Micah's Easter Party

On Friday, April 3rd, Micah's class at PreK had it's Easter party. They did an Easter egg hung and had lunch. Since I was on spring break, I got to go and Micah was so excited to have his mom there. It was cute because we made cupcakes (ok, Josette made them before I got the chance) but Micah kept asking the kids "Do you like my cupcakes?.....Thanks!" and then would ask the next one. It was really fun to see him interact in his school environment. He's doing really well there and is quite popular. I got him enrolled in Kindergarten last week also. Since his birthday is August 21 and the cutoff here in Georgia is September 1, he will probably be the youngest (or one of the youngest) in his class. The teacher who did his enrollment testing said that he was the youngest she'd had all morning but that he did really well. He didn't know the name of his ankle or wrist or what an oval was, but come on, those are pretty difficult. She said she was quite impressed with how well he could rhyhm, better than most of the older kids. He wasn't too excited about kindergarten, until he saw 7 other kids from his pre-k class there, then he was begging to go. Anyways,here's some pics from his egg hunt.



Finding eggs


Micah's Class

Micah and his friend Brandon


Micah and his friend Mia


Micah got tired of me taking pictures so would close his eyes like this everytime I'd try for another picture! haha

Playing in the water

Last week, before the cold temperatures and snow we had yesterday, we had a day where it was in the 70s. It had rained a TON the day before and the water part of the sandbox was full. Jacob and Micah decided to go out and play in it and Rex couldn't not join in on the fun. He was splashing water with his paws and the boys were soaked, but they all had so much fun.

Seth's Birthday

Hard to believe my oldest baby is now 11! Where does the time go? It's hard to imagine him in middle school next year! AHHHH!

More snow pictures

After Jacob's nap, he wanted to go back outside. The older kids were all at friends houses so I only let them venture to the deck but they had fun anyways. Even Rex got in on the action. This was his first snow. :)

Jacob would point to the sky and say "SNOOOOOOW"



Rex was going crazy!

CHEESE!

Georgia Snow '09

Nothing like getting snow on March 1! This was Jacob's first time in the snow so needless to say, he didn't want to come in. The other kids couldn't wait to get in it. They are forcasting 1-3" for our town. We have about 1/2" right now and it's still snowing.
Some of the snowflakes were as big as golfballs!


Mikayla was excited to make a snowball



Trying to eat snowflakes. Seth was at a neighbors so I didnt' get him playing in it.

New Hair Cut

I don't think I showed this yet. :) It's not the greatest pic, but you sort of get the idea. It's about shoulder length and I have bangs, something I haven't had in YEARS.

Odyessey of the Mind 2009

Yesterday was Mikayla's Odyessey of the Mind and I have to admit that I'm glad it's over. They put so much time into their practices, and honestly, it was a FLOP! Their costumes were horrid, their props ridiculous and the coach's daughter had the main role! I never thought I'd be one of 'those' parents to complain about special treatment, but that's totally what it was. While this girl was good, Mikayla is just as dramatic, if not more so, and could have totally pulled off the role. Instead, she was a pegasus, and her line was "neigh". That's it! Parents aren't allowed to help at all in the costume design and Mikayla made a great paper mache nose for her costume, then decided last minute to use a cup. It was so hard for me to let her do that, but I wasn't allowed to have a say in it.

The entire team from Austell (our schools). There were 1-5th graders all involved.

Mikayla and her teammate, Mya

The team and their coach, Ms Mitchell

Mikayla and Veronia...the coach's daughter

A day of Rugby

Last weekend our Rugby team had games on both Saturday and Sunday so I decided to take the kids to Sunday's games. Totally crazy! It was just a little too cold so they really weren't enjoying it. Tim had Seth down on the field and let him play waterboy for the game. He said that he did better than the rookies so it may be something Seth does for all the homegames. I think he'd really enjoy it...he sure did that day. Tim doesn't usually run water out (that's what rookies are for) but since he was training Seth, he did for this game. Right behind the bleachers is the sand volleyball pit so we stopped at the store and got a bunch of sand toys so the kids could play.









Micah and Katelyn were freezing


And Jacob just wanted toplay with stick guns.



Seth looks so small!!

Too cute!

The girls "tent"

Katelyn and Mikayla asked me one night if they could go camping in their bedroom. I told them it would be fine, then tucked them in bed, like normal, not assuming they'd do anything other than sleep on the bottom bunk, covered with blankets all around to make a 'tent'. When I went back in a few hours later, here is how i found them. They had created a 'tent' on the floor and created seperate rooms for it. It was actually pretty creative how they had it all put together. They had a great time in their 'tent' and actualy slept in it a couple nights.