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Monday, August 31, 2009

First Week Down - 40 to Go!


The first week of school was a big success! Everyone got to school on time, no missed buses, no screaming or crying (except me...) and everyone was happy to have "lazy days" over the weekend!

Friday night, Justin, Mason and friends decided to go to the first Bradley football game. Unfortunately, the weather did not cooperate and we had severe storms all evening, so they didn't get to play.


While the guys were getting rained out at the game - Ella, Silas and I were at home all cozy in pj's and having movie night. I knew they would be exhausted after their first week at school and decided taking them out late to a football game would result in major meltdowns.


On Saturday, the kids and I headed to the mall to get Ella new earrings! She has had her ears pierced now for 6 weeks and can change her earrings as she wants now. We got her 3 new sets of earrings (9 pair). The first pair that she decided to wear were cute polka dot buttons.

Saturday night, Justin, Mason, Ella and friends went to the rescheduled Bradley game (Jags won 19-18!!) and Silas and I went to the school to play. It was a beautiful evening - definitely felt more like a late-September or October night!

Silas had fun running, sliding, racing his cars down the slide and having the park all to himself.

Sunday was full of cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping, bike riding and my divine book group. And now we're off to Week 2 of school - hopefully it goes as well as the first...

Saturday, January 12, 2008

Out for some fresh air

Ella started back to swim lessons this morning. Everyone must have made their "get-fit" New Year's resolutions because the Y was packed!! Ella is starting to tread water for a few seconds on her own, but that is about as far as it goes. She's not afraid to get in, get her face wet and will even go under water but she hates when they try to get her to float on her back. This is her 3rd session of swim lessons.

Justin and I had full test coffee this morning (instead of our usual 1/2 caff) and it seemed to boost our productivity...we were buzzing a bit and got some cleaning and organizing done around the house. We might have to make that a permanent switch!
It warmed up to about 46 degrees today so we went out for a walk and took Ella and Si to the school to play. Poor Mas was still sick and was snoozing at home.

The kids had a blast running around and climbing on everything and rolling down the hill. I love El's face when she gets to the bottom :)













































Silas climbed on everything there was - he had a bit of trouble here...








Up
, down - oops, on the ground.














Cry for a bout...
















Then comes the pout.


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