I know, I know, I've been slacking on the blogging front and the last couple have been all about Owen so I decided that I would update about everyone this time. (What you don't know is that it took me over a week to do this one post.)
Here goes...I'll start with the youngest. Owen is doing awesome!!! He walks, runs, and jumps and other than a small limp after a lot of activity and 3 scars you can hardly tell he broke his leg. He is scheduled to go in on July 19th to have the rods taken out and the few times I've tried talking to him about getting them out he says they can't come out because...no reason just because. He is crazy cute and crazy stubborn and his current thing is to cover his eyes when you tell him not to do something or if he his mad at you,as if it makes him invisible or something. His favorite statement right now is "Don't talk to me!!!" He knows the entire alphabet and few of their sounds, he can call grandma all by himself at home and work, and even recognizes a few words thanks to Baby Can Read. Since I started writing this post he started reading a book called Max's Breakfast and I have only had to help him with a few words. (See video on facebook to hear him reading it)
Matthew is crazy...just crazy!!! He is a pain in my neck a lot of the time but he will just belt out "I love you Mommy" and my heart melts a little. He is so excited to start school next fall and I have the hardest time believing that he is old enough to be in kindergarten. He knows almost all of his letters and numbers up to 10 and he can write his whole name plus some of the other letters. We are hoping he will get the same teacher that Leah had because she is awesome. He loves video games and I determined one day last week that maybe I let him play them a little too much because when he was restricted from playing those games he and Owen used their imaginations to pretend that they were in a video game and they hunted for treasures and coins. Occasionally I would hear them say "pause game, down, down, down, quit game"; I chuckled everytime I heard this, but my favorite was when they would go into the closet, count to eleven (not ten but eleven), and then come out and pretend they were on a new level.
Leah has given me a new appreciation for that statement "7 going on 20". She gets so convinced that she is right about stuff and can't stand to admit that she may have been wrong and this next statement is for those that knew me when I was younger...I know she gets that from me. She did very well in school and reads at a 3rd, almost 4th, grade reading level; but as much as she enjoyed going to school, she is very excited that her summer break has started. She is growing up so fast and has started forming her own opinions about music, life, and just about everything in between. I cannot really figure out what she is into because it changes almost daily...but one thing that stays consistent is drawing and writing.
Jeff and I certainly have our hands full with the three of them plus our own stuff, Jeff with his work, still at Comcast, and me with my school. I recently started taking online courses through University of Phoenix to get my Bachelors in Education so that I can start my teaching career. We have tons of fun things planned for the summer, including but not limited to BBQ's, a trip to an indoor water park and an outdoor one, exploring regular parks, and free movies and bowling. I am doing this summer different than the last few and have actually planned out most of our summer so hopefully I won't hear "I'm bored" as much this year.
The next post will have pictures with some of the activites we have already been up to and maybe some video if I can figure out how to get them on here.
