A blog entry!

I'm thinking I should start this thing back up.  Ethan is in kindergarten now and Blythe is in 2nd grade.  Brynn goes to preschool 2 mornings a week (yep....only TWO.MORNINGS.A.WEEK).  She's pretty good though.  Still takes a nap pretty regularly and if not, plays well by herself.  She's also a pretty awesome stroller rider and loves taking walks with me (where I walk and push her in the stroller and she lays back and smells her "bubba" (blanket), which is comforting to her and strange all at the same time).

This morning I had Ethan's teacher conference, which went well.  Love his teacher.  She and her husband both went to NC State, which obviously makes them cool from the get go. Ethan is doing fabulously.  He's a very smart little boy and I've been noticing a lot recently how quickly he picks things up.  He's good at writing and she has him working on writing whole sentences instead of just words, which he does very well at.  LOVE looking at his work and seeing how he sounds things out.  Apparently most of the class (including Ethan) are pretty adamant that "tree" starts with "ch".  You don't think about that until you say it out loud and well, it is hard to tell the difference between "tr" and "ch".  Also "dream"...they think it starts with "j".

I had Blythe's teacher conference last week and she too is doing well.  Better than I expected I guess.  Just always a little too chatty.  She's easily distracted which is why I thought she was just doing okay, but she appears to be a fast learner too as she picks it all up amongst her socializing and distractions.  Her teacher said for testing (like EOG tests and such) she'll just put Blythe in a corner where she can't see anyone else and then she'll be fine.  Ha.

As for activities, Ethan just finished baseball for the Fall season and will be moving on to basketball starting in January.  He'll do a bit of indoor soccer in the interim because he is always wanting to do something!  He's actually also playing in a little golf tournament this weekend (his first ever).  Blythe is swimming, swimming, swimming.  She swims year-round for the Titans.  Her group is all 7-8 year olds.  She's probably the slowest one in her group, but most of them are 8, so maybe she'll catch up.  For now she really likes her friends in the group, so she likes going to practice.  Having fun is what it's all about (or that's what I keep reminding myself of).  She also wants to do art, so I just signed her up for an art class as well.  Looks like we now have something every day of the week, so I'm officially a taxi driver.

Brynn can't be left out of activities, so she is in gymnastics once a week and now just started her first swimming lessons.  She can swim though and taught herself over the summer.  Now it's on to learning strokes.  She is an amazing student and sits still and listens.  As compared to Blythe who has always been overly social and easily distracted :)  However Brynn is 3, so you never know what you're going to get from her.

I still suck at taking pictures (keep telling myself when I get an iphone (January 29 I am eligible for an upgrade), then I will take more pictures.  Guess we will see.  Thank goodness I at least have an ipad and some bored children who occasionally take pictures themselves, so I can check my photo stream and see what I have.  So here it is...