Some Exciting News

My sister, Stephanie, is expecting her first child and my first "niece or nephew". She has been after me for a couple days to post this news but every time I try something is going on. She called with the news Friday night and I am happy for her, she is happy. Steph has been a great aunt to my children and I know she will be a great mommy as well. Good luck to you and Dylan and I wish you both the best. Love ya!

Uneventful Week

I haven't posted in a while because our life has been pretty boring with just basic going ons: school, outside play and cleaning. We are getting ready to make our weekly trip to the library so the kids can find some new reading material, they both love going and today we are having Eric join us. We have a little over a month before we move and I hope to have everything ready to go early this time so I am not rushing around. I am flying Steph out after the move so she can visit for a week, we all miss her and are very excited to have her here.

Everyone needs to check out Nick's site for his newest songs, the studio they are working with wanted him and Rory to do some accoustic and they turned out great. www.myspace.com/thegrounddownunder, check it out.

Hopefully we will have something exciting happen over the weekend to post about, but right now we are in a boring rut LOL.

Today, we signed Jimmy up for T-ball and his first game will be March 6th, he is very excited. He and Isaiah will be on the same team and we can't wait to see him play. I am taking him out tomorrow to buy his glove and pants and I will make sure to get a lot of pictures. I have decided to make the drive from Winter Haven to Lakeland so he could stay with Isaiah and it will be better for Eric to make it after work.

We will finally have a house again, we will be moving in the end of February. The house is in Winter Haven and in a very nice neighborhood. They are still working on the inside but it is just about done, just a little clean up and painting and we will have a brand new house. It has 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2 car garage, big fenced yard, it's perfect. I can't believe that it is already landscaped, Eric doesn't like all the bushes, but I think it looks cute. Well, I figured I give all the update.

More House Pics

Updates...

Yesterday was a day of more tests and quizzes and she still did great. Jimmy can now spell his name and he is starting to figure out what the letters look like. After learning his letter of the week I send him to the refrigerator to find the magnetic letter and bring it to me. After he brought me the letter he was learning, I asked him to bring me past letters and he did it. Those magnets are really helping, before I couldn't get him to remember what the letters looked like, so he's doing great as well. I love being able to teach my children, this has been the best experience I have ever had.

Tomorrow is library day and the kids are really looking forward to it. Both of my kids love books as much as I do, they love going to the book store and will stay there as long as I need them to with no peep from either, and the library is fun for them because they get to use their cards to take books home. We only have 3 months left of school, it has just flown by and I can't believe my baby will be in kindergarten next school year.

Everyone knows that Taylor loves the new Disney show High School Musical, but her little brother loves it just as much. He goes in his room with his CD player and her CD and sings and dances to the music. He makes Eric and me laugh all the time with all the dances he comes up with.

I had Eric stay home a little longer this morning so he could have breakfast with us. I made blueberry muffins and he always complains that I never make him breakfast, so I did it this morning (hopefully it will hold him for awhile.) Now, it time to start school, so I will post soon.

A Bad Start and Good Ending

Yesterday was very busy, Taylor had 2 tests and 2 quizzes right off the bat but she passed 2 with 100% and 2 in the high A's. Tay is a very bright child and she loves to learn. Both of the kids did more art projects again and they turned out fabulous. Taylor had to make an aquarium and she took it to the next level with her creativity, I was blown away with her skills in drawing.

Jimmy had a tough day yesterday, so we did not do school. He was crying about everything, which is nothing like him, once he was working on his projects he was fine, so I thought maybe he had just been bored, WRONG! Immediately, when art was over, he started again, so I put him in bed and let him watch a movie and that seemed to help. I don't have too many hard days with Jim, he usually cooperates very well, but yesterday was just not his day. I figured, he is allowed a bad day every once in awhile, we've all been there.

After dinner, Eric and I played with the kids for awhile and then settled down to watch Wife Swap and Super Nanny. Jimmy loves Super Nanny and does not budge from his spot while it is on but during commercials, he dances around the living room making us laugh. All in all, it turned out to be a great day.

Happy Birthday Mom

Today Mom is celebrating her 28 1/2 year birthday and I hope it is great. I was able to call her this morning and the kids called her after the zoo to wish her a happy day. I love and miss you, Mom, and hopefully will see you sooner than later. Have a wonderful day and enjoy your Outback!

A Day at Lowery Park Zoo

Today we spent the day with our children at Lowery Park Zoo in Tampa and I have to say, I was very impressed. I figured it would be just so-so, but it was great. KC Zoo has a lot more animals but the way this zoo is set up is far better than KC. The kids rode rides and we all had fun watching the manatees.

Today was actually a field trip for Taylor, she is learning about vertabrates and invertabrates and tomorrow she will write about her trip in her science journal. Our Friends of the Zoocard worked here as well, so we were able to get into the park for free, I have to say that was a great gift from Grandma and Grandpa. Hope you enjoy the pictures and I can't wait to take visitors to this zoo, it was so much fun and the kids had a blast. Tay and Jim also played in the water park and they loved it. Our temp hit almost 90 degrees today, not bad for January.

Bubble Bath Fun

Jimmy got bubble bath from Greg for Christmas and he loves it. I snapped a few pics while he was playing in the tub and of course acting goofy as usual.

Daddy and Jimmy

Jimmy and Daddy clowning around on Eric's vacation.