Kindergarten

WOW! It is so hard to believe that Ethan is in Kindergarten already. The evening before his first day he was a busy little bee. He was very excited! He memorized his school number. He loves typing it into the calculator. He shows me every morning so I will remember it, too. He cleaned up all his toys, and Logan's. Then he made his lunch so he could go to sleep.

First Day of Kindergarten

This is what he said after his first day when Daddy picked him up, 

"Kindergarten was awesome!"

And when he got home, the first thing he said to Nonny was, 

"I had fun at school!"

I have to admit I was both sad and excited when I dropped him off the first day. Okay, and the rest of the week as well.

Logan also had a difficult time adjusting to Big Brother being in school all day. The first day, Nonny came to stay with Logan. Ethan and I were about to leave and Logan started putting on his sandals. He wanted to go with us. He started to cry when I told him Nonny was going to stay home with him. It just broke my heart. We had a tough morning. When we got to school, Ethan walked right in and sat at his desk. No tears! (from Ethan)

The second day Ethan says, "I have lots of new friends." He also told us about some rules at school. "Red" means timeout and you have to sit and watch everybody else play. He doesn't want "Red."
Logan went with me to drop Ethan off. He wanted to stay at Ethan's Dragon school. They are the Daulton Dragons. Too cute. So I asked some of the teachers if they had a class for Logan to stay in, but they said no.

The third day he said he went to the gym and the gym teacher told him to run home. Ethan told the teacher, "But I don't want to run home." Still not sure about this one. Ethan is super excited for fun Fridays at school. He gets to play with the kitchen and computers.

The fourth day we had a great conversation over dinner. Whoever picks him up from school waits to ask him about his day. This way he has to talk about it only once. So we decided to make this a dinner ritual. When we asked about his day, he told us he went to the music room. Daddy asked him if he got to play the guitar. He said, "No, we learned about a composer." We asked, "What is a composer?" He said Bach is a composer. Bach is with a "C." We asked what a composer does. He said a composer writes notes for you to sing.

The rest of the week, Logan had a pretty good time getting Mommy's full attention.

And Ethan is having a wonderful time! Hopefully week two will be a little easier for everyone.

~ Becky

Mac and Cheese

It's always a great day when you can make two boxes of mac and cheese for the family and you and your two year old son almost finish it! Ethan does not like pasta of any kind so Becky, Logan, and myself polished off almost all of the two boxes. It was awesome! Logan is such a machine when it comes to eating. Ethan does not understand it when we tell him that Logan is going to be bigger than him soon.

We spent last night on our boat and watched to moon rise. Ethan was full of questions that most five year old's would never ask. "What is on Mars?" "When will space ships land here?" "Why does the fish bait smell bad?" Ok, the last one everyone asks.

Christmas in July?

I asked Ethan if he wanted to put something on his Christmas list... So, the boys decided to give us their Christmas lists tonight. It's too cute to not share!

Ethan

• Star Wars Legos (lots of Star Wars Legos)
• Lots of Star Wars 

Logan

• Candy Canes

Hahahahaha! I love my boys SO much!

~ Becky

Fun in June

The past couple of weeks have been very busy but very fun!

Splash Factory!

Jake and I made the cake for Ethan's end of season TBall party.

Coach Gifts

all the boys signed baseballs for the coaches

Father's Day!

The Oasis for Becky's Birthday!

Feeding the fish

Our boys after Church

~ Becky

This Week

Want to share a few photos from this week

The boys fell asleep together. 

Too sweet! 

Learning time. 

The boys wanted to make a picture for Daddy.

They gave them to him when he got home from work. 

We are not looking forward to the day when their feet fit in these shoes! 

Ethan's TBall team won 1st place! 

We had 4 total teams in our Division. Ethan should have played Wham Ball with the 4 year olds, but his coach from the Fall pulled him up to the 5 year old team! We are glad because he learned a ton! He loves the boys on the team and all the coaches! Ethan is the youngest one on the team. Sammy is missing from this photo. Ethan is in the middle row on the right. 

We had a great season! 

# 8 

Ethan with his favorite Coach!

~ Becky

TBall Tournament

Wow we had an exhausting weekend. Ethan had a tournament. We had 2 games on Saturday--won the first, lost the second. And 2 games today--won the first and lost the second. He hit a triple and got a few RBIs! He also hit in the winning runs this morning! It was 100° + out there. whew! The boys didn't even want to play it was so hot.
Logan loves going to Ethan's games to "watch" him play. Although his definition of watch is: play with everything he can get his hands on and eat as many snacks as he can find and run off as far as he can before he gets caught. It's been a challenge for me to watch Ethan play and keep an eye on Logan at the same time. The terrible two's have definitely began. But I would not change it for anything!!!
What a great experience we are having being the parents of two amazing boys!
My Mom, Dad, Sister and Doug also came to Ethan's tournament. Thank you for the support! oh, and helping me keep up with Logan :)
~ Becky

T-Ball

Tonight was Ethan's second to last T-ball game. We won! And we beat the team that beat us on a technicality last time we played them. That was nice. We have a T-ball tourney this weekend, then one last game on Tuesday! Daddy can't wait till T-ball is over!!!!

Logan and Ethan were so cute tonight after the game and shower. We called Grandma to wish her a happy birthday and they were being just adorable. It is those moments that you are so happy to be a parent. It made yesterday so worth it, we had a bad evening yesterday.

~Jake