At lunch today I was asking JP about his day and who he played with on the playground and it went something like this:
Mom-"Hey JP, who did you play with on the playground today?"
JP-"I played with new friends." (This was a nice thing to hear since everyday until today he has told me that he plays by himself because he doesn't like anyone in his class)
Mom-"That's great! What did you play?"
JP-blank stare
Mom-"Did you play with your buddy Cassidy?"
JP-"Mom, Tassidy isn't a buddy because she's a dirl (girl). Boys are buddys and dirls are (pause), dirls are dirls."
The Reed Anytime Review
Friday, September 17, 2010
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Pictures from the Lakehouse and Tennessee
In order to get adequately caught up on the blog I am just going to post some pictures from our trip to the lakehouse and to Tennessee during the month of September. We had such a wonderful time on both of these trips and it is hard to believe that it was nearly a month ago that we took them.
Shelby and JP are totally in love with their cousins Reed and Grant. They had a dance party on Saturday night and during the day on Saturday they threw a surprise birthday party for JP.
Papa John, JP, Grant and Shelby at the Dance Party
Grant and JP waiting for the surprise birthday party
Reed and JP at the surprise birthday party 
The Show
Shelby in deep thought at The Goat
JP not in deep thought at The Goat
That's my girl!
I love that smile
Shelby and JP are totally in love with their cousins Reed and Grant. They had a dance party on Saturday night and during the day on Saturday they threw a surprise birthday party for JP.
Papa John, JP, Grant and Shelby at the Dance Party
Grant and JP waiting for the surprise birthday party
Reed and JP at the surprise birthday partyAnd the pictures from the Lakehouse. Shelby decided to choreograph a dance for Grammie and I to watch. She took Papa, Pratt, JP and Gracie into the other room, showed them what to do and then started the show. It was so cute. She stood at the door and told each one when it was there turn. It was a big hit and I am sure we will see a rendition on Broadway one day.
The Show
Shelby in deep thought at The Goat
JP not in deep thought at The Goat
That's my girl!
I love that smileReality Check
Today I had a moment. I was at the gym working out with my gym buddies and at the end took a moment to myself to finish up my workout when, wham!!! all the sudden it hit me...I am getting old! I have a house, a real house with a mortgage payment. I have two children; two children, not babies or just one child, but two children who are growing up and are in school 5 days a week! I am not in my twenties anymore, I am 31! Did I mention that I have a real house with a mortgage payment?!?!?! Oh my goodness, when did that happen? I must have lost track at some point because I don't remember it or maybe this is all a dream and tomorrow I will wake up 17 again.
Truth is, the time has gone by so fast because I love my life!! There are times where it is challenging and there are times where I want to act like a 3 year old by throwing a hissy fit because I am not getting my way about something, but all in all, I truly love my life!!! I love my husband more than the day I married him and I love my children. I love my friends and my community! What a blessed life I have!
Truth is, the time has gone by so fast because I love my life!! There are times where it is challenging and there are times where I want to act like a 3 year old by throwing a hissy fit because I am not getting my way about something, but all in all, I truly love my life!!! I love my husband more than the day I married him and I love my children. I love my friends and my community! What a blessed life I have!
Monday, September 13, 2010
Still Life by Shelby
About a week before Labor Day weekend Pratt was looking at his work schedule and discovered that he had the weekend off so we decided to take advantage of this rarity and head up to the lakehouse for one final swim of the summer. It was a great trip and we of course had a blast, and I will post more pictures about that later. Right now I want to take this opportunity to explore Shelby's fascination and love of photography. It started while we were in Belize earlier this year. She wanted to take pictures of everything so we let her use the camera a few times while we were there. For her birthday she got a children's digital camera and has been taking pictures ever since.
One day while we were hanging around in side for a little break from the sun and water she asked if she could use my camera to take some pictures. Later that night I decided to look through to see what she captured and was tickled at the amount of pictures she had taken and what she deemed worthy of picture taking. These are just a few of what captured her eye; there are probably about 20 more, but I couldn't fit them all in.
I may have to give her my camera and get a new one:)
One day while we were hanging around in side for a little break from the sun and water she asked if she could use my camera to take some pictures. Later that night I decided to look through to see what she captured and was tickled at the amount of pictures she had taken and what she deemed worthy of picture taking. These are just a few of what captured her eye; there are probably about 20 more, but I couldn't fit them all in.
