Soccer Saturday Part II

Drew is finally old enough to play soccer and boy is he thrilled. He too had his first game on Saturday. The game started and what does Drew do, but dribble the ball the entire length of the field and score the first goal! It was so awesome. He is a natural athlete! It was so fun watching him play because he was so excited. There are girls on Drew's team too, but as you can see from the picture he doesn't mind at all. Go Green Dragons!

Soccer Saturday Part I

Alex started soccer on Saturday. His team has 5 girls and only 3 boys. Needless to say he is not thrilled. Furthermore, his team has the same uniforms as Drew's and that didn't sit to well with him since he wanted to be silver. Despite those few minor setbacks, he played a great game. He is definitely the fastest and seemed to enjoy it. He reports that he is only playing soccer to help him build up speed for track season this spring. He can run track as soon as he's 7 and he can't wait. Go Alex!

Fall Football

How I love this time of year! The start of school, the smell of fall in the air, and football season. With Ethan playing football it makes it even better! Ethan is doing great and absolutely loving it! His team lost a heartbreaker right at the end. Hopefully, they'll have better luck next week.

First Day of School

It's hard to believe, but today was Ethan and Alex's first day of school. Ethan's 3rd grade teacher is Miss Seacrest. He said she was nice and tall! Alex's 1st grade teacher is Mrs. Baker. He likes her a lot. The boys both had a great day. Alex liked bringing his own lunch and ate everything! Ethan has lunch at 10:32 am. A little early, but he seemed to like that. Alex thought lunch at 11:17 am was a little too late because he was hungry. We're looking forward to a wonderful school year.

Go Knights!

Ethan's first football game was yesterday. He played awesome! They played on a regulation 100 yard field complete with refs. The game lasted about an hour and a half. It was so HOT! Ethan played left guard and right tackle on offense. He is number 22. He is quite the amazing blocker. Nobody gets by him. He really enjoys it. It was so much fun watching him. I see a lot of football games in our future. Good thing we love it!

High School Musical 2

The world premiere of High School Musical 2 was last night and the boys absolutely loved it. (Let's be honest, I did too :)!) Every time they would start singing Peyton would yell, "Alex! Song, dance!" Alex, Drew, and Peyton practically danced the entire show. It was hilarious! Ethan and I enjoyed watching all the boys dance moves. Peyton would get so upset when the songs would end. He would say, "More songs," until another song came on. I definitely think we'll have to get the soundtrack!

Bubbles!

There's nothing like playing with bubbles. The Gymboree bubbles are the greatest! The boys had a fun time chasing, catching, and popping bubbles. Summer days are the best!





(Ethan is not absent from the posts on purpose. He's spending most of his time at football practice. His first game is Saturday. He's so excited. Pictures to come...)

No more binkie!

The binkie is no longer! Peyton has been quite the character lately. I think he may be suffering from binkie withdrawal. He gave up the binkie about 2 weeks ago all by himself. He's only asked for it a handful of times, but sometimes I think he misses the comfort of it. To top things off at the same time he gave up his binkie, his favorite little blanket that he has to sleep with ripped. He just keeps saying, "Blanky broken," when we put him to bed. I've tried to give him a different blanket, but he promptly throws it out of his crib and says, "Don't like it. Time out." Poor guy. At least he always slept with two little blankets, so he still has one of them. He has been up to quite the antics. I opened the fridge to get the kids a snack. I found some very interesting items. When I tried to take them out the cute 2 year old was beside himself. Needless to say, they stayed in the fridge for a couple of days. During which he would come and check on his "treasures" to make sure no one had moved them. Now if we could just find Aaron's watch!

Most everyone knows how Drew loves a good car wash. Well, the boys asked if they could clean the car. I mean who could say no. They were offering to do work. They did a great job. The wheels have never looked cleaner!

Rub a Dub Dub Three Ducks in a Tub

Peyton loves taking baths. He'll stop anything he's doing to take a "green." He has to have a Crayola bath tablet in all his baths. At least he's learning his colors! Lately, he likes to place the Mr. Potato Head glasses on his rubber duckies. He then spends the rest of the bath saying, "Duckies, so funny. So cute," while he cooks ham and donuts. He's a cutie!

Swimming Lessons

The boys have two more days left of swimming lessons. They absolutely love swimming! Ethan is learning all the strokes and he swims 25 yard laps. Alex has learned freestyle and backstroke. He has great freestyle form. Drew is a fish. He can do a front float and swim, not so much with his arms, anywhere he wants to go. Peyton is sad he's not old enough, maybe next year.

24th Festivities

Yesterday was the annual 24th of July festivities. It started off with a great Family Festival at the park. The boys had a great time. There were carnival games and big blow up bouncy things. Their favorite was the fire truck that hosed everyone down during the 100 degree heat. (Peyton is standing in front of the fire truck before the hose started spraying everyone.) The boys were drenched from head to toe, so they decided that they wanted to get dunked. E, Al,and D all got dunked and then took turns throwing the ball to dunk others. The night ended with a barbeque and great fireworks. It was fun having Mom, Dad, Ethan, Natalie, Tots, and Addi here to celebrate. Happy 24th!

SU-Per-MAN

Peyton has decided he is Superman. He is constantly trying to get someone to take his shirt off and tie it around him like a cape. He then runs around, faster than a locomotive, and yells, "SU-per-MAN." The boys think this is absolutely hilarious and constantly encourage him. What a funny 2 year old he is!
PS These are taken with our old camera and I just noticed they're a little blurry since he was running around so fast! :)

Handsome Boys

Aaron held true to his promise of taking pictures of the boys. This morning before church he rounded up the boys and took them outside for pictures. (I had to go to church early to accompany the choir.) He succeeded in getting a really cute picture. He even photo shopped out Drew's black eye, a sprinkler, etc. Good job Aaron!!