ky's first day

Today was Ky's first day of 4-year old Preschool. He was so excited! This is his first year at a new school, St. Paul Preschool, which is just down the road from our house. Mrs. Rop is his teacher this year and Mya's daughter, Riley, is also in class with Ky.

Last night he picked out his first day outfit. While he would have preferred to wear his soccer uniform (his first game is tonight!), he settled for something a little more up Mom's ally. He even made sure to have all his Silly Bands around his ankles!








Class is three hours long and when I picked him up I was ready for some stories. As I type (he knows I am writing about his day), he is telling me stories about what happened today with one of his new friends in the lunchroom. Unfortunately, Ky is not at school during lunch, so there goes that one! He did say that he had fun, ate a snack of orange juice, crackers and cupcake, read a book, played with toys, played with Riley and his "new" friend Brody, the one who apparently stuck out his tongue at Ky during the whole lunchroom incident, and got to pick a special book bag from the library at school to bring home.

Overall, great day for our little guy. Now his focus is on his soccer game tonight and figuring out just how many goals he is going to score.

Today is the first day of school for many kiddos. Our niece, Kali, our nephew, Taylor, and our niece, Jeongran, are high school freshman this year! While our nephew, Landyn, is starting his first day of Preschool today.

A few others have been at this school thing for a couple of weeks now. Our nephew, Riley, is a third grader this year. Raelin, our niece, continues to attend a Preschool in Arizona.

Finally, there is Ky, who starts his first day of 4-year old Preschool next Monday.

It has become a tradition in our family to bake a special brownie pencil cake to commemorate the first day of school. This year's picture is missing a few of the kiddos.....




Happy First (or 14th, or not quite yet) Day of School!

number 5

On Tuesday Koby lost his 5th tooth, second tooth in on the bottom right. A piece of corn on the cob helped loosen it when he ate dinner at his friend Michael's house Monday night and Koby worked his wiggle magic at school on Tuesday. He came home with the tooth taped to a piece of paper, very proud of his accomplishment.

Koby wrote a note to the Tooth fairy:

I wont to keep my toth and get the monay to. thank you

He claims to be starting a tooth collection. We'll see how that goes!

papas

We have spent some special times with our grandpas over the past few days. On Wednesday we celebrated Papa Briggs' 59th birthday. After some cake and ice cream, we took some crazy pictures together. Uncle Al and Koby are wearing some of Uncle Al's old glasses that they found up in his old bedroom.











On Friday, our Big Papa Chicago came into town. We went to lunch together and spent the afternoon swimming and practicing our cannon balls in the pool. In the evening, Ky and Pops spent some time jamming to tunes on the IPOD.







We sure do love our Papas!

first day of second grade

Today was Koby's first day of second grade. He woke up slightly nervous, but ready for the day ahead. He found a special surprise in his backpack this morning...an grey owl Webkin (he is very intersted in birds right now).








When I picked him up from school this afternoon, the first thing he said was, "Today was AWESOME!" He said the best thing about second grade is that you don't have to do a lot of work (let's see what he say's in a couple of months!) When I asked him about what he did today, I got the following:

1. I ate lunch with Paul
2. I did some Math with our second grade calendar that we have to do everyday
3. I read a book
4. We got all our supplies organized
5. Went to Music and found out Paul is taller than Mrs. DeYoung (the teacher)
6. Oh, and I don't have a crush anymore. At recess Abby broke up with me.

Wait a minute, rewind.... "What? Abby broke up with you? What does that mean?"

"It means she broke up with me"

(I am almost laughing out loud at this point) "What exactly did she say?"

"She walked up to me at recess and said 'I broke up with you' and then she walked away"

"What did you say when she said that?"

"I told her, 'Thank you!'"

I guess that crush was just so first grade. Remember, this is second grade now!

then and now

Time passes quickly. Things change. Our children grow. And often we don't realize all the changes that are taking place right before our eyes. This past weekend as I watched Koby and Ky play soccer with their cousins Kali and Taylor, I captured one such moment.

I wanted to get a group picture of the now 14, 7 and 4 year old. Thankfully they all obliged. As I gathered them together under our front trees I remembered that I had done this once before. So I snapped the shot and later went to investigate my photo archives. Sure enough. There it was. A moment in time 3 years ago with then 11, 3 and 1 year old cousins.



june 2007




july 2010

kilt klassic and fun run

Yesterday we participated in the 5K run and Fun Run in Caledonia. My nephew Taylor and I ran the 5K run. Taylor ran the race in just over 21 minutes, finishing first in his age division and won a gold medal. I finished in 25:03 and took second in my age division, bringing home a silver medal!










Koby also participated in the running festivities by doing the Fun Run for the very first time. He ran the 75m, 100m, and 200m sprints, taking first place in ALL THREE races!








He was whipped after those events, but we encouraged him to try the mile run (despite the fact that he has never just ran a mile). Taylor offered to run it with Koby, despite having just finished his 5K run, to help him pace himself and to encourage him along the way. Koby got a side cramp into the second of four laps, but pushed through it and finished his first mile run! We were so proud of him!