Catching Up

I am playing catch up with everything lately, my days are filled to the brim and it is just enough to live it, sometimes I don't have time to document it for my 1-2 readers, ha!  Jacob has swim lessons and baseball in full swing, three games this week alone!  Gwyn is doing gymnastics, swim lessons and tball, and little Annie is doing swim lessons and attending everything of her siblings with a smile on her face!  I took the girls to the park this week and met a friend from church, the weather has been unbelievable here in Houston, sunny and cool, perfect.  We are usually sweating to death already!

My friend Julie gave us a bike for Gwyn with no training wheels.  Gwyn was begging all week for Brian to teach her how to ride her bike without training wheels for the first time.  After 45 minutes of back breaking holding by Brian (who fully expected it to go just as Jacob did with one push and he was riding by himself!) we are just where we started and are still riding with training wheels.

Here is a video:
My mom visited briefly during her sister's trip to San Antonio, we were able to have dinner with everyone, the kids loved seeing Susie.  My Dad is in town now for a week and is able to catch 3 of Jacob's games and 2 of Gwyn's games.  We also took Gwyn to see a friend of ours play softball, so she kind of sees what she will be doing next year since tball is so much different.  It was quite fun, Jacob is a hit with the girls in his class...they were all like, "Jacob came to watch us???"

The girls and I had a night out, complete with frozen yogurt, pizza, and a trip to the American Girl doll store where Gwyn got her dolls ears pierced (like hers) and Annie picked out an outfit for her Bitty Baby as a reward for not wetting the bed for 2 full weeks!!  Whooo hooo, we are now at 3 weeks!  They had a great time and loved some girl time that was just for them.

 Gwyn showing off her dolls earrings:

 This was such a cute picture, too bad the sun was just a little too bright on Gwyn's face.

 Brian took Jacob and two of his friends to the Astros game where Jacob made the Jumbo tron for the second time in two months...he says he is famous now!

Here is one zoomed in a bit more:

Jacob with his buddies in about the 3rd row!

 Orbit made a stop at their seats!

I love that Annie and Jacob are buddies, I caught them watching TV together:

Little Annie fell asleep on my piles of clean laundry, so sweet, she is still my little snorer!

 She was reading to her baby outside:

Love this sweet girl!

Oh wow, this one freaked me out a bit.  I got some sticker books for the kids to make faces...Annie's are very interesting and will probably give me nightmares for weeks:

 Jacob's artwork, learning about the parts of a flower:

Gwyn made this watercolor flower, so cute!

Jacob lost his 4th tooth, now he has lost his two front upper and bottom teeth...the tooth fairy brought him 5 sticker packs for his baseball book and two gold $1 coins...he was pretty happy with his loot:

Here is my sweet new boy's toothless smile:

Here are some of the flowers we planted this week, and thanks to my Dad watering them they aren't dead yet:

Funny things the kids said this week:
Annie:  Claire doesn't know my name, she calls me stinky sock.
Gwyn:  Mommy, it is a little more than a little chilly, I need a coat.
Gwyn:  You aren't going to that hot lava and fire place, right?  (Apparently, Jacob and Brian had a conversation about the other place than Heaven and he told Gwyn and Gwyn told Annie.)
Jacob (while we were planting flowers in pots outside):  These are just going to die since we won't water them.
Me to Gwyn:  The good news is that I fixed the TV in the playroom.
Gwyn:  I know some other good news.  We are going to eat frozen yogurt with Avery.
Jacob (while reading a home reader):  This is only a 17, I'm on level 20.  Look at this, this author gave away the whole store on the first page.  What is this?  This word is bolded and there isn't even a glossary.  (Apparently, him reading this book was a waste of his time since he was so past that level, ha!)  Maybe he'll be a book critic, ha!

Funnies thing in a very long time.  Jacob was out of school today and the girls were in school, so we had a rare day together.  I took him to Target and he brought $22 to buy a new Wii game.  He was checking out and it was $21.64.  He gave the checkout guy $21.  I told him to give him the other $1 and he will give him change back.  The guy was handing Jacob his change back and had his hand in a fist, expecting Jacob to open his hand and he would drop the change in.  Jacob thought he was fist pumping him, so he gave him a fist pump.  Hilarious!!  LOVE THAT KID!

