Greetings!
Because I have a nephew in Raleigh, North Carolina and a nephew in art school in Florida, I decided I needed to write a quick update so that they could get mail. I loved mail in college and when I was away from home!
Just a few things to note about our craziness…
1. The pool is nearly finished! We have our final inspection (the pre-plaster inspection for those who are knowledgeable about the process) tomorrow bright and early. It looks fantastic and I can’t wait to swim in ocean like temperatures! No, I think with the pool cover, we may get a few weeks of swimming in before the season is over. Mitch finished the front gate this weekend and it looks fabulous. The deck guys worked their tails off (and wore sweat shirts while they were doing it- I never figured that out!), the patio cover guys will install on Wednesday, and hopefully the gate gal can come soon after. Plaster will be here on Wednesday as well we hope. Landscaping we are holding a little because the guy we are having do it got a big bid with the city so it may be a few weeks before he can come. We are jazzed! Hope to have a party soon.
2. I taught preschool the last two weeks and we had a fabulous time! Gage did have meltdown one of the days because I did not select him as the weather wizard. Go figure? You think you know your child and, lo and behold, they pull a fast one on you. I felt a little bad since he missed making puppets, hot fudge sundaes, play time, and shaving cream handwriting. The tears and yelling began, and he cried for an hour in his room! Actually I know it sounds dreadful, but truly only dreadful for him. The remaining 7 of us had a terrific time. The kids are truly delightful. It will be a fun year! And then I began thinking about it…I will be teaching preschool for years and years more- funny how that works when you have so many children so close together. I do LOVE IT, though. It is joy- not dread. Jace fits so well with the group, and he does so well. I imagine he will be my earliest reader yet. I can’t help but think of how my sisters taught me how to read at just barely four as we played school each day.
3. Grey and Aiden are loving school as well! (It did not appear from item 2 that Gager loves school, but he truly does. That one day was merely a fluke.) Grey earned 14 hand stamps of a total of 14 hand stamps and can we say proud! Oh he was just beaming with accomplishment! He also comes home and reports to me details about Mrs. Bailey such as her son is also allergic to chocolate, she loves to eat healthy foods, she enjoys reading, and she wore a high school football jersey for spirit week. I hope she knows that she is the topic of nightly dinner. Aiden’s teacher, too, is a gem. She is tough, and Aiden is wiggling a little, but squirm is good. It stretches us. I am anxious to see his progress report. I hope he will be pleased. If it is not perfect, I am sure that he will seek to study more. He did get a perfect score on his spelling test so we got to enjoy ice cream. He has never had spelling tests before and he gets 25 words. He drones on about he will never remember which pattern to pick, but then he does by Thursday.
4. We had a Hat’s Off day for our spirit week where I joined the boys for “breakfast.” We enjoyed Krispy Kreme donuts and Sunny Delight on those crazy cafeteria tables where no adult should use unless no one is seated nearby. I feel like a contortionist every time I attempt to climb in them. I then sent off Aiden to a morning of assessment- nice, eh? Perhaps kids can live on sugar alone.
5. This weekend we enjoyed a PACKED Saturday. We delivered flyers to over 450 homes bright and early at 8:00 a.m. Jace loved getting people’s papers and placing them on the doorstep. Mitch put up the fence and put pavers and dirt under the wall. I went to a primary inservice and enjoyed breakfast with friends. We then loaded in the car for an afternoon at the Springs Preserve. Grandma joined us. It was a company appreciation day so we enjoyed crafts, snowcones, popcorn, and potential face painting, but the boys ALL said no thanks???!! We came home for just a little while and Jace and I ran to the grocery store. I got home put the food away, and we were off for a picnic dinner and a outdoor concert at the government amphitheatre to see Rockapella. It was a fun night. The boys loved it. Towards the end, they all fell asleep except for Gage and Cooper- I know-crazy. We had to wake the dead in Aiden and Grey and man, were they ticked at us. They made it though and Mitch and I fell asleep the instant our heads hit the pillows.
6. Cooper is still not walking- YES! He is my latest walker yet. He stands from sitting and balances and takes 5 to 6 steps, but hates the uneasy feeling so he drops to his knees and crawls. We just laugh at him. Backyard Grandma says that he will walk by Kindergarten. I am taking the binki away on Tuesday from Coop and starting potty training with the Bubs as well. Yes, suicide I know, but when life stops for toddlers, stop it for all I say. I think Jace will do well, but I cannot be certain. Cooper’s health has improved as well. We think that he was allergic to the Zyrtec. Ironic, eh? The child is allergic to allergy medicine. He still eats his daily Activa yogurt, and he is certainly chunking up again. He had lost about 4 pounds and he has gained that all back and more I suspect.
7. And finally, I am taking a class every Tuesday night from 4:00 to 8:30. I need to keep up my licensure and I heard this class is really good so… I liked it last week, and I made a few friends. Hopefully it will not have much homework because I am not certain I can keep up with Aiden’s and my own. Mitch may begin to go crazy every Tuesday night, but he says he knows I have to do it. I then think of women who do no school before they have children and think- there is no way- no absolute way I could do it full time with a family!
Well that’s us in an update form. I hope to keep these coming a little more regularly. I have goals so I hope I can keep ‘em. Love to you all!
Kim
