baseball fans....

The kids and I have been to quite a few Round Rock Express games this season...so much so that I'm considering season tickets for next year. The entire family went to one recent game -- the kids all got Nolan Ryan jerseys.



All the kids enjoy the games, but Caleb is the avid fan. He is really enjoying watching the games and is learning all about baseball. His favorite player right now is Brooks Conrad. We went to our last game of the regular season at the end of August and I told Caleb that "this is it -- we won't see them again until next April" and he said "NEXT APRIL! -- BUT I'M GOING TO MISS THEM!" Luckily, now that RR is in the playoffs, we'll see them for a little while longer.

At first I thought it was just the fun of going to Dell Diamond and playing on the rock wall and the moon walks but Caleb's really taken an interest in baseball.

Now, with Sydni, it is all about the food (see August 15 blog). She's not interested in going to any more games --- she actually asked "do I have to go to the baseball game?"

Jacob is a little into the game -- his real interest though is the food, especially the sno cones (or shaved ice as Jacob refers to them).

They all enjoyed the gift shop! Below is just a small sampling of what they got this year.



The Express were in the American Division playoffs (and are now the American League PCL Division Champs) this past weekend. I took Caleb and Jacob to the game on Friday night. We like to sit behind home plate and getting three tickets together was hard so we had to settle for two in one row and one six rows in front of us. Since I wasn't going to let either boy sit by themselves, I told them one would have to sit on my lap the entire game. It was a little hard when the three of us were trying to eat all squished into two seats. It was sprinkling when we got there but luckily we were under the ledge so our seats weren't too bad. We were getting rained on a bit at the beginning so the boys wanted to go to the store and get an umbrella. I had my hands full carrying the food and drinks and the boys were following me to the store. I turned around to tell them that we were going to sit at the picnic tables and finish eating before going into the store when all of a sudden Caleb wasn't behind me. I asked Jacob where he was and he said that he was just behind him. Jacob started calling Caleb's name and I was running around like crazy looking for him. I ended up chunking the food and drinks once I realized he was not in our immediate vacinity. It was all so surreal -- we had not walked more than 20 ft. when all this took place -- but since it was raining, so many people were standing around in the walkways and I guess that's how we got separated.

Of course I started to panic when I couldn't immediately find him. The Dell Diamond folks were amazing. They were very helpful -- now the first police officer I found wasn't worth a dime. He actually looked like he was drunk and wouldn't lift a finger to help me. I just walked away from him irritated and then another officer came up to me. He was helpful and they had other employees out searching for Caleb. They all looked at me kind of weird when I said that he was Jacob's brother, but taller and that he looked like a Mexican (since Jacob doesn't look at all Mexican). The cop was very sympathetic and I told him we had to hurry and find him because I knew he was walking around crying looking for me. Not more than five minutes passed when the cop told me to stop and I heard "Dede" and then saw Caleb running through people to try and get to me. I couldn't stop hugging him and kissing him. We must have looked a sight -- me, Caleb and Jacob all on the ground hugging and crying. Jacob was really scared and he was crying the hardest. I told them "let's go home" and they both said NO! Even through all that madness they wanted to stay for the game. Caleb is shy and he wouldn't tell me what happened or what the guy who found him said to get him to come with him to me. Once we were all calm enough to talk, we found that we were each going the opposite way looking for each other. Well now Caleb has gotten lost with me, Granny Gran and Diane. That boy is a little houdini. Oi Vey!

We didn't get the umbrellas but they bought RR baseball caps to keep the rain off their heads. The rain shifted and we ended up pretty much covered the rest of the night. The game was called for a rain delay at the end of the ninth inning and they had to go into extra innings. Since it was Friday night, they had a fireworks show that they of course wanted to stay and watch. We were lucky that they went ahead and had the show during the rain delay. Jacob said "these are awesome fireworks!"



Caleb and I went back on Saturday for another game and things went well. It was so hot that we had to change seats so as not to burn up. We stayed in our original seats long enough for Caleb to get one of the balls the announcer throws out during the seventh inning stretch. I took my camera so Caleb was loving taking all the pictures.



There were at least three broken bats -- here is my favorite player, Mike Rodriguez, breaking his bat.

first grade....

