Milestones

This week has been busy.  Eme had her end of school party and celebration marking the end of preschool.  She has had a great experience at Benson and we will miss it terribly. Hopefully, Tyce will be able to attend Benson as well.  They had a swim party for their end of year party and a really cute singing program for the end of year celebration.

It was also warm enough this week to make the swimming pool fun.  Her stroke is coming along and I feel confident that she will be able to swim in the meets this year.

Tyce is doing great too.  He is a smiley, laughing little boy who pretty much only cries when he is hungry or tired.  He sleeps fairly well at night getting up only once. He has also started to grab things and put them in his mouth. I understand this is a developmental milestone, so we can check that one off the list.  Overall, he is just a joy to be around.

Too Cold

This week the theme has been cold.  Jeff, Eme, Taty, and I have had colds.  Yuck.  Thank goodness Tyce has thus far escaped the illness. 

Also, the pool opened last weekend and it is COLD.  Here is a picture of Eme at swim practice.  She swam twice and then decided it was too darn cold to swim.  Hopefully, she will be more interested in swimming when it warms up. 

I'll try to get some more and better quality pictures for next week's blog.  This is all I could manage this week.

Olympics Here We Come

We made it through the first week back to work with flying colors thanks to a lot of help.  We are very lucky to have a great family, wonderful neighbors and friends. 

Eme received her medal for participating in gymnastics for the whole year. She is really quite good and even though she did not try out for the specialty team, she has been asked to join the team. That would mean three hours of practice per week.  We are still trying to decide if she would be happiest doing gymnastics more or trying something else like soccer or girl scouts.  More to come on that one.  We also had a fun Muffins for Moms breakfast at Eme's school on Friday.  It's sad that this is her last month at Benson.  She has been going there since she was 18 months old, and we have had such great teachers and she has made some fantastic friends.

Eme also received her first love note from one of her classmates this past week.  Apparently the little boy was at home supposedly making birthday cards for his dad when he emerged from his room with this.  His mother said that he was quite adamant that he had to put it in Eme's cubby.  Too cute.

Tyce-a-roni is growing like a weed and is teasing us with the idea that he just might sleep through the night sometime soon.  He is really a pretty good sleeper, regularly sleeping 5+ hours at a time at night.  Not too bad for a three month old.

Daddy, Eme and Tyce-a-roni on the couch.

 Tyce all clean at 3 months.  Eme was probably closer to 6 months in the following picture.  Do you think they look alike? 

I should also say that I had a great Mother's Day.  It's fun to be a mom when you have two great kids.  It's the hardest, most rewarding job I've ever had.

Hi Ho, Hi Ho It's Back to Work We Go

Today was my first day back at work.  I figured that if I could make it out the door with all of our parts and pieces that we would be doing well and the day would go well.  We made it out the door with no issues at all (except for a catastrophic dropped resin dolphin we bought at the beach that shattered when it met the garage floor as we were headed out to the car.)  Otherwise, the plan was flawless.

Eme was a rock star.  She dressed herself, went potty and brushed her hair all before she even came downstairs to say good morning.  Tyce, who had been sleeping through the night, picked last night to wake up every hour, but then slept until 7:45 allowing Eme and me to get ready and have breakfast.

Mom survived her first day taking care of Tyce (Thanks Taty!)  Our neighbor delivered Eme from school to Taty's house.  I got to work and actually remembered what I did for a living and got a few things accomplished.  All in all a pretty good day.

Here are a couple of pictures for your enjoyment.

It's hard to get pictures of smiles due to the fact that you need to look right at him to get smiles and the camera sort of gets in the way of that.  Anyhow, here's a cute smile picture minus the red eye  ; )

Eme is constantly collecting things.  Bugs, rocks, seashells, etc.  Everything she collects has to have its own bucket, plastic container or bag. I can't tell you how many pebbles she currently has in plastic containers waiting for the "silipede eggs" to hatch.  Needless to say we will be waiting a while.