Walk to Wellness

Walk to Wellness Woot! Woot! I just completed participation in a walking challenge at my work called Walk to Wellness. The challenge was to walk for 650 minutes in 42 days. I just met the gaol with 8 days to spare. I'm really excited to have spent nearly 30 minutes a day walking (dedicated excercise walking, not walking to the fridge!)

End of Soccer Season

Memorial Weekend we reached the end of our first 8 week soccer season.  I can’t say enough positive things about FFPS – Jacob went from basically having no soccer skills (sorry son!) to being a pretty good little player.  We are excited to sign back up – but in the Fall when it will hopefully be cooler. The only draw back I can think of is just that it was so fun for Jacob now he has a whole list of sports he wants to try!

 

At the start of each game the kids say “Go Gators!”

The weekend before, Will’s parent’s came out to watch Jacob play. Jacob’s classic wink.

 

 

Action shot!

 

It was so, so hot out on the field.  Of course Bella finds a spot perched on someone’s ice chest (the umbrella wasn’t ours either – she’s a mooch!)

 

Goalie throw! (Did I already blog about how at the first practice Jacob thought that being goalie meant he was in Time Out? He asked me afterwards what he did wrong to get sent there!)

 

I was thrilled that Amegy bank sponsored the team, do I have the best job or what?

       

Bella ADORES Coach Becky, whenever she would come to the sidelines Bella would go up and love on her.

 

Full uniform. We got lucky – all the teams wear black shorts with white stripes regardless of the color scheme of the jerseys. Ours matched great, some teams were pretty ugly (lime green and blue with black shorts!)

 

After the last game we had a team pizza party at Double Dave’s.

Notice Bella in the background, “helping” coach hand out the trophies.

Will and I were mortified when Jacob got his trophy and said loudly “I don’t like it!” – oh gosh. And this after asking ALL day when he would get it! You have to know Jacob, he just gets weirded out by anything new sometimes. He got over it and spent the rest of the weekend with the trophy in his hands (we even had to bring it to his grandparents so he could show it to them)

Truth be told, I’m happy to have my Saturday’s back for a while but I am so glad he played.   Jacob is really excited to take gym when he starts Kindergarten in the Fall. I told him this morning that they would cover all sports in gym and he was like “What? Really! Even kickball and basketball?”  I swear I don’t know he ended up loving sports so much but I am really glad that he does. I was such an uncoordinated wreck in gym class but it doesn’t look like either of my kids inherited that – thank goodness. Between gymnastics at school, playing at home and swimming both kids are lean and strong – I hope that it will continue!

Pre-school Graduation

May 24th Jacob had his Kids R Kids graduation ceremony.  The school did such a fine job – the event was held at the Nathaniel Center and there was cake and punch afterward.  Of course we video-taped the whole thing, I’ll have to get it loaded, it is with the real video camera not the camera camera, so it’s a bit more involved.

Anyway – here are the kids’ walking into the center

I had to snap this shot of the back of Bella’s dress- it is so pretty and looked so elegant and grown up.  I put her hair up in a little twist and she wanted to carry her little metal box like a purse. She was adorable that night!

Our graduate -

The sign (since he stood in front of it)

Posing with Daddy. Note the gold tassel signified that he had been a student at Kids R Kids the entire time from Infant Sweet up through Sweet 500.

Posing with me – getting tired of pictures by this point!

Bella found her friend Sophie

Receiving his diploma.  I tried to get a better photo but it was so dark on stage my flash wouldn’t reset fast enough after this shot before he turned to walk back. Luckily it’s on video.

The cake was probably Jacob’s favorite part.

        

They had green and black gift bags for the kids – inside was a book, a class of 2010 t-shirt with all the kids names on the back, a class of 2010 stadium cup, the actual diploma, and a memory book. Each family got to make a page for their child to go in the memory book.

This was ours:  (this should be clickable)

 

Good Times

Our friends the Ege’s came to town and we all met up at Tin roof BBQ. The kid’s love the playground:

 

Bella LOVES Abby Beasley. She calls her “My best friend Abby Beasley”, “My big sister Abby Beasley” and “My little cousin Abby Beasley”.  Whenever she sees her at church or the pool or whatever she has to run and hug her.

 

Last year Will’s Mom got her all these really cute dresses from Gymboree – even though they are 24 m, Gymboree sizes are generous enough that they all still fit her – just shorter this year. 

 

Popsicles on the back porch – something we do most weekends.

 

 

Sunday evenings – we go swimming.

 

Recently I asked Jacob to carry a load of clean towels from the drier into the study where we fold clothes. I thought he would just dump them on the floor or the couch.  Imagine my total surprise when I went in and found that he folded every towel in the pile. And did a great job of it too! He is really growing up…

Updates on the shabby Chic Frame Project

Over the weekend Will added several coats of pink paint to the frame.  It was leftover paint from Bella’s bedroom at our old house so it matches the bedding (and was free!)

Will got a thin board and sanded it and painted it the same color as Bella’s bedroom walls and mounted it where the picture used to be (without the glass). So when the frame is mounted it looks like a floating frame but in actuality we’ll be able to change out the design later on without having to repaint the walls.

Last night William hung the frame. It is so perfect, he did such a fine job. 

I don’t know yet what will go in the frame, probably some type of vinyl letters or decals. I’m loving a set that I found on Etsy that says “Once Upon A Time” and Will likes some Parisian decals on Pottery Barn Kids, so we’ll see. 

 

 

   

Bella loves it! What little girl wouldn’t love her own super-girly fairy princess room!