Today was the first day of First Grade for the kids. They all had new teachers and new classmates this year (although each had at least one that they knew from last year). Even though they enjoyed their summer I think they were ready to get back to a routine....everyone except Sydni that is. She decided last night that she didn't like school anymore -- it's too long. Caleb was just excited that the class bullies from last year weren't in his class this year. In his words "whew!". Jacob didn't really have much to say -- although he didn't want to go anywhere near their school during summer.


(I know it looks like the boys don't have other clothes to wear other than these shirts but they do!)

sydni's day again....

Sunday was Sydni's day with me. We started the afternoon by going shopping (for me). We went into a clothing store and the first thing she said was "I don't know if this is the store that had the necklace that I wanted"...and sure enough it was. She saw this LARGE heart locket about two months ago and wanted it -- but it was $24 and I knew she would lose it or lose interest in it as soon as I bought it so I told her I would order one online where some of the money went to charity. Well, I completely forgot about that but she kept reminding me. So for one of her birthday presents, I ordered a small locket for her. When she opened it she liked it but she said "this isn't the one I wanted". UGGGGH! So, thank goodness they had it on Sunday and it was on clearance for $5. WooHoo. I think she's stopped wearing it already but at least she has it.

We then went to the Round Rock Express game. She was not into the game at all. She was more into the food -- she had chicken tenders with fries, a Sprite, a Cherry snowcone (that I filled to the brim and it dripped all over the place); some cotton candy; a hot dog; another Sprite and some water. We got up and down from our seats more times than I can remember.

She also got a pink bat from the store and some "lipstick" aka chapstick. She tried to practice in the stands and scared those around us. She wanted to climb the wall but by the time the sun went down and we made our way to the play area, they were closing up. She was not happy at all. That's a major point to remember for the next trip.

Sunday's are kids days at Dell Diamond so she got to see a clown and get a kitty kat balloon -- that popped while we were sitting and scared everyone around us. They also gave away RR Express/Mrs. Bairds lunch boxes (only to kids 12 and under--I don't think she's giving that thing up to me no matter how nice I ask).

For our next day out together she wants to go to Austin to take a ballet class.

happy 6th birthday to us....

Sydni, Caleb and Jacob turned six years old on Wednesday, August 9. Diane and Keith took us and the kids to Chili's on Monday to celebrate their birthday (Diane had to work on Wednesday). The kids loved it and enjoyed their birthday ice cream. They didn't get sung to so that was a bummer but otherwise a great meal.



Granny Gran, PoPo and I took the kids to eat at Sirloin Stockade on Wednesday -- one of their favorite places. Our waitress was so sweet and she sang Happy Birthday to them. They kept looking for her and saying "I don't think she's coming back..." We had cupcakes for them and they blew out their candles at their exact birth time.

Jacob -- 10:50 am
Sydni -- 10:49 am
Caleb -- 10:51 am

We were supposed to have a family birthday party on Saturday but all three kids came down with a viral infection so we were forced to cancel their party. Diane was planning on having a birthday party with their school friends in early September so we are going to combine the two. They weren't deprived though since they got to open up tons of gifts on Saturday from all of us.

And, Aunt Lola made them a delicious cake -- I kept saying "I'm glad it wasn't any good" trying to convince myself that I shouldn't have a piece but Caleb kept saying "It was -- It was good!".

Some of their gifts (in addition to all their school clothes and school supplies from Granny Gran and PoPo):

Sydni:

• Fairytopia/Mermaidia doll
• Tinkerbell doll (known to Sydni as Twinkerbell)
• Easy Bake Oven (over Diane's objections)
• Heart locket (of course, it wasn't the exact one that Sydni wanted)
• Princess CD
• Paintable tea set
• Cinderella clock
• Tinkerbell dress up outfit
• sleeping bag
• Princess Activity door hanger and activity pad
• Barbie Diaries DVD
• Faiytopia play things
• Leapster cartridges
• Video chair
• Scooter

Jacob

• Flying Superman
• Bionicles
• Cars Legos
• Magnetic Legos
• Spy Camera
• Yugi-O figure
• sleeping bag
• HUGE water shooter
• Flat Ball
• Flat Ball (again)
• Spy Night goggles
• Nerf basketball light-up
• Scooter
• Power Rangers
• Saduko game (for TV w/Checkers)

Caleb

• Lightning McQueen Car
• Power Rangers Megazord
• Red Power Rangers (talking one)
• sleeping bag
• Scooter
• Bionicles
• Bionicles books (to add to his collection)
• Car Legos
• Power Rangers gloves
• Nerf dart shooting game
• Remote control truck with jet ski
• Remote control Caterpillar (small version)
• Remote control Caterpillar (large version -- exact same as above only larger scale)
• Remote control convertible
• Binoculars

trying to get to sea world.....

