Our fish

Jack is loving swim team at our gym! I'm loving having weekends free after a year of weekend games (baseball and soccer). The kids wear fins to help them glide and are in the water 100%. His summer team took a lot of turns in the water so he could rest in between. Now he's swimming laps for a solid hour, pretty much, with only a few breaks. The coaches are really helping the kids with technique and strokes. It's all coming together. Both kids are hungry and tired after practice though. It's from 5:30-6:30 pm and that's dinner time 'round here!

Sneak peak

Jack and Theo had pictures taken by my friend, Nikki, who has taken all of the boys' pictures since Theo turned 1!! Well, now he's 4 and here is a sneak peak from our shoot out in Abita Springs. More fabulous pictures to come......

2011-12 school pictures

The boys sure did take fine pictures this year! They have new photo ID badges with their pictures too. LOVE it :) I always just tell them to have "dimples" instead of saying "cheese".

Weekend writing

Dave and Jack went to the LSU game and Theo and I hung back at home. It's always amazing to me how quiet just one child is in comparison to the bustle of two! Theo found this little treasure out in the garage and has had a renewed interest in it. Only this time he wanted to write words! I can tell he's just soaking everything up now. He wrote out cat and run all by himself and can sound out each part of the words. I helped him write the "g" in dog ;) He gets homework a couple of times a week and enjoys it so far. Whew!!

Molly's party

Theo's little buddy from school, Molly, had her 4th birthday party today. All the kids decorated cupcakes with different icing and candy. Theo LOVED it and the whole thing made me think of Mimi and her cupcakes :) The party ended with a pinata pull (instead of batting). Thanks, Molly!!

Starting the weekend

We've been busy little bees over here (but it's great!). We went over to my friend Lana's house after school yesterday so the boys and her son, Liam could play. The boys rode all around the yard and played in the gorgeous weather! We couldn't stay long though since the boys started Art Time back up. Jack moved up a level since he's in 1st grade now and Theo is finally old enough (just made the cut off). Jack didn't finish his project but here's Theo's crab. I was blown away.

Dave and I went to the library and checked out a bunch of books for the kids. Froggy books for Theo and chapter books for Jack. Dave got an elementary football book that explains the game in a story format. Perfect timing since Dave and Jack are at the opening game for LSU tonight!

Both boys stayed on green all week for behavior so I treated them to powdered donuts this morning. Mmmm. :)

The great outdoors

Tropical Storm Lee left us soggy but he also brought Fall weather with him! The lows are in the 50's here and it warms up to about 80 in the day. Heaven!!! We've been venturing out after homework and enjoying the weather. Both boys shoot some hoops, ride bikes and scooters....... and play with a twirly thing (that the Gypsie's were selling at the base of the Eiffel Tower en mass) that Dave picked up at a hobby store that was going out of business. I guess I should have said "played" because I shot the twirly thing very far and high and it cleared the house.... only to land on the roof in the back (it' not just sloped in the back). *sigh* Sorry boys :(