Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Monday, October 3, 2011
Well it's been quite some time since we've updated the ole blog. Paul and I are still not on facebook and will probably remain that way, so I better start updating this a bit more often so that everyone can see how quickly the kids are growing.
I'll just give a quick rundown of the happenings with the kids as there have been major changes this new school year at our house:
Austin - he's now a freshman at Dowling! I still shake my head when I say that. Prior to this year he's only gone to one other school so this is huge for us all. He went from a class size of 18 to 350! So far it's gone very well. He loves the whole thing...except homework. He is making lots of new friends and is very busy. He played on the freshman golf team (the season just wrapped up last week) and is involved in weightlifting and open diamond (for baseball - yes baseball already!) 5 days a week.
Kale - he is in kindergarten! Again, I still shake my head at saying that, where did the time go! Kale and Austin started their new schools the same day...needless to say it was a little emotional at our house that day. Kale started the school year with his arm in a cast above his elbow due to a fall from a slide at daycare - his left arm - and he's left-handed. So that presented its own set of challenges and frustrations for him, topped with his all go all the time personality, it's been a bumpy ride so far. I'm hoping that we can look back on these days and laugh about some of the notes and phone calls that we've gotten from his teachers. Kale's also playing soccer this fall and really enjoys that.
Alivia - she's turning 4 later this month and is still probably the most girly girl I have ever met. Alivia was not happy about the fact that the boys got to go to new schools this fall and she didn't, but she's starting to adjust. She has also been interested in Kale's daily report from school and this morning gave him quite a pep talk to stay on green all day at school. She started ballet lessons last week and went in the studio with the biggest smile on her face and came out when her lesson was done with an even bigger smile. She absolutely loves it! My hope of a softball player is fading, oh well. We planted a few trees last week and of course they have names...Rapunzel and Ariel...can you guess who came up with the names?
So as always the kids are keeping us very busy, which leaves time for little else. We had fun summer at the lake and with the new house we look forward to getting away to there every once in a while throughout the fall and winter.
Pictures coming soon.
I'll just give a quick rundown of the happenings with the kids as there have been major changes this new school year at our house:
Austin - he's now a freshman at Dowling! I still shake my head when I say that. Prior to this year he's only gone to one other school so this is huge for us all. He went from a class size of 18 to 350! So far it's gone very well. He loves the whole thing...except homework. He is making lots of new friends and is very busy. He played on the freshman golf team (the season just wrapped up last week) and is involved in weightlifting and open diamond (for baseball - yes baseball already!) 5 days a week.
Kale - he is in kindergarten! Again, I still shake my head at saying that, where did the time go! Kale and Austin started their new schools the same day...needless to say it was a little emotional at our house that day. Kale started the school year with his arm in a cast above his elbow due to a fall from a slide at daycare - his left arm - and he's left-handed. So that presented its own set of challenges and frustrations for him, topped with his all go all the time personality, it's been a bumpy ride so far. I'm hoping that we can look back on these days and laugh about some of the notes and phone calls that we've gotten from his teachers. Kale's also playing soccer this fall and really enjoys that.
Alivia - she's turning 4 later this month and is still probably the most girly girl I have ever met. Alivia was not happy about the fact that the boys got to go to new schools this fall and she didn't, but she's starting to adjust. She has also been interested in Kale's daily report from school and this morning gave him quite a pep talk to stay on green all day at school. She started ballet lessons last week and went in the studio with the biggest smile on her face and came out when her lesson was done with an even bigger smile. She absolutely loves it! My hope of a softball player is fading, oh well. We planted a few trees last week and of course they have names...Rapunzel and Ariel...can you guess who came up with the names?
So as always the kids are keeping us very busy, which leaves time for little else. We had fun summer at the lake and with the new house we look forward to getting away to there every once in a while throughout the fall and winter.
Pictures coming soon.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Kale's first ball game
We decided to sign Kale up for bambam baseball this year. He was so excited to finally get to go to HIS game. Austin is the "coach" on 2nd base...poor kid, he's a good sport with Kale. At the end of the video Kale is trying to make his fingers be like what Kick Buttowski does (he's a character on a Disney cartoon that Kale loves)...it's kind of like the "hook em horns" with the pinky and index fingers and thumb out. He's having a little trouble at the end figuring out which fingers go up and which go down. Enjoy.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Milestones
Sometimes I feel guilty like I'm wishing away their lives thinking if only Kale/Alivia were this old then life would be so much easier. And it seems that those ages that I find myself wishing for come and go without us even noticing.
We've hit a few milestones at our house. First the baby gates have been put away. You can freely move up and down stairs at our house without having to figure out how to open the darned gate anymore. Now we can sneak up the stairs to check on the kids without them getting the warning from the squeeky gate that we are coming...ah the power.
Our second milestone is Miss Alivia is potty trained. Kale's potty training experience/nightmare left us thinking if we had only one in diapers for the rest of our lives that was good enough for us. But true to form, Alivia will not be outdone by her brother. We were so drained (no pun intended) from Kale that we weren't even close to thinking about starting her but she did pretty much did it all on her own. Luckily she only wanted to stand up to potty once and we were able to talk her out of it. Hopefully soon we'll get to put that disgusting potty chair in the garbage and then we'll be set!
We're all feeling so grown up now we may even attempt restaurants...on second thought, maybe in another year.
We've hit a few milestones at our house. First the baby gates have been put away. You can freely move up and down stairs at our house without having to figure out how to open the darned gate anymore. Now we can sneak up the stairs to check on the kids without them getting the warning from the squeeky gate that we are coming...ah the power.
Our second milestone is Miss Alivia is potty trained. Kale's potty training experience/nightmare left us thinking if we had only one in diapers for the rest of our lives that was good enough for us. But true to form, Alivia will not be outdone by her brother. We were so drained (no pun intended) from Kale that we weren't even close to thinking about starting her but she did pretty much did it all on her own. Luckily she only wanted to stand up to potty once and we were able to talk her out of it. Hopefully soon we'll get to put that disgusting potty chair in the garbage and then we'll be set!
We're all feeling so grown up now we may even attempt restaurants...on second thought, maybe in another year.
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