Caleb called me today to let me know that he had a lot of money so he could go to Sea World. I asked him how much he had so he and Sydni proceeded to count out their money; six pennies, six nickels, five quarters and six dimes. I told him that comes to $2.21 -- he thought that was so much money and did he have enough? I said, well it takes around $50 to get into Sea World so you're still short....and that is only if you are going to get in by yourself. So I told him how many quarters it would take and how many nickels it would take so he and Jacob and Sydni are off now trying to scrounge up enough money to go to Sea World. I really hope he gets to swim/train with Shamu one day because he is enthralled with that beautiful creature.

One of these days we are going to take the kids to spend the night there -- either with the penguins or the sharks.

caleb's day

Caleb and I had another one of our days together. Of course, he wanted to go to another Round Rock Express game which was fine with me -- I really enjoy those games. Luke Scott got called up to play for the Astros so we were sad to see him not there but excited for him. That's one of the players that Caleb remembers because he always plays great. Morgan Ensberg was sent down to RR from the Astros so we were able to see him play and he was really good. It was a tough game and the Express lost it but at least Caleb got his treats that he has been patiently waiting for: camera, bat and ball. That boy loves disposable cameras -- he can't wait to get that film developed!

honky tonk....

The kids are quite the singers -- they all know the Brooks & Dunn song "You Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl" and love to sing it. A couple of years back, we watched the Country Music Awards on TV and I was goofing around singing that song when Brooks & Dunn were on stage. The kids loved it so much that I had to go out and buy the CD. For a while there any time we got in the car they always would say "we want to hear Caleb's song" because Caleb is the one who was completely obsessed by it.

Then they forgot about that song for a while and started to really like the Beach Boys. #4 and #21 are their favorites.

They are into both of them equally right now. When they sing "Honky tonk", I will look in the rearview mirror and Caleb will have his eyes closed and just singing along; Sydni will sing and move her little head around as she does it; and Jacob belts it out.

On the B&D album, they will also ask to hear "Caroline" since that is another one of Caleb's favorites. I would sing "Caleb" instead of Caroline and Sydni asked me the other day how they got Caleb's name in the song. I felt so bad having to tell her that it wasn't really Caleb on the song but that I just sang it like that.

vacation time....

The last couple of weeks have been vacation time for the kids. They started out in San Antonio with Diane and Keith to have fun at Fiesta Texas. They all loved it -- but could have done without a couple of the fast rides. I think Jacob is the only one who truly enjoyed the water log ride and the "fast" roller coaster. Caleb and Sydni will pass on those next time.

Then it was off to Galveston to spend some time at the beach. Grandma Sherry met them there. Jacob had an accident before vacation that had him scraping his knee pretty bad and it affected his ability to be in the water (the salt water at least) so he didn't play at the beach. Caleb had a near miss with a jelly fish so he was a little traumatized; and Sydni didn't like all the shells she had to walk on so she preferred to stick to the pool.

It was off to Houston next to visit Uncle Greg and Cousin Chelsea -- and their dog Misty or Missy or something like that; they had fun swimming and playing there and got a kick out of Uncle Greg swimming with them.

As if that wasn't enough, they came home on Sunday and we left on Monday to South Padre Island. This time Granny Gran and I joined the kids and Diane for that trip. They were very anxious to get there and the fact that we kept trying to find shortcuts there didn't help. Once they saw palm trees they knew we were close but not close enough. They finally saw the water and the causeway and were over the top with excitement. We went to the beach the next day and had fun boogie boarding and playing around in the ocean -- at least the boys did; Sydni was still a little shy of the ocean because of the shells and stuff so she preferred the pool and making sand castles...she never actually got in to the ocean. Caleb loves going out in the ocean but after the near jellyfish attack he was a little leary and anytime he saw something move he thought it was a jellyfish. I had to lie a little to him and tell him the jellyfish had all stayed in Port Aransas and were far far away so that he would relax a little. Jacob's knee wasn't affected by this salt water so he had fun playing and going crazy -- he likes making sand castles too so he did that quite a bit. Diane and I kept trying to sneak in time on their boogie boards but they always ended up wanting them back. After spending half a day at the beach, they all decided they wanted to play in the pool so Granny Gran and Diane took them back to the hotel to play there. Since I had payed for the umbrellas and chairs, I was determined to get my money's worth so I stayed at the beach and read a good book for the afternoon. The next day we went to San Juan to meet PoPo and go to church at the Our Lady of San Juan Shrine. The kids loved it there and got a thrill out of lighting candles and praying. They all had to bring back candles for home so they could pray at home. PoPo then headed back with us to the hotel for more pool time and beach time (only Jacob and I ventured out to the beach for a few hours but it was fun). The next day we headed back home and took our sweet leisurely time making it back. I also have to say that we really liked the location of our hotel -- La Quinta -- it was right on the beach and the staff was very nice. The kids especially loved the vending machines....



