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Couple Pages of Sports Pictures
While visiting with Deanna and Doug this past couple of days I’ve had a chance to get a couple of the sports pages for Alex and Andrew together.
Andrew just finished up with his soccer season and those pictures are here.
Alex is finishing up with his fall lacrosse and fall soccer.
Enjoy.
Fall Scout Campout
Just posted some pictures from the Fall Campout that Alex and I did with his Scout Troop. You can find them here.
Caroline’s 1st Days at School
Jen started teaching a couple of days each week tutoring small groups of kids to help prepare them for the statewide assessment tests that happen in a couple of months. To do this we’ve put Caroline in school a couple days a week. She’s actually in the same preschool that both Alex and Andrew attended.
We were a little nervous about how she would be leaving Jen for the first time since the boys had a hard time. I can’t even count the times that Alex was in tears after being dropped off. Well, not Caroline. She had her Elmo backpack, lunch box, sleeping mat, and she was ready to go. The very first day she just walked right up there and that was it.
I dropped her off the other day and as we pulled into the parking lot of school she got all excited and started yelling, “dool, dool”.
Here’s her picture from the first day
Yesterday she also came home with her very first piece of artwork. I guess they were talking about all the snow we’ve had the last couple of days. She was very proud of the white paint she did because she would point to it and say “paint”.
Mother Goose
I was putting Caroline to bed this evening and was sitting in our big chair reading some stories with her when I picked up Jen’s old copy of “The Real Mother Goose.” It’s old and fragile, pages are starting to fall out of it since the binding glue is drying out, but every now and then I pick it up to read a couple with her.
Tonight I opened up to a page and saw a picture of an old guy jumping in the bush and thought what’s this all about.
THE MAN IN OUR TOWNThere was a man in our town,
And he was wondrous wise,
He jumped into a bramble bush,
And scratched out both his eyes;
But when he saw his eyes were out,
With all his might and main,
He jumped into another bush,
And scratched ’em in again.
Really, scratched his eyes out!?
There you go Caroline, stay out of the bushes or look what can happen, scratch your eyes right out, and don’t listen to any of that nonsense about scratching ’em back in ’cause that’s not going to happen. Sleep tight, don’t have any nightmares tonight.
Sandy Feet
Greetings from Watercolor
We arrived safely in Florida and are having a good time. Today we biked from the house down the beach and spent a couple of hours at the beach. Alex and Andrew loved swimming in the gulf since the waves were pretty high after the thunder storms yesterday. Caroline also had a fun but made a really sour face after getting her first mouthful of salt water.
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Ready for Sheet Rock
We went up to the house this weekend for a quick look around and they have finished up with the wiring, the extra gas line for the dryer, and the cable tv and internet wires. The insulation has been put up into a number of the walls and strategically placed throughout the house are stacks of sheet rock ready to go up on the wall. The construction manager told us they should start putting up the sheet rock this week and even through I didn’t see any brick at the house they should be starting with that as well.
 Sheet Rock in Living Room |
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Alex Scores!
Today Alex had two lacrosse games and he scored during both games!
The first game was one of his regularly scheduled ones where he plays on his white squad and the second game was a bonus where he was playing with the black squad. They have a pretty large team where half the kids play on the white team and the other half play on the black team. The black team needed a couple of extra players today and the coach invited him to come play in that game as well. (He was really tired after playing two games in a row.)
He was way excited about his first goal. After he shot it and it bounced in he turned around and jumped in the air and was pumping his fist, Coach even came out and gave him a high five.
I managed to get video of his first goal though I wasn’t quite prepared so it’s kind of jerky and then after he scored I was so excited I hit the off button and missed his celebration. If I can figure out how to transfer it to the computer I’ll see if I can post it to the blog.
Snowball Fight.
On the first day of spring this year we woke up to a couple of inches of snow. Alex took out the ruler and measured it in the backyard and I think it found that it was about five inches deep. It was really good packing snow so we all went outside and had a big snowball fight in the backyard. Well, it didn’t start off as a snowball fight but it quickly turned into one. I took a couple of pictures since it’s not often that we get snow in Texas and it’s even more rare that we get that much snow. Plus it was Caroline’s first time to play in the snow, I couldn’t pass up taking pictures of that.