Kindergarten

Well, we’ve gotten a week under our belt.  It’s been a good week.  School started on August 23.  We missed the bus on the first day, but it really wasn’t our fault.  The schedule said our pick up time was 7:10 –7:25.  We were outside taking pictures at 7:01.  According to the bus driver she drove by three times, the last one at 7:00.  I don’t know how we missed the bus, but it was frustrating.  So we drove Noah to school that morning and all was well.  We haven’t missed it since.  He got green smiley faces on his daily conduct report each day.  He loves kindergarten.  He doesn’t even seem to mind getting up at 6:30 (I do).

On Friday night he wore his new Fighting Panther Club t-shirt to the football game.  He got to run from end zone to end zone during pre-game with the other kids.  He was so excited.  And our team won… Go Panthers!!!

Potty!!!!

Gabriel used the potty for the first time tonight.  Yay!!!  No pictures.  I just wanted to share the exciting news.

My Big Boy is Heading to Kindergarten

We met Noah’s Kindergarten teacher tonight.  Her name is Miss Thompson and she seemed very nice.  She was a Red Raider and this is her second year teaching.  Noah is very excited to be going to school, but he’s a little worried that he can only read little words.  I keep telling him that’s what kindergarten is for, but I guess he’ll figure that out.  He was a little concerned that there weren’t as many toys in kindergarten as there were at his last school.  I’m pretty sure that more than anything, Noah is looking forward to riding the bus to school.  He’s already got the bus rules memorized, and he told me today that those rules were the most important thing to know about going to kindergarten.  There were cars parked in the bus lane at school tonight, and he immediately commented that they should not be there.

I can’t believe I have a child in kindergarten.  Man, I’m getting old…

Happy Birthday Granny Pearl

Well, Granny Pearl had another birthday in July.  We made it up to Lawton to visit for the weekend.  She was in (mostly) good spirits.  We took Whitney with us to visit one day.  That was a fun trip with the three boys.  I love the looks on everyone’s faces in the group picture.  It is a very good representation of that day.

Gabriel enjoyed the car ride with the big boys.

I’m not sure what was going on in the back seat, but I’m sure Noah was teaching Whitney something VERY important.

Best Quote of the Day

Noah says, “Daddy, will you work us some more money so we can go to Beaches?”

Fiesta Texas 2010

Again, I’m a bit late, but I’ll finish up the vacation posts nonetheless.  We wrapped up our 4th of July holiday week with a trek to Fiesta Texas in San Antonio.  (Noah has been begging to go for a year now.)  Gigi and Grandpa were able to go with us, too, which made it all the more fun.

Grandpa even went on his first upside-down roller coaster ever.  Of course, I didn’t tell him it went upside down until AFTER we were already strapped in and there was no turning back.  You should have seen the picture of him in the middle of the ride….

The boys both took a spin on the teacups.  We were all smiles until the very end when Gabriel just about hurled.

We stayed all the way through the fireworks show they do at the end.  We had a blast — great way to end the vacation.

Upgraded Computer

For my birthday, Chris and the boys upgraded my computer.  I have to say, I knew my computer was slow, but I had no idea HOW slow.  It’s always nice to join the land of normal people.

Thanks boys!