Next year I told Diane we could save the trip and just drive the kids around for a couple of hours and put them up at a hotel in Georgetown or Round Rock and let them spend a few days at the hotel pool and it would be the same to them. I told them I'm heading to SPI by myself next year -- but Jacob said he would go with me. Granny Gran asked him if he would help me get there and he said "sure, just follow the palm trees".

jacob's turn....

Jacob's one-on-one turn finally came on Sunday (June 25). He really wanted to go to Chuck E. Cheese and the RR Express game; but since the other two had just gone to the game, we took all three kids to Chuck E. Cheese for the afternoon. We were there for about three hours and had a ball. Caleb, Sydni and I almost fell off the WaveRunner. Jacob made a friend there -- some 4-year-old kid who played all the games with him...he told me his name but for the life of me I could not understand what he was saying.

We took off for the game late so we didn't get to spend time in the play area before the game. But, we did have time to hit the gift shop (boy the kids love that place!). Jacob got a foam finger and one of those swirly things that has the balls going around and around. We sat up in the handicapped section (not sure how we got those tickets but they were good seats so no complaints) and there was one woman in particular who was enchanted with Jacob. She just got a kick out of him. He would wave the finger and then eat his popcorn or his sno-cone. He woo-hooed a bit but he wasn't too interested in the game. He REALLY wanted to go play so we went to the play area and he was there for a bit. I like that they have that stuff for the kids but really, do they have to keep it open during the games? That defeats the purpose of actually watching the game which I really wanted to do. When we were coming back from the play area he noticed the suites up on the top level. He wanted to go sit up there. It told him we didn't have tickets to go up there but he was insistent -- I had to take him into the gift shop to get his mind off the suites. I told him he could buy one thing for $1; he said "yeah, I'm only going to buy one thing". He went to a RR jersey and said "this is too big!" and thank goodness because it was $70 bucks. He found some baseball cards for $1 so he got those. When we got home, he opened the cards (he wouldn't open them at the game or in the car because he didn't want to lose them) and said that the baseball players were going to come to his home now because he bought the cards. How cute is he!

sydni's day

Saturday (June 24) was supposed to be Jacob's one-on-one day; but Sydni wanted to go to the game with us and started crying in the hallway. She cried "I can't wait another day, I just can't!" So Jacob graciously agreed to let her go with me and he went with Granny Gran, PoPo and Caleb fishing.

Sydni and I went to the RR Express game. She's not really into sports so I was curious why she wanted to go -- once we got in the gift shop I understood. She was so excited and she ended up getting a pink penant; lip gloss and three tatoos. We went to the play area so she could jump around before the game. She went up a bouncy slide and when she got to the top she looked at me and waved and then tumbled (literally) down the slide. Poor thing hurt her elbow and she was done with playing. Next up was getting a sno-cone -- oh she had been thinking about that sno-cone since the last time she was at the game. She had some chicken strips and finally some cotton candy.

Sydni didn't really pay that much attention to the game. She was more interested in talking throughout the game. The people around us got a kick out of her -- at least I hope they did; no one moved ;-) -- she was very interested in the bugs that were around the lights and wondering if the bigger bugs were the momma bugs and saying that they didn't have any daddy bugs. Even though she didn't want to pay attention to the game, she didn't want to leave. They went into extra innings but I told her they were just playing "extra" but the real game was over so we could leave.

oh barnacles...

That is Sydni's new phrase. Whenever something doesn't go right, she'll just say "oh barnacles". It sounds so cute! Her other catch phrase is still around..."and did you know..."; Mom and Diane didn't quite believe me when I was telling them and asked them if they heard her saying that....until she started saying it to them. Once she starts talking she'll keep on -- and most of the conversation will include "and did you know...". So very cute!

one on one time...

