Sweet Ryan

I came home one evening to our wall decorated with Spiderman stickers and post-it notes from Ryan. Click on this picture to see Ryan (heart) Mom. Ahhhhh.....he's so sweet! They've been on the wall for about a week now and I just don't want to take them down yet! :-)

Pee Wee Soccer

After several years of watching her brother from the sidelines Jessica finally has her chance to play a sport. Today was her first day of Pee Wee soccer. It's a league of co-ed teams consisting of 3 & 4 year old kids. The teams have an official coach but parent assistance is also required. It's very cute - they turn drills into games so the kids have fun. Today they had to dribble the ball and then kick it at the coach while he was running from them on his hands & knees!! Yep, the idea here is to HIT the coach with the ball. 15 kids, 15 soccer balls all trying to hit one 30 year old man!! The kids were all laughing hysterically and half of them (including Jess) were picking up their ball and throwing it at the coach!! After about 2-3 drills they play a little 4 on 4 on a very small field. The kids, of course, score on the wrong goal, or forget to kick the ball or just stand there & wave at their parents as Jess did today (cute!).

Here is picture of Jessica kicking it in the goal - as you can see she doesn't quite get that she can't touch the ball with her hands. Future goalie?? Oh, and the little boy next to Jess is scowling at Ryan because he was wearing a Ben 10 watch and thought Ryan wanted to take it from him.

Here's Jess waiting on the sidelines for her rotation into the game.

Kindergarten

Our little boy is officially a Kindergartener! The first day of school was today, and except for the loooong wait for the school bus, everything went very smoothly. Ryan was very excited to start school and thankfully that didn't change after he found out how things work at school. It's hard to see the shear excitement in him in these pictures, but believe me, he was excited. In fact, he looks downright casual here:


Here he is with his new school-bus partners, twins Olivia and Robbie, first graders who know all about that bus-riding stuff. No, the backpack wasn't too heavy for him, he just looks like he's struggling with it. This is after the bus was about 20 minutes late, and he was getting a little tired of waiting. Patience isn't always his strong suit. Of course, Jess couldn't resist getting in on the fun too, but she was very accepting of the fact that it was Ryan's day.

Here he is with his new table buddies before school started. As you can see, there were no tears or "seperation anxiety", unlike his mommy, who couldn't see how the picture came out through the tears. But she made it through OK.