Soccer Season

It is an exciting time to be almost six. Braden, has been in heaven these last few weeks as one of his dreams has now come true...to play his favorite sport...SOCCER! This kid is a fanatic and is already showing some talent. He loves getting out on the field and runs like a mad-man out there. On his first day of practice, even though I know I offered enough water, he must have suffered a little heat stoke and ended up not feeling well and eventually throwing up. His coach has been wonderful. She doesn't have a kid on the team but plays competitively and wants to inspire kids to love soccer just as much as she does.

Braden's first game was this last weekend and his season will continue until the second week in November. The game was super fun to watch and Braden did so well. He moved along the field wonderfully and nearly made a goal 4 times, each time just barely missing. I'm sure in the coming weeks he'll get it in.
 

Rewind: First Day of School

It happened. It really happened. Braden is now a Kindergartener! Honestly, I was ready for this day. I didn't think I would be, but I was. I didn't even cry, well, maybe one or two tears. I blame the pregnancy hormones for that. Brady was ready too. He couldn't wait; he made a calendar to count down the days.
We chose to send Braden to Pinecrest Academy, a new charter school here in Henderson. I feel very blessed by the events that lead us to this school. The schools in Henderson are good, but there are also some that are not. With our recent move, the elementary school that Braden would have gone to was one of the not so good ones. I remember back in February not being sure if I was making the right choice by choosing Pinecrest, mostly because at the time I was deciding between it and an international school where Brady would be part of a Spanish immersion program. In the end, I felt prompted that Pinecrest was the right choice and now I understand why.
Braden loved his first day of school; he didn't even say goodbye to me when I dropped him off, and when he came home he was all smiles!

A week later was Carter's first day of Preschool. One of my friends here is a teacher and teaches a two-day a week school out of here home. She is amazing and Carter loves her. He is learning so much and always has so much to say about what he's learning each day at school.

Big Boys and Jesus

I finally moved the boys into new car-seats. Braden finally reached 40 pounds so I moved him into a booster seat and moved Carter into Braden's old seat. Carter loves that he now has his own cup holder.

On Sunday, Brady was drawing several pictures and then brought this one to me asking if I knew who it was. He gave me the hint that it was his most favorite person. My first guess was his Dad, but I was wrong. "No Mom. The person I love the very mostest and who loves me!" 

If you guessed Jesus, you would be right. Too bad I had to have Braden tell me who it was, duh!

Olympic Fever

My boys have been super excited about the Olympics. I thought for sure they might think it would be boring to watch "a grown-up show." Instead, they have really gotten into it and want to stay up late just to watch. So far their favorite thing to watch is the swimming and diving. It's been fun to see Braden and Carter cheering on the USA and their new favorite athlete, Michael Phelps.

While swimming last night at the pool Braden, with Bo's help, taught himself to do this:
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Carter has also become a braver swimmer by putting his head under the water to swim!
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Scissors

I was pretty sure I would never have a child do this. I mean, I've been super careful about when the boys can use scissors and I'm always around when they have them. It doesn't help that big brother decided to cut a small chunk out of Carter's hair a few days earlier with some scissors that we were using while working at the new house. I guess Carter thought that if big brother could do it then he, the little brother, could too.