new buzzed look now, though. I'll post some of those pics when we, uh, find our camera.

Lexie and Wayne's 15 minutes of FAME...

... okay, so maybe it was more like 15 seconds. If we're generous.

One of the parent's at Lexie's school nominated their teacher's for KSL's High 5, which honors people in the community. They really deserved it; the teacher's at Utah School for the Deaf South have made an amazing inpact on our lives. Before Lexie started school last year, she was literally NOT talking. And now I can actually communicate, even on a limited basis, with my child. I can't even imagine where she'll be once she's through the system. There's very little footage of Wayne and Lex (he said she was camera shy. Go figure), but it's still a great story:

Video Courtesy of KSL.com