Tidbits

I forgot to mention the other day when I posted about Zach's friends coming over that he had a little incident with his bike. It was early in the playdate and he was pushing his bike, not riding it, when he somehow flipped over the handlebars and landed on his face! I'm not quite sure how he did it. He cried (well, actually screamed) for a few minutes then went back to pushing his bike. The boo boos on his nose didn't show up till about an hour later.

I took that picture after nap since I forgot to take one before. It very quickly healed and by the following Sunday you would never have known about it.

Last weekend it was beautiful out, not like this weekend, so we spent a lot of time outside. Kristin was making sure he didn't get any boo boos this time and put elbow and knee pads on him.

For some strange reason he actually enjoys pushing his bike.

Kristin looking cute in her sunglasses.

He's still wearing his helmet and elbow pads to play softball.

Last Sunday we went over to Grandma and PopPop's house for dinner and saw all the family. Here's Lauren being silly while she's holding Alex.

Kelly was playing around with Zach.

It was nice to see everyone especially after this harsh winter and not getting out that much. Hopefully that will all change soon with the warm weather coming.

Lauren's 1st High School game

Her very first high school soccer game was yesterday and she told me the day before after practice that she thought she would be starting. After picking Megan up a little early from school we got there a little before start time. I'm so glad I made it too because I didn't know that they announced the starting players. So they begin announcing and they called quite a few names (I wasn't counting, just seemed like a lot) and just when I thought she wouldn't start there it was, her name and number was announced. I guess she was the last one because she was a freshman.

She told me afterwards that that was the best part of the game! Since she was the last one she got to run out and high five the rest of the starting team.

Not only did she start but she stayed in almost the whole first half. She came out for a couple of minutes to put her mouth guard in, she had forgotten it, but then went right back in.

At the half her team was winning, 5-0.

I had to include this picture. For some reason I seem to always get goofy looking shots of her.

She started the second half too and within a few minutes she scored her first goal! It was an easy shot, the goalie was out and it was an open net, but nevertheless it was a goal. Then two minutes later she assisted for yet another goal. I knew she really wanted to score in her first game and she did. I was so happy for her!

After that she was taken out so some of the other players could get a chance to play too. They ended the game winning with a score of 7-0.

It was a great first game for her. She started on varsity, got announced and even scored. Yay!

She did it!

Lauren made varsity as a freshman. Woohoo! It took her coach long enough to tell them, I think all the other schools have known for at least a week. Of course her coach had to tell them either today or tomorrow because their first game is this Wednesday.

Her uniform colors are yellow and black:

The yellow one fits her nice but the black one is an extra large. Being that she's one of two freshman she got to choose her uniform last. Oh well, maybe next year she'll actually have a better chance to get a uniform that fits. I'm just excited that she made varsity!

Fun with Friends

We finally got together with Annie and G (and new baby Elizabeth) today. We hadn't seen them since December! Zach was so excited that they were coming over and kept looking out the front door for their car this morning.

When they did get here they had so much fun playing together. They went outside and played on the deck, rode their bikes (they brought theirs) and then came inside to play. I didn't even think of grabbing the camera until they were inside. Here's Zach playing cars with Annie.
What cute little bunnies! Zach very nicely let G have the blue bunny ears, what a gentleman.

They were having so much fun we just couldn't let it end so they stayed for lunch and then they went back to playing. During all their playing little Elizabeth was such a good baby, just taking it all in. Can't wait to play with them again.

We're trying to win tickets...

...to go see Elmo. A local radio station has a coloring contest going on and they're picking 2 entries per day all this week. The winners get a 4-pack of tickets. So far we haven't won, 2 more days and 4 more chances to have one of the kids names drawn.

I checked the radio stations website to see if the winner's names were listed (they weren't) but they have posted some (or maybe all) of the entries. I was surprised when I saw my kids pictures on there!

Just a warning, even though it was a coloring contest the winners are not necessarily the ones that color the best. It stated in their rules that they randomly choose the winners from all the entries. So, Megan and Kristin just hurriedly colored theirs (the contest was for ages 2 - 13). I only had them do it so I had 2 more chances to win!

Zach's picture.

Megan's picture.

Kristin's picture.

I guess Kristin forgot that Elmo is red! Good thing they're not judging by how accurate they are or none of them would have a chance. Wish us luck! If we don't win maybe I'll buy tickets and take Zach myself, just him and I. I'm sure he would love it.

Yep, we're still around...

I know, I know. I haven't been updating like I should but really there has not been much going on to write about.

Lauren has started soccer with both her school and her travel team. The school one has been keeping her busy every day after school and she's played in one scrimmage game already with them. Her coach hasn't determined who's on varsity or JV yet but Lauren has been playing and practicing with the varsity. Hopefully he decides soon!

This morning she had her second scrimmage game with her travel team. During the first half it just drizzled but during the second half it downpoured on them. Her hands and arms were so cold when it was over. I had the heat cranked up in the car on the way home to the point that I was hot but she was still shivering. Great, she's just getting over bronchitis, now I guess she'll have pneumonia. I can't believe her team even played in weather like this.

What's a post without pictures? Zach has been a big helper around the house lately. Here he is making brownies for us for dessert one night. He starts by mixing the batter by hand:

Then moves on to using the electric mixer:

After the brownies have baked and cooled and cut into star shapes he then ices them:

They were delicious too! I think only one star brownie was leftover. Not sure if you can tell or not but he was getting mad at me because I wouldn't take the mixer back. He had to wait till I got his picture first, silly boy, he should know that by now.

On one of those warm days last week I took him outside to ride his new bike he got for Christmas. Before he could do that though he saw his little snow shovel sitting there and said he had to "shovel a little bit." Sure, go for it! So he shovelled what was left of the snow. I hope he's still this enthusiastic about shovelling when he gets older!

I never did get a picture of him riding his bike. He's not very good at pedalling and I tried to help him but he kept telling me he wanted daddy to do it. Well okay then. If we ever get a non-rainy weekend I guess Paul will have to help him and then maybe I can get a picture.

At preschool they've been talking about different people in the community. Last Thursday they talked about chefs and the kids got to make their own snack. When I picked him up from class he was wearing this chef's hat so I put it on him while he was helping daddy with dinner that night.

He really likes to cook so I guess we'll have to do more of that this summer.