When he was about 7 months, old, Andrew’s first two teeth came in…his bottom two. Here’s a picture of him in January 2006. There were some sleepless nights associated with the arrival of those teeth (see a January 31, 2006 post here). By March 2006, those two bottom teeth were all grown in. Oh, what [...]
Andrew’s sixth birthday party was held (again) at Tenney Park Beach. Having a June birthday makes for such easy party planning! Pick a park, invite some family and friends, get a pinata and a cake, and voila – party:) After arriving, we set out the food, and of course, the beautiful castle cake. Andrew is [...]
Back in late June, oh, actually a month ago today, Bryan’s parents flew up to Madison to help us celebrate Andrew’s 6th birthday. As usual, at my request (Please, please, please!), Granny made Andrew’s birthday cake. Here, Sylvia helps Granny lightly apply sprinkles to the cupcakes:) LuAnn found a design for a castle cake in [...]
Andrew’s 6th birthday was on June 22nd. I can’t believe that my little guy is six!! Remember when he was zero? Or just one year old… A new Two There he’s Three. Four… Five! And now Six. For Bryan’s birthday in May, I had picked up some eclairs and croissants from Java Cat for breakfast. [...]
We’ve been doing swimming lessons at the Monona pool since the first day of summer vacation. Hours spend pool-side are some of my favorite of the year! Here’s a little show of Andrew jumping off the diving board. So amazing! Sylvia’s in the big pool now – Squirts A! Last year she was too young [...]
Wow, these posts are behind! Seems like the days of Andrew being in school were ages ago. We’re in full-on summer mode around here these days! On June 9, the day before the last day of school, Andrew requested that he walk himself to school. Our main point of concern is crossing Davies street, but [...]
On June 4, Andrew and Eli participated in Monona’s Sawyer Crossen Memorial Triathlon. Andrew had been excited about signing up, but the day before the event, he declared that he was not interested in participating. After some cajoling and light bribery, I’d about given up on him participating. But I asked him to pick up [...]
On a nice evening in early June, Andrew graduated from Kindergarten. I’ve got to say that at first blush, I wasn’t a big fan of the idea of Kindergarten graduation. Wouldn’t it be more appropriate, I thought, to have an ice cream party and say “Yay! You’ve made it through your first year!” But a [...]
Andrew and Sylvia are two years apart in age between February and June. And it just so happened, that Monona had a soccer skills class for 3-5 year olds this spring. Then it shockingly aligned so that both kids wanted to participate. Crazy. Eli and Celia joined us, and we enjoyed five nice evenings (Thursdays [...]
How is it that it’s been almost a month since I last posted? My focus turned to other things. I haven’t even written about our trip to visit grandparents in Wichita. Maybe soon… However, I’ve been jolted out of my non-blogging status by an incident this afternoon. I had some work to do in the [...]
