Broken Toe

Yesterday as we were walking down the stairs to get in the car to take Brooklyn to school a very unfortunate accident happened. Josh decided to stop right in front of me while I am rushing as usual to get in the car. Well I didn't see him stop and I ended up hitting the back of his foot and just about ripped my pinky toe off. Oh my goodness did it hurt. It took a while for it to get all bruised up and now it is swollen enough that I don't feel a lot of the pain. But don't you dare touch it, because you might end up with a broken toe too.

Field Day

So as the school year winds up the kids are starting to have all their fun activities at school. Well Monday was Field Day and the kids got to go out do lots of little activities. I took Josh along with me, which in the end was a pretty bad idea because he was not allowed to do any of the activities with Brooklyn which made him pretty mad. But it was fun to see Brooklyn play with her friends and have a lot of fun.

Birthday Party Fun

Brooklyn and Josh went to our neighbors birthday party this last weekend and had a blast. They had Party Pets come to the party. The kids were amazed at all the animals the man brought. There were snakes, a huge tortoise, a guinea pig, a ferret, a rabbit, a gerbil, and geckos. The best part of all of it was that they got to hold the pets. I was amazed that Josh held them all, without showing any kind of fear. Very fun stuff.












So that one of Josh looks like fear, but I think it was more of having the picture taken because he seriously did love it.

Playgroup for the Boys

I just had to put pictures up of Josh and all his little friends that get together once a week for Playgroup. He is usually good for a couple of days after playgroup but then he starts naming off all the boys and begging for them to come over again. He loves playing with them and can't seem to get enough.














Caleb, Cameron, Josh, Justin, and Grayson taking a break and having a snack.

Kindergarten Presentation

All of the Kindergartner's got to do a small presentation for their parents. They sang songs about everything they had learned throughout the year. This included riding the bus, washing your hands, brushing your teeth, having a good attitude, and how to be polite. Brooklyn got nervous before it started but I managed to get her to her classroom and it was cute to see her singing all the songs and doing all the hand motions that went with them (one of the few kids that actually did it). It is really weird to think that in 3 months she will be going to school as a first grader. I guess it is time for me and John to get busy and make another baby. (just kiddin' John) But seriously Brooklyn and Josh are just growing up too fast!

Here are some pictures with the camera. If I can figure out how to upload the video camera on here I will put some of that on too.

Author's Tea

Every year, the Kindergartners at Brooklyn's school get to show off all the stories that they have written throughout the year. So I arrived at her classroom and all the kids were sitting at their tables with their writings in front of them. I sat down with Brooklyn and looked through her big binder of writings and read all the stories. We then read the "big story" that they had focused on for this day. It was amazing to see how much her writing and story telling had improved through the year. It was really funny to see her even trying to read some of the stories that she had written when school had first started.

After we were done looking through all her things we sat around waiting for something to happen, but nothing did. For some reason I thought there would be a little presentation from all the kids, but that didn't happen. It was probably better since I am sure Brooklyn would have had a major breakdown.

In the handout that we got from the teacher it said we would be able to take our kids home with us if we wanted to. Now remember, school starts at 7:30 and this started at 8:00. So after 2 hours of school the kids were allowed to leave. I asked Brooklyn if she wanted to stay or go home and of course her answer was to go home. We decided to take full advantage of this and we all headed to Carowinds for an afternoon of roller coasters and fun times.

It ended up being a really fun day for us and Brooklyn got to be the star of the day!!