Life This Week

Each day gets a little bit busier as school draws near. It has been a good, long summer (though Kyle and Gregg would both agree it has been short). I think I am ready to get Kyle back into a daily routine (though, Kyle and Gregg would both agree this isn't necessary!). It really hit me the other day when I came home from work and found Kyle still in his pajama's, slightly stained from the past few nights of drool. I made a comment. What mother wouldn't???? Snickers, that's what I got, a snicker from both of them! Okay, so maybe, as an adult, on a particular given Saturday I may have been found to be in my pajama's come 1:00 PM, BUT, this is completely acceptable, as I am an adult. Not-to-mention, I likely had a really good excuse! I was probably busy cleaning, Kyle, on the other hand was busy having fun! As I was saying, routine, I'm looking for routine. Thankfully, it's coming, it's around the corner and come September 2nd there will be nothing any one of us can do about it!

As you may guess, Kyle is enjoying his summer. He now has a frog, apparently named Kermit (the 2nd or 3rd or 4th maybe, we're not entirely sure). He is quite fond of it and enjoys watching him eat grasshoppers, crickets and worms. I am just glad Kyle appears to be too old to have any sort of desire to eat a live frog (can you believe I have a friend whose 4 yr old just ate a LIVE FROG this past week). Kyle learned of his 4th grade teacher for this fall, I think the two of them will do well together. He is not familiar with her, but Gregg taught with her for awhile and she coached the JV girls HS soccer team for a year. We'll find out on Wednesday who his classmates will be when we attend his open house. Today Kyle attended daycare with Jack! Gregg had a game all day in Marquette, so Kyle had a day away. I think Jack was most pleased with the idea this morning. Kyle was tolerating the idea. I am sure it will give him a good idea as to whether or not he'll enjoy one more day there on Tuesday next week (Gregg has meetings all day). Wednesday and Thursday he'll go to work with Gregg and then have Friday (except high school soccer practice) and Monday off before the big day!

Jack is doing well too. He's had a rough go of it a few days this past week with a tooth that just can't poke through his gums. It seems like he has been working on it for months. He is definitely enjoying his animals. He loves to imitate different animals, and meow's regularly when he see's a picture of a "ditty" (which in his case can even be a pig). He loves to chase the dogs around, and is also becoming a little more curious with them. I know what he's thinking when he's eyeing up one of the dogs...."what will he do if I.....jump on his paw"? I'm really being tested with his 14 month old tantrums. On occassion he really gets mad, I'm talking a dramatic mad, whereas he cries, flops on the floor and puts his head in his hands. I'm hoping that it seems a little worse this week because of the tooth that's been teasing him. Time will tell, and for now I ignore it, find him something else or have my own tantrum right alongside him. Things he finds fun at the moment are: sitting in his chair and eating snacks, bringing things to us, sitting on the tractor, pulling his little pop toy around (the other day he pulled it down the entire driveway and wanted to keep going on the road when Gregg tried to turn him around!). He has also discovered the word, "hi" and has tons of fun (when he chooses to, of course) when he uses the word.

So, Mom, does any of this sound familiar? You told me my time would come...It's here!

Everything else is going alright. Soccer is in full-swing and Gregg is busy with practice and games. Most days he takes Kyle with him, and from time to time Kyle gets a chance to play with the big kids (or the hurt ones). They had their first game in Ogemaw on Monday. They did alright and won (always so much to learn). Gregg got his teaching assignment for this fall. He'll be split between three schools this year (always subject to change of course). He'll be at Wilson (the school by us) all day on Thursdays, then Long Rapids (maybe 10 min from us, and out of town) two mornings for a couple of classes, and then at Lincoln (his primary school) the rest of the time. He's sure it will work out fine.

I'm doing well. Probably more excited for school to start then Kyle is. It's fun, going to the open house, getting the paperwork for school, class list, items needed, schedules.. I love that stuff! I don't look forward to sending Jack back to daycare every day, but one of his favorite workers is a long-termer so she'll be there almost every day to help him (and me) through it! Work is fine, we survived state survey, and are now fixing the things they searched high and low for (it's amazing what they pick a part to find).

Saturday we plan on attending an air show at the base. We're all looking forward to it. It'll be 3 hours long, and I heard one of the pilots of an f-16 on the radio say that Alpena is one of the best set-ups they have seen for a show. I think it'll be great! Alpena hasn't had one in 20+ years and it's all free with plenty of time to see the planes on the ground. It should be a nice weekend (despite potential rain).