I haven't updated this site in so long, I doubt anyone even bothers to look at it anymore. On the off chance that one of you, my friends and family, does decide to stop and look us up I thought I'd try again.
Blogging reminds me so much of my pre-teen diary days. I still have those diaries and I always get a giggle when I see so many skipped dates. Especially when there are entries like "sorry, so busy!" I mean what could I have possible been so busy with at 14? And even more questionable, why did I bother to write an apology to a piece of paper? Maybe that apology was really to my future self. The 36 year old me fondly looking back in time trying to see what that younger me was all about. "Sorry, 14 year old me is to busy to remind 37 year old me what I was doing in 1987." I digress.
What HAS kept me so busy lately is the care and keeping of two little boys. Little boys that before my eyes have more in common every day with big boys. Out with Thomas the Train, in with Star Wars and Bakugan. Quiet play is out and battles and brawls are in. You'd think that it wouldn't be in one fell swoop like this. You'd think that with a four year old still around we'd still be in sort of a babyland. but alas, no one told me that the second is a baby for even a shorter period than the first. While at four Jackson was still a sweet little baby who loved Thomas the Tank engine and sitting in my lap he's moved on to wilder things like light-saber battles and Bakugan brawls. Grant, instead of staying behind has moved right along with him. It's bye-bye PBS and Disney and hello Nickleodeon and Cartoon Network.
You can regularly find the boys locked in a wrestling position on the floor or swinging light sabers while shouting "come on Captain Rex let's go shoot the bad guys!" My personal favorite is the other day when while playing Star Wars, Grant yelled "come on Anakin we've got to save Obi-Wan...he's got a boo-boo."
So here I am, the product of parents who raised two sweet docile little girls, with two hell raising little boys. Well, one really. Jackson is a romper room doobie, but Grant'll give the devil a run for his money. I called a friend recently who has 3 boys for advice, she at least assured me that they're not abnormal. My mother has a saying that unless you have more than one child you do not have "children" ie, you know "who did it" etc. My own personal philosophy has expanded that now to be that unless you have more than one boy, you don't have boys.
Anyway, for recent updates...
Jackson is doing great in kindergarten this year. He loves school and his teacher and his friends in his class. Apparently he is some little girl's "boyfriend." I say it this way because he announced at dinner last night that Ashlyn broke up with him. I was a little taken aback because it seemed so odd coming out of my 6 year old's mouth. I asked him if he was okay with that and he said "yeah, I didn't even know we were together anyway" and "she told me I was her boyfriend again later at recess." Young love. I suppose I shouldn't worry though because he did tell Ashlyn that she was only one of his girlfriends, his nana and his mommy were the other two. What a juxtaposition!
Grant is happily bouncing along through pre-k three's this year. It dawned on me recently that by this age Jack was writing his name as well as knew the entire alphabet, so we've been working on that a lot recently. I'm proud to report that now he can write all the letters in his name, although not always in the correct order and he knows every letter but U and V. Oh, and at his parent teacher conference we were a bit worried when Mrs. Edwards told us he only knew 5 of 8 shapes, that is until we found out the shapes that had him stumped were octagon, hexagon and rhombus. Neither Heath nor I are worried anymore.
Both boys are enjoying playing soccer right now, we have our first game on Saturday. It should be a riot as they've only had one practice and neither has any idea how to play the game. Jackson told us the rules, no hands and kick toward the goal. He now knows as much as we do about soccer. Grant is a true little athlete and is just great to watch. He is as strong and focused as he can be and it's so fun to see him really doing something he loves. The same goes for gymnastics. Against my original hesitations, I enrolled both boys in gymnastics. Grant's been taking for about a year and is loving it. Jackson's been taking a few months and likes it too, but mainly he likes just goofing off with the other boys in his class. Mommy likes it because I get to watch Olympian silver medalist Jonathan Horton work out. It's amazing. Well, hopefully I've caught up a bit, no way to do 6 months in one blog, I guess we'll just go from here!
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