My Delicate Amgel

Here is a picture of Mikaela's BRAND NEW pants after her 1st day of wear! Lol She loves to run & play and of course fall down when she is outside playing. I often ask myself How Did "I" of-all-people Get a Tomboy For a Daughter? Lol

Early retirement for soccer?

Last night as I was putting the kids to bed, Mikaela started crying and saying she doesn't want to play soccer anymore! Huh? She's AWESOME - she just HAS to play. lol I asked her why and she says she doesn't know, she might want to do art, drawing. I told her she has to at least go to the 1st practice. My (and Kevin's) sneaking suspicion is that she doesn't want to be on a team by herself. Devin and her have played the last 3 seasons together on a Pee-Wee league but now that they are about to turn 8 - the teams are separated by gender.

They do do everything together from the moment they wake up to the moment they go to sleep so I can see how the adjustment to a separate team would be a big step for her but it is something she is going to have to adjust to soon. Devin is fine with it. He has become the more independent twin. He tried karate on his own, he is still in BoyScouts and he asked if he could still play soccer if Mikaela didn't.

Sign-ups are in February so I'll update on this subject then!

Birthday Party Plans

Well, we are planned up, deposit paid for the EIGHTH birthday party. The kids have decided they want to do laser tag this year! They did it last summer on a fieldtrip and had a blast.

My question is - when did these birthday parties become so daggone expensive? lol Thank goodness we only have to do one a year for now! I'm not looking forward to when they want to have separate birthday parties.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Where does the time go? I hadn't realized I haven't updated this blog in FOREVER. I must set a reminder or something for myself to post more often.

Last Friday was Devin's Boyscouts Space Derby. He and Kevin had to make his space ship and then he raced it against the other boys in his troop. He placed FIRST for his den (2nd graders) and SECOND overall (1st-5th graders)! He got a trophy for each placement and he was SO excited. Last year he didn't place - he just got a ribbon for participating so I was very happy for him!

Can you believe Devin & Mikaela are getting ready to turn 8??? They have already decided they want to do Laser Tag for their birthday party so I have to go check out a site and put a deposit down SOON!