Saturday night Caleb and I went to see the Round Rock Express. I decided a couple of weeks ago to start taking one kid to do something fun every weekend. Caleb wanted to go first so he picked going to see the game. He loves watching baseball now. He asked if I was going to take him every day! And the hot dogs aren't bad. Tonight he took his calculator to keep track of the homeruns. While we were there, RR had three homeruns. Not bad. By the 7th inning, he had enough so we left. Mid-way through he said "I'm missing mommy". For no apparent reason -- he just missed her. Sweet.

All day long he was asking if it was five yet (that's what time we were leaving for the game). He also wanted to know how much the tickets cost. When I told him $12 each he said "aw man, I only have $1". I told him that's ok, I paid for the tickets. And he said, but I wanted to buy them. He told me after tonights game that he would buy the tickets the next time. How sweet is he?

Jacob is next up for one on one time. He wants to go to Chuck E. Cheese; Sydni picked Disney World for her one on one time. I told her it had to be no more than 30 min. away and some place we could get to without having to take a plane. She finally settled on going to a pottery place to do a little painting.

Earlier in the afternoon, Jacob wanted to tell me a secret -- he had a great idea. How about all three of them go to the game today, and then all three of them could go to Chuck E. Cheese, and then they could all go paint pottery. He said that the other two would be sad when one of them was away without them so he had a great idea. Niet. I bribed him with a movie -- thought it worked until Caleb and I were leaving and I went to say good-bye to him -- he had his baseball cap on and said "am I going?" -- but at least he didn't cry (I don't think).

kids college...

The kids are taking some classes this summer at the local community college. The first class they attended was "Rockin' Readers" and they had a ball. The local paper took a picture of the class for an article on the Kids College so they were on the front page of the paper. Jacob and Sydni were visible but the vowel ball was covering up Caleb.












They will be attending more classes this summer - but one class Sydni won't be attending is "Frolicking Frogs". Granny Gran scared Sydni with a frog story that included the frog having an accident on someone's hand so she decided she didn't want to chance that.

Hearing Sydni trying to say frolicking was so cute -- she would say frilicking frockeling frickiling -- it was just too cute.

cars....

Granny Gran and I took the kids to see Pixar's new movie "Cars" this weekend. We had been waiting and waiting for this movie for so long and couldn't wait to go see it. I promised the kids I would take off work around lunch time so we could go see the movie on the day it came out (June 9); well, of course that didn't happen. But I did get home in time to take them to the 7:15 pm showing at the local theatre. When we got there, there was a line outside waiting to get in and I realized that I had looked at the wrong movie and our movie had actually started at 6:45 pm.

The kids were so disappointed. They wanted me to drive to the big city to take them but I promised them that we would go to the first showing on Saturday. As soon as they woke up this morning, they kept asking if we had missed the movie. It was a long morning -- but we finally made it and loved it. It's a very cute movie -- and they have done a remarkable marketing job for this movie. Unbelievable.

Caleb, Sydni and I went to go see "Over the Hedge" today too. Sydni decided the bear was too much and does not want to buy this movie or ever see it again. Caleb thought it was all funny.

sick again....

Jacob is the one who came down with a stomach bug this past week. Granny Gran called me on Wednesday night (actually Thursday morning) and told me that Jacob had just thrown up. Hoping this was just a one-time deal, I told her to call me if he threw up again. I hadn't even gotten in to bed yet when she called that he threw up again. So there I go to his house -- long story short, he threw up like 14 times from midnight to 6am. I took him in to the emergency room at around 3:30 am (Diane met me there -- she had to come from work); Granny Gran had given him two suppositories but those didn't work. The doctors had to give him an anti-nauseous pill and we thought it had worked but once we were in the potty, he threw up again.

At least he didn't get dehydrated like he has in the past -- out of all three kids, he is the one who gets dehydrated the quickest and the worst. He's finally back to his old self (can't keep his hands off Caleb and always tatteling on Sydni) -- thank goodness.

baseball game....

We went to the Round Rock Express game with the kids today. Aunt Yolanda, Noah, Tristan, Lexi and Desiree joined us as well. Larry the Cucumber and Bob the Tomato from Veggie Tails were there at the game and Larry threw out one of the first pitches.



Today's game was against the Omaha Royals. Luke Scott, LF for the Express, hit two homeruns while we were there. Below is a picture of him hitting the second homerun -- a little blurry but I was happy to have gotten the picture.

