Getting Ready for School

I don't have any pictures to post, but will update you on the "Hamilton Happenings". We have been busy trying to get ready for school to start (Yes, we like to plan ahead). Last week we went and bought school supplies and did a little school clothes shopping. Grace and Olivia wear the same size pants and shirts, so they can share clothes, but we discovered that they can't share shoes. Olivia wears a size 4 and Grace wears a 2 1/2!!!! Needless to say, Olivia has outgrown all the cute shoes at Striderite! They are pretty pumped about sharing clothes, which brings me to our next "happening" in the Hamilton household.... Grace and Olivia have been sleeping in Olivia's room all summer in her double bed (very cute), and they have been begging Dan and I to share a room. They have picked out paint colors, drawn up diagrams of what they want the room to look like, the whole nine yards. I even found a white iron twin bed at an antique store this summer and bought it for Grace. Over the weekend, we were switching beds around, and now Emma is sleeping in Grace's "cottage" bed that Dan built for her a few years ago, and Olivia has moved into Grace's room (which is the biggest room), and Olivia's old room is the guest room with the set of twin beds in it that were Dan's when he was little. It seems like a waist to have an empty room, but the girls are really excited to share a room, and, honestly, I'm happy for them, because it's something I never got to do. It's fun, too, to see them excited and watch them make memories together. We are getting ready for Grace's 9th birthday on Friday. Grammy and Papa are coming!!! We'll have lots to post the end of the week!!!