Last Soccer Game of the Season

Cailey and Mia had their last game. It is great to see how far they've come since they began. Cailey has a great defensive instinct. When the other team has the ball she'll swing out and head up the field. She was super cute as goalie and blocked probably about 10 shots. She was very alert and moved around, got down low, and used her hands and feet to stop the ball. I was impressed! She and Mia both managed to kick the ball into the goal, though it looked like it was was stopped I couldn't tell if it was stopped before or after it was in the goal. They were very proud of themselves!

Luke's Week

Lukey has gotten into books all of the sudden. Not really so much reading them, but holding them and going around saying, "This is a REALLY good book." I thought it was just kind of like the candle he goes around making people smell saying, "It's good." Turns out it is from Blues Clues which he has been watching old VHS tapes of lately.Luke had a couple meltdowns last week. They were so out there they were more comical than frustrating. One night we were at the park playing frisbee. David picked one up off the ground that Luke had wanted to pick up. Well, that unleashed all the fury a two year old can have. He stormed up the big hill away from all of us yelling the whole way. "Leave me alone!" We'd try to cheer him up but he was having none of it. I decided to drive around the lake around to get him to go to bed while David took the girls in his car. He lashed out at me, "Where are we going? Where are my sisters? I never get to ride with my daddy! I'm MAD at you! I don't want to play with you! Why are we going into that darkness (some trees)?" Whew, he was one mad little boy.Then the next night David was out at a bachelor party when Luke woke up from a late nap. He stormed around crying that he "lost" his daddy and he wanted his daddy. He yelled and cried at the girls and I so I took him upstairs and put him to bed with his Blues Clues video. It got quiet and I read to the girls awhile, when he came back down. I looked at him like, "Why are you down here?" And he looks at me and says, "I'm fine now. I'm better. I wiped my tears." And he really was fine after that. Tonight he was playing Guitar Hero with David when he gets up and says, "I'm going to bed. I'm tired. I don't want to play drums no more." Daddy told him to give me a kiss, and he pointed to his lips and said, "Right here." So I kissed him and he said, "Eww, gross!" and laughed. Just like that and he put himself to bed.

Happy Mother's Day!

For Mother's Day the kids and David woke me up and gave me a digital picture frame. While the gift itself is cool, the real Mother's Day gift came when I began searching for pictures to put on it. I spent a couple hours looking over all the pictures I have stored on my computers picking the "best" ones. What a trip down memory lane! That was even better than the gift itself. Here are a few I put on my frame.

Happy Cinco De Mayo!

Really nothing new going on. Just enjoying the green grass and leaves on the trees. Playing in the backyard.

Luke is big enough to get on a swing on his own now and swing. Such a big boy. I was looking at his hands tonight and realized his thumb is almost as big as mine. So strange to think he'll be bigger than me someday.

The girls have a blast in their playhouse. It is the subject of many stories they write for Writer's Workshop at school. One day their teacher said, "Go home and play in your playhouse in the beautiful weather!" and the girls said, "How does she know we have a playhouse!"

Cailey still loves dogs. She writes about her "CeCeWaWa" (chihuahua) which is a stuffed toy, but you wouldn't know that by the way she writes about it. You'd think it was real. She also wrote a cool story about buying a cactus with daddy at Lowe's, "yestrday wich was Sunday." It is really neat to see how much they've grown this year.

David has been working in our flower beds. Our house would have no curb appeal if it weren't for him. No green thumb here. I think it is totally cool that the kids follow David around in the yard helping him with landscaping projects. It is one time he is totally patient with them I think. Even if he encourages gross hobbies like bug collecting, giving them grubs and pill bugs to stick in the bug catcher. That one had to stay outside!

Mia got right into the thick of things at her last soccer scrimmage. Grandpa said he even saw her throw an elbow to get at the ball! A far cry from the little girl who stood on the sidelines two years ago crying because the other kids kept stealing the ball and weren't sharing.

I love Spring!