Football

I know it's only June, but football sign-ups were today. Jeff took Ryan over to sign up. They weighed his skinny butt and said he should have played down a team last year b/c of his low weight! He SHOULD have been on the younger team where we begged them to put him since he only missed the cut-off by two days. They didn't weigh him at all last year. It just makes me grumble and growl to think about it. He could have had a great season but for their mistake. Or, he very possibly could have had an equally bad season... but it definitely could not have been worse. I guess it wasn't too horribly awful, in his opinion, b/c he wants to do it again.

Practices start July 28! Jeff is mad at me for scheduling a vacation in August. He doesn't want Ryan to miss a week of practices. With pre-season, regular season, and play-offs, we'll have three months of football. I doubt one missed week will hurt him.

Middle school soccer starts sometime in August for Adam. Evan will be playing rec league soccer starting in September. Jeff even asked me if we should let Matthew play this year. They do have teams for his age. Right now, it's just calm enough for me to think that might be a good idea. I know Matthew would love it. Somebody talk me out of it!

We still have a month of doing nothing to get us good and bored before the craziness starts. :D

School's Out

Wow - It's hot outside. I guess it seems like it's always freezing, raining, or burning hot here, but that's b/c I only comment on the weather when it's extreme. And it's extremely hot this week. I hate the outdoors with all it's bugs anyway. Matthew got stung by a yellow jacket earlier this week. We found the nest and sprayed it but I'm still scared to cut the grass. LOL

We haven't been doing much schoolwork lately. We're officially on summer vacation until the middle of July. We're getting ready for a visit to my parents house in South Carolina and then we'll have a week of Bible school. After that we're going to work on finishing up our spelling and history books before we go on vacation to Tennessee in August. After vacation, we'll start our 6th (!!) year of homeschooling.

Even though we're not officially doing school, the boys have been reading like crazy. We joined the summer reading program at the library and the boys are determined to win tickets to Camden Park. The more they read, the more raffle tickets they can put in the drawing. The Camden Park drawing is going to be full of my boys' tickets so if you're playing at the Milton library, you may as well enter one of those bug toy or book drawings instead. {wink}

The Next Tony Hawk

How to ride a "boardskate" - by Matthew, brand new three year old and rider of Daddy's old skateboard (he swears it's faded red, NOT pink).

First, give it a shove.

Then, you chase it until...

... you can jump on!

Try not to fall off!

Cause you might get a boo-boo... and Mommy is running out of Spider-Man Band-Aids.

It's Raining

It's raining.... and I don't care!! There will be no more huddling under umbrellas to watch soccer this season. Soccer is officially over. Evan and Adam's teams were both undefeated - not so much b/c my kids are super stars (though they are), but because they had good teams and good coaches. Ryan's team didn't do too badly either. They won more than they lost. :)

Yesterday, we spent the morning at the sprayground getting wet and the afternoon in the house hiding from the rain. Crazy, I know. We managed to do some science, spelling, language, and math during those rainy hours. Today we've done science, history, spelling, and math. Rain is a homeschooler's friend. LOL

Matthew can ride a bike!! He just turned three - really, it was two weeks ago! He started riding a tricycle at a neighbor's house and was pedaling better than Evan! So we got out the little bike (with training wheels) and he's riding it like he's been riding for years. None of my other kids ever mastered pedaling so easily! I remember exhaustive lessons where I constantly reminded them to push with their feet and steer at the same time. It never occurred to me to teach my 3yo yet and now I don't have to! :)