Tyler's Sophomore Year Football Season

Another football season has come and gone.  I thought I would scan these newspaper articles and save them here rather than letting them get yellow over time in a drawer or album.  

You can click on the articles to enlarge them and make them easier to read.  Look for the arrows where Tyler's name is mentioned.

We are so proud of you, Tyler.

T's Snickerdoodle Chex Mix

We recently had Cinnamon Chex in the house and T noticed a recipe for Snickerdoodle Chex Mix on the box.  He asked if I could make it, and I told him I would buy the ingredients if he would make it with me.  He agreed.

Everyone agreed that it was simply delicious!

Week In Review

R participated in a basketball camp this week.  The camp was supposed to be held Monday through Friday from 8:30-12:00, but on Thursday there was a leak in the roof of the gym and basketball was cancelled.  They moved basketball to outdoor courts for today and it rained!  So, she went three days, but that was enough for her anyway!  She also went to a friend's house on Wednesday afternoon and to another friend's house on Thursday.

C had a friend over on Wednesday and a different friend over today.

Summer piano lessons began for C yesterday.  In the summer, the lessons have more theory.  His piano teacher said that C is going to be starting a new book soon and that will be his last piano book.  After that, C will work on different pieces rather than instruction from a book.

C has also enjoyed playing with Snap Circuits Jr.

C read this book in one day.

He loved it!  Auntie Karen gave him the first book in the series; this is the second book.  We are waiting for the third book to come in at the library.

C and R wrote letters to their teachers.

They had a tennis lesson in the rain this morning.

T had his second week of tennis camp and continued working out with the football team and with the personal trainer.  I will make sure I take pictures of him next week!

We also celebrated Grandma Susan's birthday.  I made a lemon poppyseed cake and we got ice cream from Somerset Creamery.

K was so cute with Great Grandpa - very sweet.

The weekend is here!!!

Camps and a Week in Review

C attended a week long day camp at the Audubon Society.  The theme was Wilderness Skills.

The stairway at the camp is painted to look like the layers of the rainforest.

This is the description from the brochure:  Campers discover how local Native Americans and early colonists lived off the land through hands-on explorations, games, and crafts. Skills may include plant and animal identifications, shelter building, making rope, tools and toys.

They spent most of their time outside, but this is the room where the crafts and other indoor activities took place.

C had a great time hiking, exploring a pond and a bog, learning compass orienteering, learning about and getting to see a real owl,  making crafts, making a candle out of crayon wax, making a leaf print tee shirt, building a shelter in the woods and more.

C really enjoyed the camp.  He had a great time on the hikes and loved building the shelter.  C told me that he wants a compass for his birthday!  I am happy that he enjoyed it so much.  I was a little nervous because this camp was for children between the ages of eight and eleven, and C will not be eight for a few weeks yet (and eleven is so much older than almost eight!), but he fit in just fine.  


T was busy this week too.  He had tennis camp four days, worked out with a trainer at the gym, and worked out with the football team at the high school.  He also went to the movies with friends and is at Dave and Buster's with friends (thanks to Dad who is nice enough to hang out at the mall on a Friday night so the boys can go to the arcade) right now as I type.


R insisted on being busy.  Her friend Karlie came over on Monday, another friend, Allie, came over on Wednesday, and she went to her friend Courtney's house to swim on Thursday.  She also had a tennis lesson this morning and spent some time during the week with Grandma.  


K was a bit under the weather most of the week.  She is much better now.  I took her in to see the pediatrician this afternoon because even though her fever has been gone for two days, she was still very fussy and wasn't eating much.  The doctor we saw thinks she may have had Roseola.  We never noticed a rash, but the doctor said that sometimes the rash comes and goes quickly and is not noticed.  Of course, once we got home from the pediatrician's office, K seemed to be back to herself and ate pasta, half of a plum, and half of a kiwi.  Why does that always happen to me?  I think my kids hear the doctor say they are fine and then they decide it's okay to be fine (even at ten months of age).  


I am happy the weekend is here.  I spent so much time driving this week, that it will be nice to be home.  I am VERY thankful that I had help from my mother-in-law this week!  I would have lived in the car if not for her help!  

School's Out for Summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hooray!!!  Let the fun begin!  I am so excited to have the kiddos home for the summer.

The last three days have been half days and each day at the elementary school had a theme.

Monday was Character Day.  R wore part of her jazz costume to be Little Red Riding Hood.

My cell phone takes terrible pictures.

Tuesday was Tropical Day.

Wednesday (today), the last day of school, was Principal Pride Day.  Our principal is retiring and her favorite color is purple, so the students wore purple in honor of her last day as their principal.

R's last day of Kindergarten

C had no interest in dressing up for any of these days.  Here he is on his last day of second grade:

Today was also T's last day of school.  Freshman year is over.  He was thrilled to have his picture taken at 6:30 this morning.

While the kids were in school, I made Cool Whip Cones (frozen pudding and cool whip in a cone).  T and C loved them, but R did not (no surprise there - I should have just made her an ice cream cone).

I also made a sign to welcome the kids to summer vacation.

When they got off the bus, I sprayed them with silly string!!!!!!!!!!

Finally, I filled fifty water balloons for them to play with.

They liked popping them over their own heads!

I hope we have a wonderful summer!  

Thirty-three Weeks

K's eyes are so pretty.  They are deep blue like R's and she has long eyelashes.

Meal time is so messy.  She insists on doing it herself and that means there is always food everywhere. It is a two spoon job, one spoon for her and one for me and we trade spoons over and over.

Her little wave is so cute and I still haven't been able to get a picture or video of it.  She says, "Hi, Dada," and that is always directed right at Dad so even if she is not even eight months old, I am convinced that she is talking.

K is officially wearing 12-18 months now.  She wears this size for the length; her waist is tiny and the clothes are baggy.

I love to look at pictures of the other three kids around the same age, so here they are:

T - December 1997

C - March 2005

R - October 2006

K - today, April 30, 2012

Look at that wispy hair and that sweet smile.  She melts my heart.

I love this age.