Luke's First Soccer Game and Warmer Weather (Kind of...)

Look at this! I'm typing up another blog post and March isn't even over yet! I knew this is how it would be... Everything is always so slow early on in the year and then it all picks up and we're busy for the rest of the year. This weekend has been good, a little crazy, but good. Last weekend was the time change and it always seems to throw us all off. Everyone's grumpy, everyone needs sleep. And while I'm enjoying the extra time in the evenings, I still hate any change to routine.

Yesterday was Luke's first soccer game. He's joined the ABYSA group and is in the 6 year group (because, well, he turns six in a month.) They do it really well with this group and split everyone up into small groups, do a thirty minute practice session, then a 20-30 minute game where they just rotate the kids in and out. It keeps the littles entertained and active. In fact, Luke fell asleep in the car yesterday on the way home. Plus, it was FREEZING. The weather forecast had said it would be close to 50 which is really reasonable in my book, but I guess what I missed is that the wind would be whipping the whole time. We took a picnic and had lunch with my mom and dad at the field, but I thought we'd all be frozen popsicles by the end of it. Next weekend it's supposed to be almost 70 so I'm hoping the weather will cooperate more.

The weather was considerably better today, and we had a catch up day. I cleaned laundry and we were able to hang out with our neighbors this afternoon. Luke and Oakley are in the same class and are best buddies. They would practically live together if we'd let them. Oakley's little sister, Tesla, came along and all 4 played in the backyard while the mama's caught up. It was a lovely afternoon!

Next weekend, we're having our front deck replaced. I think that it must be original with the house and it's about to fall off the side of the mountain, so it needs to be done.  I just dread the huge amount of money it will cost. HA! It will look super nice and I'm excited to have a good place to hang out this summer. We've decided to keep this house for the long haul so we're slowly taking steps to get it where we want it to be.

We're gearing up for summer and I'm getting excited for the break. Luke will stay with my mom and dad three days a week and then I will switch my schedule to be off 2 days a week. I want to take them to the splash pad and the Nature Center and to the pool and maybe the zoo. I have ambitious thoughts so I hope I can keep up with it. I'm just looking forward to a break from the routine, not having to pack lunches in the morning and maybe sleeping in just a little bit longer. More fun stuff to come!

Yeah. That's how I really felt about it. 

March 2019

Wow, I really hope this isn't a pattern for me in 2019. I seem to only be updating this thing once a month. Although I guess there really isn't much to update on. I'm sure when the weather turns warm and we start doing more stuff, I'll have more to say.

Since our last post we've had 3 tummy bugs, lice, a fever that I thought was flu (but wasn't) and just more numerous things to make life more difficult. HA! It was never promised to be easy so I'm trying to just make it through. Today was also the time change so that brings along a ton more issues. It's 5:30 and no one wants supper and is still wanting to play for another hour or so.

In the time since I've written last, Charlie has given up her pacifier. Once again, this was much easier with her than it was with Luke. She had chewed on several of them so we threw them away and then we got down to the last paci. She lost it somewhere and I didn't try to hard to find it and just told her it was gone and she was like "oh, ok." and that was that. And she LOVED that paci, so I'm really relieved to be done with that and not have a huge struggle. It does mean that she has a harder time getting to sleep so we've pushed her bedtime back. She was going to bed at 6:00 which is SUPER early, but now we're starting our routine at 6:45 and trying to get to bed by 7:00. Which is still a decent hour.  We did find lice in her hair, again, yesterday. So that's been fun. 10 million loads of laundry later and some treatments in her hair and I hope that's been fixed.

Luke has been doing well in school... We go on Tuesday for his parent teacher conference. He's doing so well with his reading and words. It's amazing how far he's come since the beginning of the year. He woke up on Friday with a fever and was very lethargic. I felt certain that he had the flu, but one trip to the peds office and a flu test later it was negative. With some motrin and rest, he was pretty much back to normal by that afternoon. He's a smart little fella and I'm glad he's getting back to normal.

Next week starts soccer for him. They had some of the coaches come by his school and he announced he wanted to play. We've bought him some shin guards, and found some cleats. Next week when we go to our first game he gets his uniform so we're all excited about that.

Today's weather has just been magnificent. I'm ready for spring and am done with winter completely.  Currently, the kids are playing outside with Hannah and they're running with the dogs and just yelling in complete happiness. Let's get on with this and start the spring/summer.

Swingin' at church!

Post lice treatment yesterday

Luke picked some dandelions for me today!

They had literacy week at school and some of the older kids read to the kindergartners. 

Luke dressed up like  Harry Potter!