Caleb was especially interested in the game and he has expressed an interest in participating in the baseball camp that the RR Express holds each summer. He's still too young this year but I promised him next year he can do it.

playdate...

Caleb, Jacob and Sydni had a playdate at the miniature golf course on Saturday. They have been patiently waiting for this course to open so Diane decided to treat them by having some friends join them. We played lots of golf and they all had fun. They are ready for their little golf camp later this month.



After golf, Granny Gran and I took the kids to the pool since some of Sydni's friends were going over there. It felt so good to be in the water but it was also a very tiring day.

Edited to add: After swimming, I took the kids to Sonic to pick up dinner; while we are waiting Sydni tells me she has a "Gripz" stuck in her nose. I turn around and say "what?" and she repeated it. That crazy little girl had put a bunch of "Gripz" in her hand and bent down to suck them in to her mouth -- and one accidentally got sucked up her nose. She tried her best to push it out from the outside but it didn't work -- so I had to tell her to hold her other nostril down and blow out -- it took a while but it finally FLEW out and the boys thought it was the coolest thing. First Jacob with a rock then Sydni with a "Gripz" -- not sure what to expect from Caleb.

class of 2018...

Yesterday was Kindergarten Graduation for the class of 2018. It was such a treat to watch the kids go through the line and shake hands with the school board members as they officially became First Graders.

Caleb, Sydni and Jacob loved their Kindergarten classmates and their teachers. Each one also thoroughly enjoyed recess, according to their memory books.




They are also doing great and are all above where kids going into the First Grade should be so we are proud of them for studying hard. They'll be having a play date with their classmates next weekend sort of as an early birthday party since their birthday is in the summer when they won't be seeing much of their former classmates.

Also, our cousin Paula graduated high school last night and the kids cousin Chelsea will graduate high school this weekend.

classy conduct...

Today was the last six weeks of school awards ceremony. I am so glad my trip to NYC ended in time for me to be there.

All three kids got a Classy Conduct award. This award is given to kids for getting mostly smiley faces in class for the entire six weeks.

Luckily for Jacob, today's conduct didn't play into whether or not he got the award....(cough cough principal's office cough cough).

Sydni and Caleb went to the doctor today and they both have viral infections -- and Sydni was confirmed to have pink eye. Her eye is getting much better but it's still a little gookey. Hopefully the kids will be able to fully recover from all these illnesses over the summer.

more illnesses....

Jacob was sick some last week and this week. I rushed home from work on Friday night (at 11pm!) because Mom said that Jacob was getting a rash all over and he was really crying. Poor thing had red splotches all over his body and he could not get comfortable enough to get to sleep. Mom called the 800 nurses number and they asked her all these questions -- does he have the rash on his cheeks? YES -- are his ears red? YES -- are his lips swollen? OH MY GOODNESS! THEY ARE!!! His bottom lip became swollen so fast and so red. I couldn't tell if he was puckering out his lip or if it was actually swollen -- but it was SWOLLEN! The nurse said to give him Benadryl asap so we did and immediately he started feeling better. He woke up and was jumping around and having a grand old time. It was a little scary there -- I was very close to taking him to the ER. The doctor called back shortly after that and told Mom that it was an allergic reaction to his medicine and to keep giving him Benadryl. He's gotten the rash -- not as severe -- a few more times because the medicine is still in his system, but it's not as bad as it was last weekend.

And today Sydni developed pink eye. When I got to the house tonight (after being in NYC all week) she ran up to me and her poor eye was red and gunky (the kids couldn't agree on what to call it -- Sydni did not like Caleb's calling it "eye mocos"). Hopefully this won't last too long as it's painful and uncomfortable for her.



Wednesday was Field Day at school. Jacob wasn't able to go because he was still sick. Sydni and Caleb had a great time. Sydni's class won first place in one of the games and Caleb's class won second place.

Last Friday was Field Trip to the Zoo day for the Kindergarten class. Po-Po and I went on the field trip with Caleb and Sydni. Jacob once again wasn't able to go because he was home sick -- and he cried and cried because he couldn't go -- a trip to the zoo for him will be coming up. The kids were so excited to be going on the bus. The parents had to follow in cars behind the buses -- picture five buses full of kids and 20 cars of parents trailing the buses. We all had a good time.



Last Saturday was the last day of soccer for the kids. They had so much fun -- and were all great at getting to the ball. The YMCA gave them medals for their participation.

Next up....golf camp