I may have to give her my camera and get a new one:)
First Day of School 2010
The first day of school seemed like it took forever to get here this year. We were all ready to get back into a daily routine and have a little structure for our days. Don't get me wrong, we love the lazy, hazy days of summer, we love lounging around in the morning with nothing to do and nowhere to go and being able to say "hey, lets do ______ today."; but after a while that gets old and boring and there is just no possible way you could go to the pool one more time. So our time finally came. The night before was filled with a lot of excitment and anticipation.
This year is going to be different for us as both children are out to school 5 days a week and I have started a little part-time job. I actually have to set the alarm in the morning to get up before the children in order to get things going before they wake up so we aren't late...yes, you read that right, I set the alarm to get up before the children. No worries though because in every week there is this day called Saturday that I can linger in bed a little longer.
Shelby was really excited to get back to see all of her friends and to be the oldest in the classroom. She was also excited because our neighbors daughter was going to be in her class. After I picked her up I asked her how her day was and if she helped Addi with anything and she said, "I wanted to color with Addi, but the teachers said I had to finish my math and language work first so I didn't get to color with her. But I wanted to color with her." It was just so funny to me because now she has responsibility and has to make sure she gets work done before she plays.
JP had a great first day and we had absolutely no problems with him getting out of the car. It was very relieving for me because last year everyday that I brought him to school he put a fight when it was time to get out of the car. When I picked him up he was so excited and talked my ear off about his day.
I have a feeling that tonights gonna be a good night, that tonights....oh wait, didn't mean to go there...I have a feeling that this is going to be a great year!!!
This year is going to be different for us as both children are out to school 5 days a week and I have started a little part-time job. I actually have to set the alarm in the morning to get up before the children in order to get things going before they wake up so we aren't late...yes, you read that right, I set the alarm to get up before the children. No worries though because in every week there is this day called Saturday that I can linger in bed a little longer.
Shelby was really excited to get back to see all of her friends and to be the oldest in the classroom. She was also excited because our neighbors daughter was going to be in her class. After I picked her up I asked her how her day was and if she helped Addi with anything and she said, "I wanted to color with Addi, but the teachers said I had to finish my math and language work first so I didn't get to color with her. But I wanted to color with her." It was just so funny to me because now she has responsibility and has to make sure she gets work done before she plays.
JP had a great first day and we had absolutely no problems with him getting out of the car. It was very relieving for me because last year everyday that I brought him to school he put a fight when it was time to get out of the car. When I picked him up he was so excited and talked my ear off about his day.
I have a feeling that tonights gonna be a good night, that tonights....oh wait, didn't mean to go there...I have a feeling that this is going to be a great year!!!
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Gymnatics
Shelby decided that this fall she wanted to do gymnastics. After making sure that is what she really wanted we drove out and registered. Of course, I was so excited and immediately had to remind myself not to live my life through my children (you know those parents who do that and they are so annoying) because I loved gymnastics when I was growing up. I took it for about 6 years and always dreamed of being in the Olympics, but when I realized how hard those athletes had to work for that I quit and gave a try at swimming and after a few years of swimming they started wanting us to get up early to practice before school started even in the winter!!! There is no way I was getting in a pool in the winter, especially in the morning before school, so I quit and then once I got to high school I enjoyed playing several different sports; but enough about me....back to Shelby.
