New School Year 2011

Of course we all knew this day would come...The end of summer and the beginning of a wonderful new start to a school year. Cmon, I am trying to stay positive here. I imagined it would go like this...Maddie would be so excited she wouldn't be able to sleep the night before and Aidan would be filled with anxiety. Like all kids do, they surprise us! Maddie woke up and was just so terrified of her 1st day of 4th grade that she thought she would puke. She ate one bite of her sausage and refused to eat a bite of french toast. Aidan was as happy and easygoing as ever. You wouldn't think a nervous bone in his body. I had been dreading this day because my babies are growing up so quickly. This would be my 1st year without a child at home with me on my days off. My "little helper" would be no more. It will be quiet and lonely and way too much time to clean. All the things I longed for when he was with me I am now getting and regretting I ever hoped for them to "hurry up and get here." Sometimes it is just so unfair. They both hopped on the bus and I hoped they didn't see my tears. The bus was late dropping them off and I heard the brakes squeaking and ran to the garage to see them off. They were both running towards the house with big smiles on their faces. Maddie said "I love my teacher, Ms Bailey" I had to pry to get anything out of Aidan, but he did admit it was a good day. We went through the backpacks and I noticed right away they didn't eat their lunches, or much of them anyway which makes me angry b/c its a time issue! We waited til Daddy got home from work and ate a nice dinner of chicken chili together and talked about our "day."

Summer Begins!

Ahhh summer, just the sound of it makes me smile and feel warm inside. Some of our best childhood memories happen in the summertime. Ethan and the kids had their last day of school a few days ago. Maddie isn't so sad this year she says though "Mr Wilkinson has been her favorite teacher." She worked on her little gift certs the last few days of school writing something special for each teacher whether it was PE or Art. She is one thoughtful young girl. So thoughtful in fact that she asked me to write the same thing to a teacher as I did last year because as Maddie put it "I want her to cry again when she reads the note." Well Maddie wrote her own note and this teacher cried:) Maddie was pleased.
Aidan is not upset in the least that school is over with for some time. Thats not to say he won't miss Mrs Hauschild, she was a patient and kind and nurturing teacher for him. She got him a scholarship for summer school starting in July and goes til early Aug. Its just a few hours a day, Monday-TH.
Aidan has been having great fun with his neighbor buddy, CJ. CJ comes over and they play "crash up cars" and "war" with water guns/marshmallow guns. He is also doing T-ball right now and the funniest thing happened on the first game he played. Aidan is a total "watcher" so while he was playing 1st base he was listening to the opponents coach talk to the runner on 1st. Aidan was shaking his head so intently listening like this coach was talking to him! When the batter his the ball, the 1st baseman took off running...and so did Aidan! The runner at 1st was able to make it all the way home before the ball came near the plate...and so did Aidan!!! Myself, my Mom and EThan were laughing so hard we had tears coming out of our eyes. Later the next day we had a talk with Aidan about playing offense and defense:)
Maddie just finished Cheer for the season. They had a fabulous record. The State Cheer Competition took place the day after school got out and they placed 2nd!!! Maddie loves cheer to say the least. She practices her toe touch, pike and herkie jumps EVERY day! She wants to try out for Elite Cheer in August and we think she may just have a chance to make it.
So now we have a 4th grader and a 1st grader in the household...the years just keep flyin by...

Funny Kids

I know I haven't blogged in awhile and its not b/c I haven't wanted to, but somehow real life just gets in the way. A couple things that were really cute happened these past few days. (though cute things happen EVERY day)
March is reading month at school and it is Monday morning and a really BIG day for Maddie as she is getting a kitten tonight! We were in the process of adopting for almost 3 weeks and Maddie has been so patient. So I go in to wake up Peanut (b/c of the time change it still has screwed up the kids schedules) and I say "its read a word day at school." "I know" says Maddie. "Well what word would you like to be today?" "Moody" says Maddie. I was surprised by this b/c of the kitten thing. I figured she would pick Excited or something like that. "No, I want moody." "OK" I say. I wrote the word out and pinned it onto her shirt and she asks me "Mom, what does moody mean?" OMG, I about died but explained it means one minute you are happy and the next minute sad...on and on. She then said to me "I want excited as my word." Ha Ha.
Aidan was playing up in his room and got into his books/magazines and found a flyer for the Christmas Toys R Us wish book. He brings it to Daddy and says "there are some things in here that Santa forgot to bring me." It was so cute.
Because Maddie got a kitten (which she paid for) Aidan has been promised a quad this spring/summer. It is all he is talking about!