School is Ending!

Thursday was a very sad day as Grayson graduated from Junior PreK at Starchild Academy. She had the best teacher, Miss Kim. She learned so much during the last year. She knows her alphabet, all her numbers and about 12 sight words! She also knows her ABC's in Spanish and a Japanese song to which I have no clue what she is saying! Maybe she will become a world traveler. As we were walking in Sam's today she was singing the alphabet song in Spanish and I just laughed. Delaney has one more week of school and she is excited that there is no more homework. I purchased our airline tickets out to Dallas today so I have that off my list! Now to get my mom out here for her visit! I think I got her to narrow her dates down so now all she needs is a ticket! We will be out in Dallas from July 7-August 19. A nice long visit so there is no running around trying to get everything we enjoy doing and seeing in just a couple of weeks. The plan is for Ryan to come out during that time too for a short visit and hopefully we can get him down to Victoria to see my family this year! I really hopes this works out. School starts back up the end of August and Delaney will be in 4th grade and Grayson will start Ladybird Academy in their FREE VPK.(Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten)

Grayson's cubby


Grayson and Robert

Grayson starts swim lessons the middle of June so we have that and Delaney's gymnastics on our agenda!

Grayson's 4th Birthday Party at The Little Gym




Wow what a great day we had today! Grayson's birthday is not until Tuesday but we had her party today at The Little Gym! She danced, ran, twirled, tumbled, hung on the bars and did somersaults on the beam! She had about 10 friends come celebrate with her. Miss Melissa and Miss Danielle did an awesome job leading the party and all the kids. Aunt Hope made a wonderful barbie birthday cake which was requested by Grayson and she had to have pink icing!! We ate cake after all the tumbling was over and took the gifts home for her to open. It is hard to believe that she is 4 years old! She has been in preschool for a year now and has an inquisitive mind. She asks many questions and likes to figure out how things work.
Grayson and her Barbie cake




Grayson and Mikayla hanging around like a couple of monkey's!


Delaney, Grayson and Emerson

What a week!

We have GREAT news, Delaney passed the FCAT!!! So as far as we can tell there is no summer school for her and she goes on to 4th grade!! We are super excited. Her teacher called up the kids one by one and told them if they passed or not! What a weight that has been lifted off our shoulders. So as soon as I confirm all of the results I can book our Dallas trip for this summer.

In other news soccer is now over for the season. Delaney's team, the Red Bulls, went undefeated this season and were only scored on 3 times the entire time! We had a nice soccer party on Tuesday night and each child got their trophy and plenty of pizza and games to play at Kidtropolis. Grayson got her trophy after her last game on Saturday and proudly carries it around with her.

We can't wait for my mom to get here this weekend. She comes in on Saturday and will be here until Thursday. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and we can take Grayson to DisneyWorld on her birthday which is Tuesday! You get in free on your birthday and Emerson is still free so that is so much cheaper when you have two kids you don't have to pay for. Grayson's birthday party is on Sunday at The Little Gym and since it is Memorial Day weekend we probably won't have much of a turnout but then again we will have the whole gym to ourself!!!! Maybe the weather will hold off and we can make it to the beach with my mom too!

Mother's Day 2009

We had a great day today! We took the girls to New Smyrna Beach which is about 30 minutes from the house. We got the car parked, all the stuff out and unbuckled the kids when I realized we left all blankets and towels AT HOME!!! So we found a souvenier shop and I ended up buying $50 in beach towels!! The worst part of it all is that I just bought 5 new beach towels for the beach yesterday!! I guess we have new beach towels for the year now! Anyway we finally made it down to the beach, stuck our umbrella in the ground and let the kids go. Emmy does not like the water but loved the sand this time! Delaney is like a fish and couldn't wait to get in the surf and Grayson gladly followed behind. The kids played hard and made lots of sand castles. It was a perfect day for the beach and we must do this more often.

When we got home we all took showers and cleaned up then went to Joe's Crab Shack for a Mother's Day dinner. I figured since we were going with a beach theme what a better place to get some crab! It was delicious and the kids got to play on their playground while we enjoyed our dinner! So after a busy weekend of soccer games on Saturday and the beach today we are whipped! Hopefully the kids will sleep as hard tonight as they did in the car on the way back home from the beach!