Anyway, I wasn't able to be here to get her ready for her first day so I left that up to Pratt. Evidently it didn't go very smooth. First there was a melt down over her hair. She is very particular about how you brush it and when you brush and what you do with it after you brush it so the first fight went down over the hair. Then when they got to the gym Shelby decided that she didn't want to leave her daddy and had a melt down over that which ended with the coach holding her hand and basically dragging her away. So much for all the enthusiasm that was around leading up to this day. In anticipation of the smiles that would be on Shelby's face as she prepared for her first day I asked Pratt to take some pictures and instead of a smiling, excited little girl; Shelby gave us her angry teenager look....oh dear, makes me wonder what her teen years will be like:)
Anyway, I wasn't able to be here to get her ready for her first day so I left that up to Pratt. Evidently it didn't go very smooth. First there was a melt down over her hair. She is very particular about how you brush it and when you brush and what you do with it after you brush it so the first fight went down over the hair. Then when they got to the gym Shelby decided that she didn't want to leave her daddy and had a melt down over that which ended with the coach holding her hand and basically dragging her away. So much for all the enthusiasm that was around leading up to this day. In anticipation of the smiles that would be on Shelby's face as she prepared for her first day I asked Pratt to take some pictures and instead of a smiling, excited little girl; Shelby gave us her angry teenager look....oh dear, makes me wonder what her teen years will be like:)
Last week went much better and I am sure that today will be even better. She is more excited now and when I dropped her off last week she didn't even think twice about going on in and getting started.
Just wanted to do a quick update on my mom...she is doing wonderfully! The surgery went very well and she came home last Monday from the hospital. She is recovering nicely and the doctor called to say that the biopsies came by negative so that was great news because we got confirmation that the cancer hadn't spread!!! In a few weeks they are going to do one round of radiation just to be certain that they get it all.
Reading
Last night we were driving home and from the back seat I heard Shelby reading from a book that my mom had given us from her school. It is a book that has each letter on a page with that letter in words on another page to help children learn phonics. Here is a list of the words she read all by herself:
ant, fan, mask
cat, crab, cut
desk, dog, sad
egg, net, pelican (she had a little help on this one)
fern, flag, frog
gum, gorilla
hug
dig
jet, jogger
basket, king, sink
She has been working on sounding out short three letter words, but I was totally floored and proud when she started busting out the blended sounds of some of these words. I have no idea if this is what normal 5 year olds can read or not, but to me it is huge and I can't wait to see all that she has stored up in that mind of hers!!!
And then some other things.....
Last week and this week is practice school at the Montessori school. Last week Shelby went with all the other returning primary students and this week JP is going with all the new and rising toddler students. Since all the other schools are in session some of us got together after carpool for practice school last week for a picnic down by the river. It was great fun and I was so glad to get out for a bit. These last few weeks have been so hot and we are all getting a little stir crazy being inside all the time so it was a welcomed outing. All the children had so much fun and you couldn't ask for a more beautiful setting. Here is my attempt at the group shot. I am sure someone else got a better picture with their camera, but this one is kind of fun. We are missing Carson and you can see a little bit of Tucker behind his sister.
Along with the heat keeping us indoors, we have also had a ton of thunderstorms lately. We love to play in the rain, but not the lightning so we haven't gotten any playing in the rain shots this year like we usually do. Finally one day last week the rain came alone and so we went out to play. JP got all geared up and when we got outside the rain slowed and then stopped:( Nevertheless, I was able to get this picture of my little man before he took off the rain gear.
ant, fan, mask
cat, crab, cut
desk, dog, sad
egg, net, pelican (she had a little help on this one)
fern, flag, frog
gum, gorilla
hug
dig
jet, jogger
basket, king, sink
She has been working on sounding out short three letter words, but I was totally floored and proud when she started busting out the blended sounds of some of these words. I have no idea if this is what normal 5 year olds can read or not, but to me it is huge and I can't wait to see all that she has stored up in that mind of hers!!!
And then some other things.....
Last week and this week is practice school at the Montessori school. Last week Shelby went with all the other returning primary students and this week JP is going with all the new and rising toddler students. Since all the other schools are in session some of us got together after carpool for practice school last week for a picnic down by the river. It was great fun and I was so glad to get out for a bit. These last few weeks have been so hot and we are all getting a little stir crazy being inside all the time so it was a welcomed outing. All the children had so much fun and you couldn't ask for a more beautiful setting. Here is my attempt at the group shot. I am sure someone else got a better picture with their camera, but this one is kind of fun. We are missing Carson and you can see a little bit of Tucker behind his sister.
Along with the heat keeping us indoors, we have also had a ton of thunderstorms lately. We love to play in the rain, but not the lightning so we haven't gotten any playing in the rain shots this year like we usually do. Finally one day last week the rain came alone and so we went out to play. JP got all geared up and when we got outside the rain slowed and then stopped:( Nevertheless, I was able to get this picture of my little man before he took off the rain gear.
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