All Done / First Pets!!!

Well, this was our first week of summer vacation. Everything we are involved in suddenly came to an end all at once last week. We are now done with preschool, Awanas, BSF, T-Ball, small group, and MOPS for the summer. That is six things that came to a screeching halt all in one week! Alec sin't just done with Preschool for the summer...he is a preschool graduate, and will be starting Kindergarten in the fall. I can't believe how fast he is growing up! It did make me a little teary that he is not going to be a preschooler anymore. I would have planned some fun things for us to do this week, but I have been feeling really nauseated from the pregnancy. So, we just kind of stayed around the house for the most part and let the kids swim in their little blow up pool. Alec had a play day with his friend Jack on Tuesday and got to swim in his "real pool". We also had Alec's T-Ball party on Wednesday at Chuck E Cheese which was fun.



Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that we got our first pets a couple weeks ago. At the last MOPS meeting of the year I was given a bowl of goldfish as a gift for being a discussion group leader. Some of the other DGL's weren't as interested, so I ended up with a few extra. We started out with 7 and named them the seven dwarfs ...and now two weeks later we are down to three (the three musketeers) actually, Alec gave them names....Stripey, TJ, and Heart Tail. I kind of only wanted 3 anyway. If any of you have some fish advise let me know... I've been cleaning out the fish bowl every two days (putting in tap water conditioner), and feeding them twice a day. These last three have been doing really good, and seem super spunky. We don't want anymore fish deaths on our hands! Anyway...here are some pics.

The whole fam at Alec's preschool graduation!

Alec with his whole class...he really isn't the shortest boy in the class...my theory is they just put him in the front with the girls because he's so cute :) Just kiddin!

Ava, Sophia, and Alec at the Awana's award ceremony.

The day I brought home "The Seven Dwarfs"



Alec on his first motorcycle ride with our neighbor accross the street. I was a little nervous, but he took it super slow...Alec said he wanted to go faster!

Three is the magic number....

Well....it just hit me that I haven't blogged about the fact that I am pregnant! This is by no means an announcement because half the world already knows. I am not good at keeping in things I am excited about and have already posted it on facebook! We are very excited...we had been trying for this one for almost a year! We just knew that we were not done having kids.


We knew at the start of our marriage that we wanted 3 kids. Growing up, I always wanted 4 because I was the baby of 4 kids, and Eriik wanted 2 because he comes from a fam of 2 boys, and so we easily compromised on 3, and never went back! Besides it's kind of fun because 3 is my favorite number for many reasons..."a three fold cord is not quickly broken" Eccl. 4:12, the trinity, we got married in 2003, the title of the post "Three is a magic number" is a song from a musical I was in while in college. So, anyway...three kids just fits right into all that! Now...of course disregard all of this if we end up having twins...we would still be thrilled (and a little scared)! In fact, that would mean I win, and get my four kids!




You know I always have to put a picture with my blogs, I ended up finding an old picture of Alec and Ava. They were playing with this ball that splits in the middle...this is what I found when I walked in the room...too funny! I thought it was appropriate for this post :)

T-Ball fun...

Well, we have been really busy lately with Alec's T-ball practices and games. He has games twice a week and a practice once a week. He is in T-Ball with mostly the same kids he was in Soccer with (most are kids from his preschool class). I think I have been enjoying it as much (if not more) than Alec...I think it's more fun than watching his soccer last fall. Alec isn't super agressive just yet, so he really didn't get an opportunity to do as much in soccer, but in T-ball at least they all get a moment to shine. It's super cute and sometimes funny to watch. I think it was his second game that he got a little confused after hitting the ball and ran the wrong direction towards third base...so cute, we were all yelling "wrong way Alec...turn around". His very first game he actually did really great and caught the ball a couple times and tagged some kids out!

He was the catcher in last nights game, which means the poor little guy didn't have much to do considering it's not a pitch game!

At the end of the game...everyone putting a hand in...notice Alec wasn't about to let go of his snack!

Alec in mid throw.

The coach giving a pep talk before the game.





I finally got a video clip last week...his Nanny, Poppy and MeMa have been wanting to see him in action...I spent a long time waiting for it to download, and it failed...it may have been too long, I will try again later.

A Happy Mother's Day!

So, it was a good Mother's Day! I woke up at my usual time and Eriik made us all breakfast and he and the kids gave me this really cute plate from the Mud Hut with the kids handprints on it. I have to admit that I did give him a hint or two about wanting something from the Mudhut that the kids have helped with, but I thought he would have just have the kids do their handprints and have one of the workers do the artwork...turns out he did the whole thing with only the kids help...it was so sweet and special, he even let Alec and Ava paint on some of the flowers that he drew. Alec and Ava were so sweet today giving me lots of hugs and kisses. Ava was a little confused at one point and said "Happy Birthday Mommy!!!"
During late service today I had to (or should I say "got to") teach in "Kinderville"so I didn't hear the Mother's Day service (because I didn't make it to the early service), but it is always so much fun being with those sweet little 4, 5 and 6 year olds. After that, we decided to stay for the church Mother's Day picnic...I was a little hesitant about it at first, because I was thinking..."really, how relaxing can it be to hang around in the church gym, eating take out with tons of kids running all over!" But it was really nice, and fun. A lot of our friends were there, and the kids got to play in the bounce houses outside, and all us ladies made nice beaded necklaces. I had a surprisingly fun time! Then our fam went out to Corinos to eat tonight, so I didn't have to lift a finger all day...it was fabulous!!!
I also want to send a little shout out to my wonderful Mom...she has always been there for me, and has helped to shape the way I mother my kids. She's still a person that I can run to....when I'm excited or upset about something she is the second person I tell (after Eriik). Although I love our talks on the phone, I wish she lived closer, so that we could have spent this day together...Love you Mom! Happy Mother's Day to all you moms out there!!!

Ava is wearing a little dress that her Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Steph bought her last summer...so sweet!