Monday, August 17, 2009

Goodbye summer, hello school!!

Last day at the Beach:
Becky and I decided that we ought to have one last trip to the beach before school starts so we took our last wednesday before school and took the kids to Treasure Island. The kids had a ton of fun, because there were lots of tide pools and rocks to climb and explore. So goodbye summer, we already miss it!

Back to School and hello first grade!
Jake is a first grader now! yeah! A whole day at school! It has been quite an adjustment to have to get all of the kids up and ready so early, but it has been fun. The first couple of days were a little tough for Jake, but he loves it now (except for the whole doing a lot more work part). He even got to buy his first hot lunch today at school. He has been begging me every day, so we made a plan that on pizza day he would get to do it, and so today he did! I dont think he was too crazy about the food, just excited that he got to do something that some other kids in class do.



First day of school, jake decided to "test" his scissors out and see if they could cut his shirt... and it worked, who knew?

KiwiFrost:
After the first day of school, a few of us moms, decided to try out this new ice cream place as a treat for the kids. It was a lot of fun. I think it was more fun, because we got to all sit and talk about our first days! For the moms and the kids there was a lot to talk about, I hope it becomes a fun tradition because I sure enjoyed it. This poor little place though, we definitely took it over! By the way, if anyone wants to try out some ice cream check out KiwiFrost, it is right across the street from Spaghetti factory, and it is sort of a self-serve frozen yogurt place, it is really cool, you pay by the ounce and add as many or as little mixins as you want!

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Cody's cannonball and his mischievious brother

Sorry it has been so long everybody! I am done with school for the summer, and dont start again until the 24th! Yeah, some free down time! So hopefully I will catch up on blogging in the meantime!

Thankfully besides the school, I have been trying to keep summer fun for the kids. So, thankfully summer has been full of fun and memorable times! One of my all time favorite memories of this summer though will be Cody learning to talk and the new words he is picking up. So I had to include this video of him trying to do his own cannonball! complete with the word! It is so funny to hear him mimic us, but even funnier because he mostly likes to mimic things his older bro and sis say! So "cannonball" is by far my favorite word that he is picked up! Of all the words, huh? Hopefully you can hear it on the video!

Last but not least, tonight, Jake and Cody were playing in the front room while we were in the family room, and after awhile we asked Jake what he was doing, and he answered the he was putting lotion on Cody, because Cody came up to him and asked him to! So, I video'd what the result was...