Monday, June 26, 2017
Last two weeks of June
June has been crazy around here!
Katsu started out the week in California. He got home on Tuesday morning. Monday, the boys didn't want to leave the house as it was the first real day of summer break, so we stayed at home, went swimming, and ate whatever the dregs of the pantry were. We picked Katsu up on Tuesday morning and got ready for Seth's birthday party. I made him a super yummy cake on Monday night, but took it out of the pan too soon and it broke into pieces, so we had to make him a new strawberry one on Tuesday. His friends came over in the afternoon and then the 4 of them along with Logan went and played at AirU. I think they had a lot of fun. Then, they came home and had Papa John's pizza and cake and opened presents. It was a nice low-key party.
Wednesday, we got ready in the morning and then the older 3 went to a friend's house (a very gracious friend), while Katsu, Noah, and I flew to Utah. It was Noah's first plane trip, but he did great and loved having his own video player. The flight took off late by at least an hour, so we got into Utah pretty late. Noah fell asleep at the very end of the flight and was grumpy when I was carrying him and crying and wanting to go home. Once we got him asleep in the hotel bed, it was better.
We spent the next day looking at houses in the morning / afternoon and then going out to eat and playing at the park with my friend Melissa from high school and her kids. Noah was a great sport - he slept in the car while we looked at most houses, but liked the last one where he was awake because they had raspberry bushes. Now, he keeps asking me to move there. My boys are ruled by their stomachs.
Friday, we had interviews and such in the morning and Noah was a really good sport - he went and played at Katsu's colleagues' house with his wife and kids. They had super hero toys and put on super hero videos and gave him tons of food and he was happy. Katsu and I went out to lunch with another of Katsu's colleagues and then picked up Noah. He fell asleep on the way back to the hotel and took a long nap. Katsu had some more afternoon meetings and meanwhile, my grandparents came over to the hotel and we chatted for a few hours. Then, we walked and got some dinner.
The next morning, we flew home and picked up all the boys who looked like they had a great time and had tons of mosquito bites! Logan played more or less quietly with toys, they swam for hours every day and probably ate them out of house and home. But, Andrew was well-behaved and praised her cooking and made sure none of them woke up too early, so I think every one did really well.
Sunday was a quiet day and we also spent time picking up the house getting it ready to sell.
The fourth week in June was busy busy busy. We met with realtors, cleaned carpets, painted and painted and painted, decluttered, looked at houses, looked at preschools, looked at job offers, etc. Andrew and Seth had twilight camp for cub scouts each evening so they were gone from 6 - 9+ for that every night. Lots of fun, lots of bug bites, really late nights. Logan had his kindergarten assessment at Ridgewood. Andrew had a doctor appointment. Logan got a fever and croup and was sick for a few days. It rained quite a lot, almost every day, so we didn't get to pool or much places with a sick kid. We checked out a new grocery store in town, Lidl, and enjoyed the pastries. Friday night, we all went and saw the cub scout skits and also had a nice dinner.
Saturday was Seth's birthday. We started the day with presents, streamers, and a birthday cupcake. Seth got lots of video games and some books and a ball for the pool. We then got ready to go to his baptism and picked up the house so someone could come help us clean so we can get caught up. Seth's baptism was great - tons of people came - I gave the talk on baptism, Andrew gave the talk on the Holy Ghost, everything went well, we had brownies and cookies, and then we went home. The boys played video games for a bit and then we went to a going away party for friends in the ward and had some pizza. The boys played video games pretty much all afternoon while Logan took a nap (must have still been recovering I guess because he never takes naps). We went to Golden Corral for dinner at Seth's specific request. Everyone had fun. Seth played enormous amounts of screens. Everyone was happy.
