My little boy is off on his second week of Kindergarten. Hard to believe! He’s really loving it. Andrew’s young heart thrives on calendars and schedules and charts. He starts each day looking at the calendar and figuring out what day it is and how many days until some event in the future. Now that [...]
Back when it was summer. When our lazy days were spent lallygagging from one activity to the next, Andrew and Sylvia took swimming lessons at the Monona pool. Each morning at 10am, we drove over to Jessica, Eli, and Celia’s house and then walked together to the pool. Eli and Andrew had class in the [...]
On August 19, we registered Andrew for kindergarten. He was pretty stoked! Here we are just outside his school taking a group shot before heading in. My big guy requesting his folder of information for KG! Registration was mostly me filling out forms and turning them in while the kids colored and watched a movie. [...]
I picked up Andrew at 1:45 from his first day of Kindergarten. They have short days today and tomorrow. He came out of school full of smiles. My young guy doesn’t tend to be too forthcoming with details about his life, but he did tell me that he made a friend (although he wasn’t sure [...]
This morning, Bryan and I walked our now-five-year-old baby boy to his first day of Kindergarten. He’s been sooooo excited! When Andrew is happily anticipating something, he gambols about like a long-legged foal. There’s been a lot of gamboling at 4310 Hegg Ave. recently:) Last night, after I tucked him in bed, he came out [...]
It’s a kinda big day in my world today. For example: Andrew starts Kindergarten tomorrow Three years ago today my mom died. After watching and helping her for three weeks, this was the the first day she was gone. And while this day and this time of year feels a lot less bad than it [...]
Around here, it seems that birthdays stretch for days if not weeks. And that’s fine with me, because I like parties! Especially with family:) So here are some images from Tuesday, June 22. More are available in the gallery. We were hanging out at home, when the doorbell rang, and what should be there but [...]
Sprinklers are such a wonderful summertime toy! For his birthday, Bryan’s parents got a fun water sprinkler with crazy, wiggly heads. Andrew had such fun playing in it, and for a couple days, he amazed us with his sprinkler performances. Some included props like Frisbees. He wanted to be rated after his sprinkler runs, and [...]
Last weekend, Andrew had a fun-filled birthday party at Tenney Park beach. He’d enjoyed his fourth birthday party so much, that he requested a repeat. So we had a Godzilla cake (constructed and decorated by Granny and Andrew), a T. Rex pinata (in lieu of Godzilla), swimming, relaxing beach fun with family, and this year…an [...]
365 days ago, I wrote the following post as Andrew was on the eve of his fourth birthday. Right now, my clock says June 21, 11:58pm. In a few more moments, my little guy will be five. An energetic, focused, exuberant Five. When you’re raising kids, the hours do sometimes gooo soooo sloooow, but the [...]
