Swimming, Soccer and Tubes

I honestly expected for it to have been longer than 2 1/2 weeks since my last post...this month has been a BUSY, BUSY, BUSY! I expect April to be busy for the rest of my life, I have boys birthdays to celebrate. We had a big celebration last weekend. I will post on that soon! But there are other things too...

 

We had lots and lots of fun Easter activities, more on that in a bit. We started swim lessons for both boys, we have Jonathan's soccer games ever Saturday morning. Since it is Spring, we have been working in the yard to pretty it up for ourselves and the party. Jonathan has made HUGE strides in his development in the past month. Each of us have been sick with a little something here and there...stomach bug, sinus infections, ear infections...you name it.

 

We decided at the beginning of the month that we needed to do something about the boys swimming abilities. Jonathan's new best bud, Gage, has a pool at his house and Jonathan said, "maybe we can go swimming and I can stand on my tip-toes and Gage can swim around me..." I hated that for him. I want him to know how to swim - not just so he can have fun in the pool, but for his own safety! So we enrolled both boys at a Swim School. They have a 3 month program that meets once a week. We have gone 4 times now and both boys are doing amazing! They were both timid in the beginning, but Jonathan can swim under water almost by himself (he holds the instructors pointer finger) for 10 seconds. Ben can swim underwater, with NO ONE touching him for 3 seconds. (the picture of Jonathan above is at the first lesson, he no longer needs the floaty on his back). I am so happy that we are doing this! I am looking forward to more progress and fun in the sun this summer!  

It makes me so happy that he likes it so much!

Another amazing thing that Jonathan has accomplished this month - writing his name!! It was a goal for us to master this by the end of the Pre-K year. I am so excited for him! It is a long name to remember all those letters! We finally did a game of assigning a word to each letter. Such as: J is for Jonathan, O is for Owen, N is for Nathan, A is for Apple, T is for Tree, H is for House, A is for Apple and N is for Nathan! And low and behold, he remembered it! YAY!

I had his end of year evaluation with his teachers last week and they said he is ready to move on to Kindergarten! Registration is just a couple weeks away...scary!
In our meeting they showed me his "Journal" which is a daily drawing, that they have to describe and the teacher usually writes on the drawing what the child said it is. But this time, she asked him what it was and he said "friends" and she told him to write it on there and sound it out! "FRZ" was what he came up with! I was beaming with pride, I asked if I could take a picture!! I just love to see him grow and learn. It is an amazing time for him right now!

 

On a roll for Mr. Jonathan - earlier this month, he scored his first goal in a soccer game!!! This is huge! He has wanted to since he started playing last Fall! Before every game he will say, "I sure hope a score a goal today." He awesome goal was the kick off from the center of the field. He kicked it so hard and straight, that it went right through the other kids and right into the goal! It was AWESOME! People were even talking about it after the game!
This is right after the game - all smiles!  

J giving Daddy and Ben a high-five!

 

 

After approx 13 ear infections, Ben is scheduled to have Tubes put in his ears and his Adenoids removed THIS FRIDAY, April 26th. Please pray for our sweet boy. Even though it is a routine surgery, it is still really scary for us! We are so hopeful that it will help him and he won't suffer as much or at all any more! Ben's 2nd Birthday is this Monday, April 29th. So I hoping for a full recovery by then. This pic is at the ENT appointment. Ben said, "Look Mommy, Big-Tall!" He is a BIG talker. It is amazing how many words he knows and uses them ALL! He is fun, silly, sweet AND A RASCAL and I have lots of things to update on him too...all coming soon!



And in closing, here are some pictures of our yard, Spring has Sprung and I love all the pretty flowers!