Go Team Dora!!

Belle had her first ever soccer practice this week. She did really well. Especially considering that she had been a sick mess the day before. She is on a team at the church where she goes to preschool. All the 4-5 yr old teams have cartoon names, like Veggie Tales or the Backyardigins. What are we? Team Dora!! There were a few groans coming from mostly the parents of the boys. =) And it's funny because there really are not a lot of girls on our team, only 3. I'm real curious to see if our shirts are pink or something. I say this because I distinctly remember seeing a girl in Walmart last year with a FMCC soccer shirt on that was pink.

Practicing her dribbling.




Devotion time with the coach's wife.


And of course had to keep Ethan occupied.


He would not let me take his pictures. Little stinker.


In other fun news. We made Angry Birds!! How awesome are these! The kids love them and Ethan even wanted to sleep with one tonight. I am however not letting the kids touch my favs, which are the black bird and the yellow bird.



Look Belle even made some!

My Little Reader

I thought I'd document how well Belle is doing with her reading. She's finished her first BOB book set and while at an Usborne Party I picked up this set of 15 books. We have enjoyed a few at the library, but got frustrated when the ones we wanted were never there. So it's nice to have our own collection. She's already on the 3rd book and we just got it Sunday.

She's doing great and loves reading by herself.

Updates

Nic made the comment on how I never update the blog since Facebook. It's the truth. So I thought I'd share some pictures. Truth is that I haven't even picked up the camera much lately.

I think I've pretty much consumed my computer time with either work or researching homeschool. Yes, I've completely lost my mind and we're going to homeschool Belle next year. Crazy, I know!! So I'm researching curriculum and what not.

No child labor laws in this house.




Belle went through a nudist phase for a couple weeks. Here she is working on a workbook and showing Ethan. I was hoping that some of the numbers would soak into Ethan's brain. Im trying really hard not to compare him to Belle at her age. But the good news is that Ethan is trying. He'll count 1,2,3,6,13. . =) And he did recognize 3 letters by sight the other day. I keep telling myself he's only 2.5, geez.



Belle starts soccer practice tomorrow. Stay tuned for cute soccer uniform pics. Belle got outfitted with shin guards and cleats and a soccer ball. Ethan would not stand for being left out. Nic had to take him to walmart so he could get his very own ball. They've been kicking it around the yard during this awesome weather we are having.







They finished the afternoon playing "drive-thru". Ethan ordered "chicky nuggets" and "fench fries".


In other news, Belle has been doing awesome with her reading. She's really coming along nicely. I'm super proud of her.

Do the **clap clap** Potty Dance!

I was excited to hear about the Potty Dance event at the Children's Museum. We don't see that commercial much because we don't have cable, but I know Brody knew the dance. And since Brody has needed a little extra push on the potty training issue, I figured it couldn't hurt. Ethan has even shown some interest here recently. I just thought it would be a fun event to take the kids too.

We had been getting really excited the week coming up to the dance (or maybe it was just me). We were practicing our potty dance and listening to Ralph's World music. I had never heard of his music til I looked him up. Some great stuff. I even downloaded some songs to play in the car. My favs are Animal Friends and The Great Outdoors. I can't get the songs out of my head. That and of course "do the **clap clap** potty dance".

Ethan of course got sick earlier this week. Just our luck. After not being sick most of the winter, it finally caught up with us. But I figured if Ethan couldn't go, Belle would love to go dance around. Well by the end of the week Belle had it. I thought the medicine was helping her, but she took a turn for the worse Friday night. But the good news was that Ethan was well enough to make the trip.

The museum was full of Pull-ups stuff. There were even free pull-ups. Yay!! Between Sara and I, I'm sure we've spent a small fortune on pull ups. So it was nice to get some freebies. Maybe I got a little too excited, because I wanted a spot close to the stage and we got there a little early. The concert was supposed to be at 11am and we got there at 10:30am. The boys got maracas, which they promptly started using as swords, and some inflatable guitars. We tried to occupy ourselves for awhile, but low and behold the concert wasn't going to start til 11:30. It was supposed to start at 11am. I couldn't imagine trying to occupy the boys for another half hour. Unfortunately the boys were done, or atleast Ethan was done, so we decided to just head out. It was a bummer, and kind of crappy considering they couldn't start on time. I mean, who makes 2 yr olds wait. =) We did catch some of the music as we strolled around the exhibits.





There were no picture of Ethan really in the concert area. He was glued to my hip.








The boys played with this constellation area for awhile in the Dora and Diego exhibit.


And what is a trip to the Children's museum without a ride on the carousel.






Its fun to see the looks of pure joy on the kids faces. They loved the carousel.


Oh and of course we didn't expect to come home and kids be magically potty trained. But Ethan has been more aware of his diaper. And he even agreed to sit on the potty tonight. Problem being that he won't sit on the big potty and the little potty was downstairs. So Nic ran downstairs while we waited in the bathroom. We came so close, but Ethan peed on the floor. While doing so, he said "pee pee potty" in a tone that made you think he knew he was supposed to put it in the potty. Maybe this will be a start on the road to potty training.