Our Week in Review

We started off the week pretty good. Rob was home! Our Labor Day "celebration" consisted of buying new shoes and clothes for mommy and the baby, playing outside, and grilling. It was a nice, relaxing day for us after having a week of craziness.

On Tuesday, Matthew had his second soccer practice. Rob said he went a little crazy so we're working on the focus issue. Anna and I went to the library while the boys were gone. It was nice to have only one child, especially since the check-out line was insane! Let me just say how nice self-checkout was at the libraries in San Jose!

Wednesday the boys had their first night of Tiny Trackers. Both were extremely excited, especially Ben, who got his book this year. Last year he went for the final two months and I didn't see the necessity of a book. Both already had their t-shirts from last year (thank you, Mommy, for buying big sizes!) We picked up the books on Sunday night and I'm so glad we did. The line to buy them on Wednesday was enormous. After putting Anna in the nursery, we were free to go to church. By ourselves. In the auditorium! We're taking a parenting class starting next week and it's so nice to have that freedom on Wed. nights.

Thursday we grocery shopped. We had two free shelves in the fridge, so it was time to refill. The kids were very well-behaved. We ran into some friends from church who invited us over for a cook-out the following night.

Friday the kids went to the Teddy Bear Picnic storytime at the library. Both boys got a teddy bear (I didn't register Anna) and had a ball. They have a room set up for babies so Anna and I played in there off and on. The boys listened to stories, made a craft, ate a snack, and danced. Well, Ben danced (i.e. bounced around to music) but Matthew hid behind a chair. I let Anna jump around with the kids during the music time and she had a ball too. We had a good time that evening with our friends and the kids had a blast running around and roasting marshmallows.

This morning, Matthew had his very first game. I shot out to a "fill-a-bag" yard sale and got Anna set for winter, along with finding snow boots for Matthew. Matthew's game went well and I think that they won. Matthew did well and aggressively played but when he was out of the game, he picked grass and layed around. He was very confused at first but I think he got the hang of what a game looks like. They had a soccer fest going on so afterwards the kids went through an inflatible caterpillar and Matthew picked up ducks.

Busy week! We started kindergarten with Matthew last week and he's doing great. He's doing just fine with Miquon Math and Explode the Code. His comment on the ETC book was: I love this book! It's so easy! Ben is doing some pages in the preschool Brain Quest book. He can now recognize two letters of the alphabet. :)

Rob likes his one seminary class right now. The other two online courses start up in two weeks. Hmmm....and Rob just took all three kids to Wal-Mart...time to relax and make some cards!