Wednesday, November 24, 2010

From Swimming to Christmas Cards

that seems about right.  Missing of course was the start of school and and new blogging year (my third, who would have thought).  Fairly uneventful, Kyle doesn’t hate school, but he doesn’t necessarily like it either.  He teacher is young, but good and his life still revolves around sports.  His “uniform” consists of track pants and a hand me down Cardinals or baseball shirt from the kids up the street.  They are doing more math this year, which he likes, at times filling up an entire sheet of paper with different math facts and problems.  Grant is in his third year at ABC preschool and was so ready for kindergarten, but with an August birthday will have to wait one more year.  It is fun that he is attending with Lilly this year, although she had a rough start and I don’t think her older cousin was much help.  He does enjoy his extended day on Wednesday which is all boys.  I would just hate to see the bathroom after that class.  Speaking of bathroom, Ryan made an early effort towards potty training, amazing, given that his brothers were past the three year mark before we could convince them to even try, but in the end, he just wasn’t ready.  Other then that, he continues talking up a storm and following his brothers.  He has taken to calling Kyle “Bubby” and Grant “my best frien”.  He is so easy going in most respects, but for some reason the thought of standing still for a second to take a picture for our Christmas cards was completely out of the question as evidenced by attached pictures.  I tried once by myself in the park and lighting was perfect, but he was having none of it.  The second attempt was completely last minute, on our way to church, funky light and the boys in bright white socks, but with Jason’s help, I was able to get a few that I could photoshop together and our cards actually ended up being beautiful.  I was trying to find a way to link to the end product on Shutterfly, but couldn’t figure it how.  I guess I always love the end product, since I don’t really have professional pics done anymore, it is the one formal pic I have of them from year to year and always the cover of my photobooks (not that I am at all caught up on photobooks, but I will be at some point).