Katsu started out the week in California. He got home on Tuesday morning. Monday, the boys didn't want to leave the house as it was the first real day of summer break, so we stayed at home, went swimming, and ate whatever the dregs of the pantry were. We picked Katsu up on Tuesday morning and got ready for Seth's birthday party. I made him a super yummy cake on Monday night, but took it out of the pan too soon and it broke into pieces, so we had to make him a new strawberry one on Tuesday. His friends came over in the afternoon and then the 4 of them along with Logan went and played at AirU. I think they had a lot of fun. Then, they came home and had Papa John's pizza and cake and opened presents. It was a nice low-key party.
Wednesday, we got ready in the morning and then the older 3 went to a friend's house (a very gracious friend), while Katsu, Noah, and I flew to Utah. It was Noah's first plane trip, but he did great and loved having his own video player. The flight took off late by at least an hour, so we got into Utah pretty late. Noah fell asleep at the very end of the flight and was grumpy when I was carrying him and crying and wanting to go home. Once we got him asleep in the hotel bed, it was better.
We spent the next day looking at houses in the morning / afternoon and then going out to eat and playing at the park with my friend Melissa from high school and her kids. Noah was a great sport - he slept in the car while we looked at most houses, but liked the last one where he was awake because they had raspberry bushes. Now, he keeps asking me to move there. My boys are ruled by their stomachs.
Friday, we had interviews and such in the morning and Noah was a really good sport - he went and played at Katsu's colleagues' house with his wife and kids. They had super hero toys and put on super hero videos and gave him tons of food and he was happy. Katsu and I went out to lunch with another of Katsu's colleagues and then picked up Noah. He fell asleep on the way back to the hotel and took a long nap. Katsu had some more afternoon meetings and meanwhile, my grandparents came over to the hotel and we chatted for a few hours. Then, we walked and got some dinner.
The next morning, we flew home and picked up all the boys who looked like they had a great time and had tons of mosquito bites! Logan played more or less quietly with toys, they swam for hours every day and probably ate them out of house and home. But, Andrew was well-behaved and praised her cooking and made sure none of them woke up too early, so I think every one did really well.
Sunday was a quiet day and we also spent time picking up the house getting it ready to sell.
The fourth week in June was busy busy busy. We met with realtors, cleaned carpets, painted and painted and painted, decluttered, looked at houses, looked at preschools, looked at job offers, etc. Andrew and Seth had twilight camp for cub scouts each evening so they were gone from 6 - 9+ for that every night. Lots of fun, lots of bug bites, really late nights. Logan had his kindergarten assessment at Ridgewood. Andrew had a doctor appointment. Logan got a fever and croup and was sick for a few days. It rained quite a lot, almost every day, so we didn't get to pool or much places with a sick kid. We checked out a new grocery store in town, Lidl, and enjoyed the pastries. Friday night, we all went and saw the cub scout skits and also had a nice dinner.
Saturday was Seth's birthday. We started the day with presents, streamers, and a birthday cupcake. Seth got lots of video games and some books and a ball for the pool. We then got ready to go to his baptism and picked up the house so someone could come help us clean so we can get caught up. Seth's baptism was great - tons of people came - I gave the talk on baptism, Andrew gave the talk on the Holy Ghost, everything went well, we had brownies and cookies, and then we went home. The boys played video games for a bit and then we went to a going away party for friends in the ward and had some pizza. The boys played video games pretty much all afternoon while Logan took a nap (must have still been recovering I guess because he never takes naps). We went to Golden Corral for dinner at Seth's specific request. Everyone had fun. Seth played enormous amounts of screens. Everyone was happy.
Sunday, June 11, 2017
Second week of June 2017
Last week of school ...
- Andrew went to a birthday party for his friend at a nearby water park and a had a blast.
- Kids celebrated Golden Day on Monday for all the kids doing well at keeping the rules this week. They got twinkies and Golden Oreos and went to an older class (Andrew went to 5th grade and Seth to 3rd grade) and played Minute-to-win-it games.
- Finally had the meeting to get Seth an IEP so he can get speech services. I get this process for special education stuff, but it takes way too long for speech. He can start speech next year. I am going to start evaluating Logan much earlier!
