Fill The Bus

This morning Lily woke up at 6:45 am!! (yes, I had to include the "am" since it is not a time I am very familiar with) :) Thankfully we had plans this afternoon, so it wasn't that long of a morning. We went with the MOMS Club to "Fill The Bus". Every year the Community Outreach Program collects donations of school supplies for low income families. I remember MOMS Club helped out last year, but Lily and I didn't make it for some reason, but this year we decided to participate -- especially with all the sales on school supplies at Target and Wal-Mart. I got crayons for a quarter and spiral notebooks for 15 cents. The few dollars I spent helping out others were worth it just to let Lily play on the bus -- she LOVED that part!! Throughout the month of August the bus is parked in different locations around town for you to bring in supplies. Today it was in front of a furniture store, which happens to have an Italian restaurant inside (random, I know), so we planned on getting pizza after we played on the bus. Of course the restaurant is closed on Mondays, so we all walked down to a hamburger joint (with the best fries ever) for lunch. It was nice outing and Lily is still talking about driving the bus!

Paining at 8am.

Finally ready to go out -- she wanted to pose with Amanda.

I asked her to smile and I got this goofy face!

"Looking up".

She usually looks down when I try to take her picture, so I always ask her to look up and she looks all the way up!

Lily and the school bus

(Not sure the names of the 2 older kids -- they are new to the group) Ava, Delia, Lily and Joseph.
Clockwise from top -- Grace G., Delia, Grace A., Ava, Davey, & Lily!

She may not look happy, but she really was having fun. It was a good thing there were other kids there, so she had to take turns driving the bus -- otherwise we may still be there!

Not the greatest shot -- but this is Lily throwing a penny into the fountain (in the furniture store -- hence the daybeds in the back) and making a wish. It is significant since it the first time she's ever thrown a coin into a fountain!

Lily eating lunch at the kids table. Of course, she didn't last that long there and ended up sitting at a table with me and Tara and the "babies" Luke and Lucy.