Busy, busy week!

This was Hunter's 3rd week of school but only his 2nd full week. He is enjoying school so much and is so excited when he gets home to tell us all that he has done. We get another recap at dinner when dad is home and he beams when he tells us all that he has done.

This was Brayden's first week of school and he did so good at school and I can tell that he is very ready for preschool. He settled in but had a hard time with me wanting to leave on Thursday. I am going to leave on Tuesday next week because I am going to start volunteering in Hunter's class in October so Brayden needs to get used to me not always being at preschool. I know he will do fine and we just love Teacher Kim so I'm not worried about him because she will take great care of him.

This week was full of meetings for school and our HOA. It was also Hunter's open house at his school and Sean made sure to be home in time to come with us. It was really fun to go and be able to see all the things that he talks about when he comes home. There were a few things that we were not sure exactly what he's been talking about but once we saw everything we figured them out. The teacher had a lot of nice things to say about Hunter and she told us that he keeps track if she misses anything during the day. This made me laugh and I told her that he is a routine kid and notices if things aren't done just so. We talked about me starting to volunteer in class next month and she said that she heard from Hunter that I make playdoh for the preschool and would I do it for her class too. Of course I said yes and then we made our way to go meet Hunter's P.E. teacher. She too told us what a joy Hunter is and that she had asked Hunter earlier if she was going to get to meet us. I am so glad that he is doing so well and that he is a pleasure for his teachers.

Hunter has been wanting to sign up for wrestling and I got some information about it. I told him that I would and that we would make a family decision once we got more info. The kids meet at the high school on M-W-F from 6-8pm and once I saw that I told Hunter that I didn't think it was a very good idea yet. He knows that he goes to bed at 7pm and that if we did wrestling he wouldn't get to bed until 8:30 or 9pm. He's been so tired and has had a few tears on Thursday mornings because of being tired and he said that maybe he can do it when he gets a little bit bigger. The maturity level that is showing lately with him and his thoughts and actions has just amazed me!

Yesterday and today I made time for some very special friends that I haven't seen for a couple of months. We got to enjoy some grown up conversation while the kids played and it was really nice catching up now that it seems like our lives are just getting busier and busier with these kiddos.

I hope that everyone enjoys the rest of the weekend! Happy Fall!!!

Football Sunday!

The weather took a drastic change from high 80's to cool fall weather and lots of rain this weekend. I must say that fall is my favorite season with the cooler temps and the beautiful colors that we are graced with in the Northwest. Now the first day of fall is not until later this week but I felt like it started for our family this weekend. I love to pick up my scrapbooking in the fall and we enjoy watching Sunday football together as a family. Sean and I used to go to a lot of games since we began dating in September but that was 8 years and 2 kids ago. So now we enjoy them from the comfort and warmth of our own house :)

Last night I went and spent the evening scrapbooking at a local store while Sean and the boys baked yummy peanut butter cookies and had a boys evening in. This morning we woke up to even more rain than yesterday and we spent the morning on the couch watching the Seahawks. Now the game was pitiful without any score on the board by the Seahawks but as the pictures show I had my own game going on in my living room. The game in my living room was much more entertaining than the one on t.v. Gotta love my boys!!!

Hunter's first day of Kindergarten!

Today was Hunter's first day of Kindergarten! Back when Hunter was first born I thought this day was so far in the future but it seems like just yesterday that I was holding that little bundle of a baby in my arms. Now he is so big and he was so confident today. I was a very proud mom! His teachers name is Miss Kennard and she is very friendly and outgoing and Hunter has 13 other kids in his class.
We got up this morning and had breakfast together. Then Brayden and I drove Hunter to the bus stop. We watched him get on the bus and then we drove to the school to watch him get off and walk him to class. Once we got him all set up in class is when Brayden lost it. The principal heard him crying and invited us into the library for coffee and banana bread. After a little while of visiting with the other kindergarten parents we snuck down to the class to see all the kids listening to a story and then we left to go get Brayden's haircut and do some shopping. Brayden and I had a long day of waiting for Hunter and Brayden told me a couple times how much he missed Hunter. Just a couple weeks ago Brayden told Hunter at lunch that he was going to miss him when he got on the bus. I knew that this was going to be a hard day for Brayden because his whole life he and Hunter have been together.
When it was time to go pick Hunter up from the bus stop Brayden was thrilled. I was interested to see how Hunter was feeling after a full day at school and was expecting him to be tired. Most of all I couldn't wait to see how his day was and I was hoping that he had a fun day. Hunter got off the bus and walked straight over to Brayden and wrapped his arms around him and gave him the biggest hug. There are no words for how I felt when I saw that. I just know that my heart melted. Then he gave me a big hug and I was so happy that he was happy to see us. Brayden had the biggest grin on his face and he told Hunter that he had missed him. Hunter then told us about his first day and how much fun he had. He was a little tired but for the most part all he wanted to do was play with Brayden. They spent the next hour outside playing in this beautiful weather we are having and I got to go through all the stuff sent home after the first day. I am a very happy mom and so happy that my boys are such good friends and brothers.