Itty Bitty Soccer

Earlier this summer I enrolled Josh into Itty Bitty Soccer. This is basically a program that introduces 3 and 4 year olds to certain sports. They also do this for Football, Baseball, Volleyball etc. The class was only a few weeks every Tuesday and Thursday and the short time Josh was in it I was impressed with how well he did. He would get excited every morning for his 'soccer day'.

Josh was going through a phase (at least I hope it was a phase) where he wanted to be a girl. He is surrounded by girls everywhere and couldn't understand why he had to be a boy. Poor thing, I felt horrible and Aaron was worried. haha. I thought that this soccer experience would change that but boy was I wrong when he was one of 2 boys on a more dominate girls team. WHAT? seriously now, there were all boy teams but he got put on a girls team. Nice huh?! Well luckily that didn't have much of an effect on him and he has gotten over wanting to be a girl. Now he says "Mommy... I'll be a boy FOREVER". I acknowledge that he is correct and that it is a good thing because he loves trains so much. I tell ya though, when he is older he will be loving it with all the girls in our neighborhood. We have found a few other boys near his age that he gets together with once a week - He enjoys it a lot!

Back to the soccer... I got a new video editing software for my birthday and tried it out with all the video I took while at his practices. It is merely a test as this program is very complex so I used this to play around and get to know the program a bit. It is fun to watch him though and I am glad I was able to put this together.



On the last day they had a mascot come in with balloons and suckers. Josh just HAD to get a picture with him. It was so stinkin' cute!

We are alive...

Yes, we are alive... :) It's been so long since I've last posted and SO much has been happening. Over the next few weeks (more likely a month) I will be catching up.

But for now I am going to post about today and try to keep myself up to date from today onwards and catch up on the past 3 months in between.

Today was a drastic change in weather from what we have been experiencing. It rained all day and stayed in the cool 40's. A nice beginning to the fall weather I suppose.

To start the day off we did our usual but then I began preparations on my Homemade Soup and Rolls for Aaron and a few of his co-workers. They started doing this thing called 'lean-lunches' where they all get together at a nearby house (one of the co-workers) and have lunch together 3 days a week. They each take turns being in charge of the meals for one week. With about 7 of them Aaron is only in charge of meals once every 7 weeks. I thought this was a fantastic idea to eat healthier and save on eating out. Aaron hardly ever ate out but it would save me on making him a lunch every day :) So I offered to make the lunches for them. Yesterday I made a Breaded Parmesan Chicken Rotini Pasta with a Salad. Today I did Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup and Rolls. I just actually finished baking Sticky Toffee Pudding for tomorrow's dessert and I will be making Chicken Salad Croissants, Three-Cheese Garden Pizza and Apple Berry Salsa with Cinnamon Chips. Mmmm I think I am more excited for these things then they will be. :) It's been fun making all this food but it has taken most of my mornings.

So after lunch time as crazy as I am I decided to go outside with the kids. I bundled them all up (especially Rachael) and we headed out for a walk. I managed to squeeze all three kids (one of them being the girl I watch in the week) into my double stroller. I figured after the walk that I was pushing about 100 pounds in that stroller. Whew, I was worn out by the end of it. We went on a pretty long walk; we were gone about an hour. The wind was icy chilly but it was so nice to get out into the fresh air. Near the end of our walk I let Josh and Taylor throw a few rocks into the pond and then ran nearly the rest of the way home pushing this HEAVY stroller as a rain cloud was starting to pour on us. We had a lot of fun, especially coming back inside to warm up.

Thanks to the camera on my phone I was able to take a few snapshots...