- I had a dentist appt on Tuesday and the younger boys went and played at Play Date - first time since Noah was born. Logan was nervous for me to leave him, but Noah was ready to go!
- The sister missionaries came over on Tuesday for dinner and to give us a lesson about missionary work. We had nachos, which I couldn't eat because I had had fluroride. Oh, well - it was yummy as a salad too.
- Wednesday morning both boys had award ceremonies. Logan and Noah did pretty well sitting still for the whole 1.5 hours! Andrew got awards for:
- Battle of the Books (and trophy)
- Math Masters (and trophy)
- Science Olympiad (and trophy)
- Math Fair participation
- Outstanding Orchestra student
- PE
- Terrific Kid
- SGA
- Student Leadership
- Honor Roll
- Presidential Gold Medal
- Running Club
- Seth got awards for:
- All S's
- Music
- Math
- Highest AR points
- Highest AR reading level
- Highest Read 3D reading level
- Math fair participation
- Katsu and I celebrated our 14th wedding anniversary. The kids stayed home with a babysitter while we went to Chef and the Farmer. We had a cozy seat and a long leisurely dinner - like 2+ hours, I think. Katsu had a whole trout with stewed tomatoes. I had a soft shell crab and a sweet potato stuffed with shrimp and vegetables. We also got some grits to share. It was great fun and one of our favorite restaurants.
- Seth had a party in his class on Thursday. It was entertaining to watch them all dancing to a Just Dance like thing. They also had an enormous number of snacks.
- Kids had their last day of school. We had ice cream sandwiches when they got home, played for a while, and went to the pool. Then, we took Katsu to the airport for a conference and all went to AirU to bounce - Logan was at a birthday party and the older kids just bounced for 2 hours and had a great time.
- We spent a lot of time fixing up the house this week. We fixed our lock on the front door and had an electrician finally fix all our 3 way light switches which didn't work correctly. We also have been painting slowly all the trim and doorframes and such through the house - it looks so much better with a nice bright white.
- Saturday we painted, played, cleaned, and went to the pool.
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Sunday, June 04, 2017
First week of June 2017
A pretty unremarkable week except for Memorial Day.
- A trip to the beach with lost items - Memorial Day. The weather forecast ended up looking good so we went to the beach. It was a mixed day. We went to Fort Macon state park because it's our favorite beach access. Loving the new car because it was so easy to pack and loving the video system. The beach was lovely, nice weather, but the waves were pretty big - probably about the biggest we have seen at the beach. So, we made the kids stay close. Seth was bummed because his boogie board wasn't working well - it was broken and the strap broke. Logan's was a little broken, too. Noah was loving running in the waves, especially when Katsu carried him out into the big waves. He was happy to play the entire time. Then, Katsu lost his glasses and hat in the ocean! There was no way we were going to find them. You think we would have learned and make sure to remove everything. But, no. Then, Andrew lost his vivofit. He was crying, off and on, the rest of the day. But really, otherwise, it was a lovely day at the beach.
- Boys had a shark party at school.
- Blue and Gold for cub scouts. Katsu ran it and it was simple and went well. One of the mom's did a minion theme, which was cute. The boys all made minions out of pool noodles, which Noah and Logan especially loved. And there was banana splits for dessert. Andrew got the rest of his Bear adventure loops and his Bear badge and one of his first Webelos pins, so that was great. Going to Congaree really helped with camping and hiking ones.
- Andrew took his end of grade tests (EOGs) on Wed. and Thurs. It is really boring for him because he finishes in like an hour and then has to just sit and stare into space for 3 hours as he can't read books or anything. So, we were pretty low key this week in terms of piano and chores and things. He got a 5 on both with a pretty high score, so he should get to do all his fun gifted activities next year.
- Movie Night - we did two this week - Little Mermaid (Noah's pick) and Cars 2.
- Saturday morning we did some cleaning (we are slowing cleaning all the carpets - two rooms down and some painting). We then went and checked out the new section of the Greenway, which was done really nicely. Then, some shopping and more shopping. A chill day, more or less.
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