Been a While

I can't believe it's been over a month since I posted something. Other than daily stuff I can't think of much in the way of excitement that has happened. I will try to think of a few things and then write about a couple more recent things in a different post.

The kids have finished the school year. Tanner graduated from preschool at the end of May and Savannah and Ethan just finished July 2nd. That means in a few weeks (5 to be exact) Savannah is going to be in 5th grade, Ethan in 2nd, and Tanner will start Kindergarten. We got D track for year-round school which means they will start about the middle of Aug. while the rest of the school will start about July 20. We really lucked out this year with my request for this track. I'm happy with all of the teachers which is important, of course, but one of the big reasons I wanted this track was because my kids will have 4 weeks off from school 1 week after my due date. Other than being crazy with all the kids it should be a little better than having to shuttle kids to and from school, homework, set bedtimes, and most importantly, bring home viruses. Now if I can just get through the summer break without have a nervous breakdown.

I think this happened before I wrote last, actually, but I should mention the fact that we had the rough plumbing done downstairs. This included moving a drain pipe for the tub, getting all the water lines in for the bathroom, the toilet drain prepped, setting the bathtub in place, putting the water lines and drain pipes in for the bar sink on the opposite side of the house. Yeah, that was a LONG time ago and nothing else has progressed downstairs except for moving some stuff out. Ugh, I don't even want to mention that right now because I'll just get more frustrated and angry.

Savannah has been taking a tumbling class for about a year now. She has moved up a level recently since she can now do a back-handspring. She is now in a class that does competition which she has yet to do. Her biggest problem is fear. She totally has the body type for this kind of thing and if she would just have a little more confidence she could excel a little quicker. She enjoys it and enjoys it a little more since our neighbor girl is in the same class now.

The 3 older kids all had a dentist appt back in May. Savannah had her first cavity but the dentist said since it's in a tooth that she'll lose soon enough he didn't think it was worth filling. Lucky her! Ethan had 3 loose teeth and no cavities. Tanner had his first ever xrays that showed he had 2 cavities, both on the bottom, both on molars on either side of his mouth. So we made a return appt to have Tanner's cavities filled and to get Ethan's 3 loose teeth pulled since the adult teeth had already erupted. They both did extremely well getting numb although Tanner was very uptight through the whole thing. Tanner stayed numb for over 4 hours and he was not happy about that. Ethan was only numb for about 1.5 hours and with his teeth missing it looked like he was in a fight. I think it was because he lost only one tooth on the top. I forgot to take pictures right after...oh well.


I almost forgot about another May event. That is the annual school 5k. Usually the kids at school seem to spend a good amount of time out on the track getting in shape to run the race but not this year. It may have had something to do with all of the wet and cold weather we had and/or the teachers themselves but Savannah wasn't in as good of shape as before and she wasn't as excited about it either. Ethan just doesn't want to do it ever. Jon was in good shape and he was excited for it, I guess you could say. The day of the race Savannah's neighbor friend (who goes to a different school) decided to run it with her.
Jon did really well, coming in 2nd in his age group. Savannah didn't do so well but she blamed some of that on her friend who had never run a 5k before. It didn't matter too much since she (and anyone else who signed up) actually got a medal just for running at all. We thought how ironic it was that all the other years she would try soooo hard and never got anything except a lousy t-shirt and this year she wasn't nearly as excited, prepared, or fast and she got a medal. We spent some time at the carnival kind of stuff after the race and then got dinner and went home.

I think that about does it for May and the early part of June and I'll write about specific things in another post.