Shane's First Soccer Game

It seems like one first after another lately. Today was Shane's first soccer game. Good start to the season as they won and Shane even scored a goal. He is much stronger at defense since he is fast and being so new to soccer he does not have the ball handling skills for much scoring. He has already improved after the one practice and game, so I am hopeful for the season. He had a lot of fun, but we have to work a bit on sportsmanship. Shane liked to yell out the soccer with great emphasis on, "On my goodness we scored AGAIN! Now it is like 8 to 1." We had to discuss that we do not need to announce the score out loud every time and he would not like it if the roles were reversed. He had a little taste of his own medicine when the other team went on a scoring streak and closed the gap a bit.

Anders' Birthday Party

Anders LOVES animals, so of course we had to get a petting zoo for his birthday. It was wonderful. They brought a llama, pony for rides, and ducks, bunnies, a mini goat, and chickens. Anders was a natural on the pony. We had a great time with our friends and neighbors.
Tina doing Myann's hair for the last time. I almost started crying at the thought that Myann's hair will never look this cute again.

His smile is infectious - looking at him just fills my heart



Looking like a natural

Myann hugging the llama

Anders and McKenna strolling - kind of looks like a date

Best buddies

Beauties! Not sure how my baby turned into a little lady.







Anders can charm the pants off anyone and his party was no exception. When it came time to blow out the candles he was hamming it up by blowing out the candle lighter and then candle before I could get both lit so we could sing. This went on for a good two minutes and he was cracking himself up.


Anders saying, "All done. Wash hands."

Dance Class fun

Myann is really enjoying dance, but the best part, and I say that sarcastically, is dealing with the boys while Myann is dancing.





Shhh, don't tell Daddy Anders had a ponytail.

Silverwood

Of course we arrive early/on time to something for the first time ever and we had the time wrong and had to wait 30 minutes. Oh well, we let the kids play in line and we enjoyed the very empty park. The park was actually empty most of the day, so we fit in a lot of rides in half of a day. The adults even did a few rides, thank you Sandra. Shane was pretty fun too because he did every ride he physically could and made a mental list of all the rides he would do when he was tall enough. We took advantage of his desire for rides by telling him to eat more veggies and maybe he would be big enough in 2 years.





At the end of the day, we entertained park goers but letting our children consume mass quantities of bright colored ice cream. I was feeling pretty proud let me tell you.

Shane's First Homework

Yep, Day 1 and Shane received a homework assignment. Fortunately, we had the long weekend to complete it. Tonight we finished it. The assignment was to complete the cut out with a representation of the student. I can not tell you the amount of stress this caused me. How much should I help, should I help at all, what if I don't help and the other parents help and Shane gets upset because his is the worse, what if I help and when he gets to school all the other kids did it alone and Shane's is obvious he had help? Brian thinks I am a nutcase and is very concerned that school is going to be the demise of me, since Day 1 of kindergarten has me back to biting my nails. So in the end, as you can see I helped a little. I took all of Shane's ideas and helped him to completion. Okay, so I helped more than I should have, but they really were his ideas, but I helped with cutting and glue placement.

Shane wanted a viking hat, no clue why. We were trying to make hair and that piece was a scrap and Shane decided it looked like a viking hat and he wanted to be wearing a viking hat. We went with it. Then we did the picture of him, come on, he is too cute. The t-shirt was an old t-shirt of his that I cut out and fit into place. Because he wears superhero t-shirts 99% of the time. Next he wanted green pants, because he loves green. He wanted his puppies in the picture and all his video games, but he settled for the wii remote to represent. He wanted a trophy in one hand because he is on a mission to acquire the most trophies in the world. He wanted to be kicking a soccer ball because he just started playing soccer and really likes it. And Dash because Shane is fast like Dash, this was actually Brian's contribution. Shane also wanted pictures of Anders and Myann on his person, but we ran out of space.

The pillow pet is in the picture just because it was new and he wanted it in the picture. The kids love their pillow pets.


Myann wanted to do "homework" too so she worked on her letters. She is really good at it when she sits down and concentrates.

Labor Day weekend

The French's graciously had us back out to their lake house. It was a beautiful day and we enjoyed our last lake hoorah.

Blaine is such a great sport and let the kids take turns driving the boat and I mean literally driving, I was a bit nervous a few times.






Anders was beyond exhaustion and past out.

Shane's tumble

Daddy has been hiking A LOT, like every day. Shane accompanies him on some of these hikes. In fact, Shane used to whine half way through and now he can make it on the full hike, even the long version. The last hill has been affectionately referred to as the "butt burner" because it does just that as it is quite steep. Shane got cocky and decided to run down. He took off and hit a stick towards the bottom and went face first superman style. When they got back Shane wanted some mommy comforting and I took pictures of his banged up self. He was a mess.