Private Kindergarten/Lex Reading

Caleb started back to school this week. I am actually having him do a private Kindergarten at his daycare and then public Kindergarten next year since his birthday is so late. But he was pretty excited to be in class with kids he knows and though he will miss Ms. Epperson, is excited to meet his new teacher. This morning before school, I asked if he had any homework yet. He informs me yes and I was supposed to sign his notebook everyday. What notebook? Well apparently his new backpack had a thick black folder with all kinds of good information and homework to do every night. The teacher must have been very disappointed in our progress. Haha! Well we had some catching up to do. I guess this will get me prepared for public school next year too. Lexie is still in her same class, and her vocabulary continues to grow. She is saying all kinds of new words and demands like "mere" for come here, "night night", "eat", "c-bar" for cereal bar, and "Stop" or "don't".

Lexie is always reading, we found her hiding in the kitchen reading to herself. She had gotten dressed up for the occasional too with her shiny hat. Lol!

She is not shy either, she likes to say "hi" to most people she passes wherever we go. It's fun watching her interact more with the world around her.

Caleb and Lex enjoy dressing up with some of Caleb's new birthday presents! Greg woke up to these two hovering over him. Haha!

Our 7th Anniversary and Caleb's 5th Birthday

Today is our 7th Anniversary and Caleb's 5th Birthday. What a special day for us! Yesterday we got tickets to see the Circus at our church for one of Caleb's gifts. 

They did an awesome job, it was a really neat show. Caleb even was inspired to get a clown nose to add to his funny personality. My Mom came up to help us celebrate since she didn't get to come to Caleb's party last week. She kept the kids for us last night so Greg and I could go on a date and celebrate our Anniversary. Caleb was happy to hang with Gigi. They worked on some of his Trio block and Lego projects he got for his birthday. He is really into building things recently, and is so cute working for literally hours reading step by step instructions to build projects. I am very impressed. Maybe he'll be an engineer like his uncle Rhett.

Caleb's 5th Birthday Party

Caleb wanted a Star War themed birthday party this year. He was particularly fond of Yoda and requested a Yoda cake. I couldn't imagine having an ugly green face as a birthday cake, so we compromised and had Yoda put on a Star Wars cake.

My friend Kristen from work and her neighbor made an awesome cake for us. Caleb was very excited. We had the party at a local gymnastics place and the kids had lots of fun.

They jumped on trampolines, played games on the gym floor, and even swung from a rope into a pit of soft blocks.

 I really wanted to try that, but refrained. Not so with Greg, he used the excuse that he had to get in with Lexie.

Just before cake and ice cream, we were visited by Chewbacca who handed out light sabers to everyone.

I was worried about the boys getting too rowdy with the sabers, but it was the girls who had the sword fight. Lol!

 Caleb had such an awesome time, and received lots of great gifts. Thanks everyone for making his big day special!

Museum/Taekwondo

We were sitting at the dinner table last night talking to Caleb about his day and he continued to change his topics quickly, but he had us hesitating over the question " why can't boys carry babies in their tummies?" I let Greg answer that one. That's my random man.

 Today I took the kids to the museum. Caleb wanted to see a movie at the Imax. We decided on the Wild Ocean. Lexie entertained herself by putting her milk in one cup holder, and her bag of cheerios in the other. And she continued to grab one and put it back and repeat with the other, with the occasional clapping and "yeah" when the screen would fade out and then in between scenes.

Then we headed to the dinosaur gallery, or "saurs" as Lexie would say. She would "wow" all the different exhibit displays;they both enjoyed the big dinosaur footprint.

We had some outside time with the water dams. But it was too hot to stay out there long.

Caleb loved the old communicating tube of the B-36 Peacemaker bomber and Lexie's favorite was the giant Light Brite exhibit.

Baby talk

When I picked the kids up from daycare today, Lex was in a "talkative" mood. She would say "Bubba" then speak gibberish as if she was telling him something important. Caleb responded rather arrogantly "Lexie, I don't understand baby talk. Ask Momma." Lex wasn't deterred, she looked at me then said "Momma" and told me her important story in gibberish instead. I just agreed whole heartedly with her. Lol! Don't let Caleb fool you though, because he loves his Lexie.

 I found him one morning reading a story to her while she was waiting for us to come get her up. Here is the pair dressed up for western day at school.

Happy Birthday Greg!

We celebrated Greg's 35th birthday today. It was my day off so, after swim lessons, the kids and I headed to Greg's office to take him to lunch. We stopped and got him a plant for his new office along with a bunch of happy birthday balloons per the kids request. Gigi had a huge chocolate cake delivered to Greg's office, so I was off the hook for baking. I did get a babysitter for the kids and took Greg out to eat at his favorite place, the Reata. We enjoyed a yummy dinner then headed to the movies. We had a wonderful time on our date. Happy Birthday Greg!