Just me and the Boys

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Jake's Kinder Graduation

The best decision Dax and I made was to have Jake go to Private school for kindergarten. Janie his teacher is an amazing human being. She taught Jake so much. I cannot believe is is able to read and also do the math that he is doing, along with telling time, counting money and of course spelling. And not lets forget all the art...i have the neatest art projects from her.
She also taught the kids alot about god and jesus sometimes i felt he learned more about god then he did in sunday school!
Her program is a phonics program that teaches the kids to spell to read. We are so lucky to have her in our lives. I will miss her terribly when we move. I always joked with her that she could home school Jake for us like she did her own. She tries to convince me that i could do it. okay quit laughing.. hahaha.

Janie had the kids practice for a couple weeks the graduation program and i would love to say it went without a hitch, but it didn't. For the 1st time ever the girls got extremely silly, which snowballed into a 5 minute laugh fest. when things calmed down we enjoyed some singing and got a taste of what they learned all year.. Thanks Janie for giving us the tools to teach Jake further down his education.. I am a little nervous about Jake heading off to a 30 kids classroom at public school but i also feel kids need that kind of worldly experience as well.

Baseball Ice Cream Party

Some shots from baseball. Jake wants to run super fast he says and spends afternoons running the culdasac while i time him. ( i humor him and try to shave a second here and there) he goes as far as running inside the house changing into his under armour and shorts and off he goes. His team had won the fundraiser and earned a ice cream party. So after his one game and this 1st awesome weather day we all had ice cream with all the toppings you can think of. of course he loaded gummy worms and whip cream on his

Tanner the future Money Man

Tanner is now mowing lawns for money and is doing a great job keeping up with EVERYTHING else he is doing and now is making some money on his own. What surprises me is he is the only kid here in the neighborhood wanting the work, so i am guessing he's going to be rolling in the money this summer while were here..
I have to say he is growing up to be such a great kid. So well mannered despite those occasional pre teen moods and he is always aiming to please.. his final progress report for this year came in the mail and he's still 4.0 and no absents. he's got three weeks of school left The no absents was a goal for himself to make it all year without missing school..It's funny what goals kids come up with. he also wants to run under a 6min mile and he's edging his way towards that.

I miss him so much right now because he went to out door school this week. At 1st he wasn't looking forward to it, but the week before he got very excited.. I hope your having a blast little man and i miss you.

Mothers Day

Mothers day was 2 weeks ago and i am just posting it today.. What can I tell you? I woke up to Tanner asking me how i want my eggs prepared? They had both made me homemade cards (the best gift ever) Tanner made a glass plant with rocks and a bulb. ( i am keeping it water and looking forward to the bloom) Jake made me a potted plant with his hand print and a rock painted lady bug in the pot next to a seed that will grow into a pretty flower he says..
We went out to town for the day where we had dinner at Red Lobster and Saw the Iron Man movie and did a little shopping. it was a fun day to get out and just play. No sports, church, chores or homework...

MAY DAY the sweet boy made me pretty paper flowers in a paper vase. He rand our door bell and left it out front for me to receive.. He is the sweetest boy...

Last Month or So

The last month has been a busy one for the clan. Tanner had track and field. juggling the practices and also Tae kwon do kept this guy pretty busy. He enjoyed the practices allot. He decided to challenge himself and run in the longer races. 1500 and 800 meters. he hung in there pretty well though and did okay being just a 6Th grader, i think it gave him great experience for the following middle school years. he's got the sprinters body and the sprinter in me would of loved to see him try the 100-200 meter races as well as the 4x4 relay. he said maybe next year he was a little shy and maybe intimidated by the older kids. he also gave long jump a try...The season was over within 6 weeks and we just ended it last week. I had a blast going to the meets and watching all the events.

Jake played T-ball. we had 2 games per week. here he is playing catcher. He loved being on the pitchers mound the best. he's a pretty good hitter but kept asking me when he can be pitched to instead of hitting the tee. In due time little guy. We had allot of rain so some of the games were actually played on the soccer field, because the b-ball field was too wet.
This is the art room i made for Jake 3 years ago when we bought this home. It was the closet in the kitchen living area. I painted a chalk board added the molding and decorated with Jake and tanner's hand prints. (that was such a fun project for us. they loved dipping there hands the the different colors of paint and plastering them all over the walls. i should try to get a picture of that side of the wall. There is a small art table and chair behind Jake and a book shelf with books and art supplies. All of there art work is displayed in this room along with favorite photos..