Cousin fun

We had a great visit with our family in San Antonio last weekend. The kids were thrilled to hang out with their cousins. They had a great time playing with everyone and were excited about the great big sleep over we had with them.


We enjoyed celebrating our nieces birthday and catching up with family. I stayed up well into the night enjoying a visit with my sister in laws and was quite tired the next day. Lucky for me, I got a little nap in at John's parents house before we drove back.
We enjoyed the weekend and it was a nice visit for everyone.

And the winner is . . .

AUSTIN!

Today Austin's class had a Spelling Bee.

We've known it was coming for a couple of weeks and Austin was very excited about it. He loves reading and spelling, so it was right up his alley. There are lots of bright kids in his class and I knew there were plenty of them who were up to the challenge. Yesterday they had a trial run and Austin was the runner up. He said he got really nervous and missed a word that he knew. He got over his jitters today and was able to spell his way to the end. They went into their tie breaker list and

I-N-T-R-O-D-U-C-T-I-O-N

was the winning word.

It was fun to get his phone call in the middle of the day announcing the good news that he had won. Hooray!

Good job Austin!

As I was tucking him in to bed tonight, Austin told me that he wants to be a world class spelling bee champion so that he can win trillions of dollars. That would be great.

I hope he'll share his winnings.

Climber

Every time I turn around, Cameron is climbing on something. He also finds great joy in pulling all of the toilet paper off the rolls. Yesterday he made his way up onto the dining room table and rolled out the entire roll of paper towels. What a great mixture of two favorite activities!

He gave me a grand smile when I discovered him & asked what he was up to. He looked over his handy-work and reported, "no-no, no-no!"

I guess the first step is admitting that there is a problem, right?

Next will be controlling the urge to make big messes when you know you aren't supposed to. I guess that comes in another 15 years or so...hopefully. ;-)


It was sure cute though, and not really that big a deal since it made him awfully happy!

Team Suits

Brookie is VERY excited for her first swim meet tomorrow!
She has been counting down the days all week.

At swim practice yesterday the kids got their new team suits.
Well, that just made Brooke's month! Not only is she big enough to be on the swim team and gets to have her first meet this weekend, but a cute new swimsuit that matches her friends?? Does it get any better? Not for her. She was ecstatic! She and her friend Taylor danced around after practice in their matching suits with permanent smiles glued on their faces. It was very cute.

Brooke told me several times yesterday evening and this morning, that she LOVES her new suit. It took some convincing to get her to take it off last night. She wanted to sleep in it. She even asked if she could wear it to school, under her clothes of course, so she could show her class. :-) I promised we'd share pictures with the class after the meet.

I'm so glad that she's a part of something that she is so excited about!

She just adores Austin and the fact that she has joined him on the swim team has just made her feel so grown up.
Both kids are right at home in the pool and excited for their first meet. I'm excited for them too.

I'm sure they'll do great!

ABC Project

Austin made this video at school. He looked up all the facts and pictures. Then he put them all together and did all the voice over narration. His Discovery class worked on this project for many weeks, as they learned the ins and outs of research. Here is his end result. He was very proud if it and we are very proud of him. Enjoy...