Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Our State Fair Is A Great State Fair
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
I like Ketchup...
Kyle and his cousin Sage - they have so much fun together.
Audrey and my cousin Laura's daughter Dee Dee - they love playing together!
Swim lessons were a success for all this year...they learned so much.
Audrey can do the front and back crawl, the back float, the dead mans float, the side stroke, and loves to swim underwater and of course do gymnastics under water too.
Kyle learned how to do the front crawl, the back float, the dead mans float and was the least nervous going off the diving board out of all 3.
Kaden cried the whole time the first day (it was his first year) but ended up being the most improved. By the end he was doing everything with the teachers that he was supposed to do.
Here's Ky doing the front crawl at the Hotel we stayed at the night before the Reunion.
Here's Ky jumping off the diving board at my friend's parent's pool.
Here he is doing a cool move off the slide.
Kaden doing a back float with his teacher - notice the rubber duck...that's something they gave him the 2nd day since he was a cryer the 1st day!
Here he is on the steps at the hotel pool!
More of him on the steps...maybe next year he'll want to do more on his own.
Again he's on the steps now at my friend's parent's pool.
Audrey doing her back float at the hotel pool.
And the side stroke.
Hallelujah she finally really jumped off a diving board!!! Our present from my mom for Christmas was a zoo pass...so we had to invite her to come one of the 4 times we went (so far.)
On the lion.
The drinking fountain lion is always a must.
Love the cutouts!
Summer wouldn't be summer without snowcones!
Here are the kids in front of the Library with their lists of the books they read or had read to them...Audrey read 100 books again this summer and Kyle read more than 20 books all by himself!
They love playing the computers there.
Oh and Audrey won a free book from Barnes and Noble for reading 10 books and writing about them.
My goofy kids after church...
Thursday, August 27, 2009
First few days of school
The strawberry ones were to die for...
...and the blueberry ones - simply scrumptious!
Excited to go to school!
How fast they grow up!
Yet they are still silly billy kiddies!
Audrey ready to go get in line for the 3rd graders outside the school!
Kaden getting some joy school taught by mom.
Cutting up a storm.
When we went to pick up Ky from Kindergarten, Kade couldn't resist making some art with a stick and some water.
He was to shy to say he wanted a picture with his teacher...so when I asked do you want one with Mrs. Zaladonos he just pointed to her and that was taken as a "yes."
Audrey on her second day of school - I wish I could steal some of her hair!
Ky wanted to bring his blankie on the 2nd day (it's pretty special to him) but I told him that he's not supposed to bring things from home unless it's show and tell. So he opted for a picture with it instead!
I was able to get a picture on the 2nd day...with his Best Buddy Enoch!
Ky has Enoch and 3 girls he knows from church in his class! (He says they are ALL his girlfriends.)
Audrey outside her class.
And in her class!
On the 3rd day of school I let Kaden play outside almost the whole time Kyle was gone. I talked to Kev's cute Grandma Hansen for an hour and cleaned/organized the garage for another hour.
One of his favorite games that day was pushing his babies (balls) in the stroller! :)
When I went to pick up Kyle on the 3rd day I finally remembered to bring the chalk so he could draw a heart by his teacher's name. The 1st day he saw some other teacher's names with hearts by them and didn't want his teacher to go without because "he loves her." Notice how the heart took over the "Z" so I had to write a new one. ;)
And on the 4th day they finally allowed Kindergartners to ride the bus...here we have Kyle with a friend in his class and his sister, Audrey.