Time is Flying By!

Not too much to say this week, we've been crazy busy.  We are loving life, but time is flying by!

Sweet little Annie Jaye, she loves her sweaters and I'm sure I must look like an odd mom who sends her to preschool in a sweater even on hot days...she loves to wear them and wears them every single day.  She is my little goofy kid, she is so funny and loves to smile:)

 Sweet little Gwyn now wants her hair to be braided while it is wet and then undo it so that her hair gets a little curl in it (poor thing will have to learn to live with straight fine hair just like me!).  I've promised to try out sponge rollers on her one night, I just haven't managed to remember to look for them at Target yet.  I remember my mom rolling my hair at night with it wet and waking the next morning to curly sue hair!

Sweet girl is loving tball, especially loves that the whole family goes to watch her.  Jacob of course is all serious from the side lines and is yelling at her in this picture to stand on 3rd base, not next to it.  He was so afraid someone was going to throw her out (as if the other team of 4-5 yr olds could manage to throw and catch a ball).  Ha!

 A friend of mine and I took our 5 year olds to the high school dance teams spring show this weekend.  It was 2 hours, but was so fun, Gwyn loved it!

 Jacob had two bad bounces while playing pitcher.  One got his eye and the other got his chin.  I taught him to say when someone asked him what happened "You should see the other guy."  It was so funny watching him say it, he practiced and practiced it and then said this tough statement with a big grin on his face, ha!

 Spring pictures for Jacob, I LOVE this toothless little boy:)

 I'm loving the artwork Annie is coming home with:

 Loved Jacob's writing about what love is..."Love is for a lot of people it is for my mom and dad and my techre (teacher) Miss Ramey and my gandparns (grandparents) and evrybutey (everybody).

Here are a couple of videos of the diving work the kids are doing in swim lessons...we need a lot of work!





Little Annie singing in the car:

Easter in Gruene, Texas

What an awesome weekend we had in Gruene, Texas with two other families over Easter.  Our three families had split a river house on the Guadalupe river that we purchased as an auction item at Gwyn's school.  There were 6 adults and 9 kids, it was an amazing house right on the river.  We literally walked down to the river, we were able to see deer, ride on inner tubes...the cold water didn't bother anyone except the adults!  The location is so close to everything, 20 min to San Antonio, 20 min to San Marcos...we did so much in our short time and will definitely be trying to go back soon!  Here are some pictures of the kids in the water behind the house, our walkway lead right out to a rocky area which was perfect for the kids to climb around on, and then the water opened up into a smooth swimming area:

A few videos of the kids (including Brian), floating down the river...I realize how boring these videos may be, but the kids loved it:


Gwyn and Brian:

Annie liked going down with Brian:

Gwyn finally got brave and went down with a friend and then down by herself:
Annie wanted to go out with her Daddy:

While we were there we went to see the Natural Bridge Caverns, what is funny is that it was so close to the river house, and Jacob had picked up this pamphlet on these caverns over a year ago when we went to Sea World in San Antonio, so he was super excited:

 We had our Easter egg hunt a day early, here are the Dads bringing their little kids down for the hunt:

 We told them no hunt until we got a picture with them all smiling...have you ever seen such perfect smiles all at the same time on all the boys faces??

 Picture with their loot:

 We found a church on Sunday, got the kids dressed up and went for an early service followed by lunch at the Gristmill right on the river:

 All 9 munchkins...3 first graders, 4 pre-kers, and 2 three year olds:

Family photo:

Before we left, I went to Annie's Easter party at school.  I was planning to go to Annie's party  for 30 minutes and then Gwyn's party for the last 30 minutes.  I got the times wrong and when I showed up to Gwyn's the party was already over...I felt horrible, but thankfully (I guess) she couldn't have cared less. Annie had a good time for her hunt, but didn't want to get knocked over so she just sat back and got absolutely no eggs in her basket.  She came home with 10 so her teacher must have evened them up:

 Sweet Annie Jaye:

 Look at this silly goose getting all giddy around Atticus!

 I caught Gwyn out on the playground when I was leaving, she yelled "You missed my party, MOM!"

 Another mom sent me this cute picture of Gwyn at her party: