Gwyn Writing

I love kindergarten. The kids all start to write and put down thoughts. I kept all the daily writing the from the boys, and have been looking forward to Gwyn's. Here is something she brought home a few weeks ago. She is such a different reader and writer from the boys. She sounds out words more, and she is writing more. Here is one of the first sentences that she has ever written!

Although it looks like murder, she actually wrote "I am a writer." And her book says "This is my book."

Funny conversation: last night Gwyn asked my why her name was not spelled Gwen. I told her that her name was actually pronounced like an i, not and e. So she asked why letter the y is stealing from. (As Gwyn explains it: "The letter y steals from the letter i and e. So make sure when you say "my" you say the letter i put write the letter y.")<- about="" all="" and="" because="" being="" br="" confused="" cute.="" extra="" gwen.="" gwyn="" have="" her="" i="" if="" incorrectly.="" is="" it="" just="" kind="" me="" name="" not="" of="" others="" pretty="" say="" she="" spell="" talk="" that.="" the="" think="" told="" was="" wondered="" would="">

Halloween Part 3

A few more pictures!

Gwyn and I both dressed up a witches. She wanted a picture of us. I think she is part zombie.

The house with our new decorations. We also had Halloween music playing on the front porch. This year Kevin was old enough to walk around with his friends without adults. They basically walked from Alex's house down to ours, came in for drinks and a break, then walked back up to Alex's hitting different houses. Colin walked around with his friend Owen and Owen's parents. He had a lot of fun. He got a bunch of big bars. We had Owen's little sister Katelyn to walk with Gwyn, but she got scared once it was dark. It was pretty cute.

Here is my pumpkin (Deathly Hallows) and Colin's (Winter Soldier's arm).

Gwyn's face and Kevin's Pokeman thing.

Fall Soccer

Gwyn was on her first soccer team in the fall. Kevin was her coach. In the fall, she spent most of the time giggling talking to her dad. (She is currently in Spring soccer, and doing much better.) My friend Leah's daughter is also on the team, so Leah had matching hair bows made.

The best team photo we have! Gwyn is hiding her face behind her trophy.

My dad (Pop) brought one of his dogs to the game. Colin was in heaven.

I had the camera at one of Kevin's games. I tried to get pictures, most of which were not good. Here he took a shot and the goalie stopped it....

...where Kevin then scored when it bounced away. He is in the light blue in the middle bending over celebrating.

Colin made me promise not to take pictures at his game. So the only photo I have of him is a group shot with the kids and Braeden.

Catching-up begins....

I have been a bit busy over the past few months (trying to take down Thrive St. Louis with others and get them out of public schools and all). But the sad part is that so many great things have happened. So I am going back to October to catch up.

To get started, here are a few random pictures off the camera.

A moment between brothers, talking about Pokeman.

I think* this was the first time Gwyn put a Lego set together completely alone. She has done some nearly alone, but this was 100% her!

After dinner the night they have clown's at McAlister's.

Kindergarten Life

Gwyn has been so tired lately. About 3 times a week she will put herself down to sleep. Sometimes it is before 5:00, sometimes it is right after dinner. She is just so sleepy. I will wake her for dinner, and sometimes she gets up to eat. Sometimes she wanders downstairs around 8 pm looking for food with messy hair and a sleepy face. Other times she will sleep until morning. I snapped one picture so I could remember it. Usually she is in her own bed, though.

Halloween Throw-back

2010

Halloween Part 2

I just really want to remember this story.

Gwyn wore her Halloween costume to school for their Fall party. As I was helping her get dressed in the morning, she mentioned that her tights looked like she was wearing shorts. She said that the next time she has dance class, she can wear only her tights, and no shorts. I was just trying to get her dressed and all the kids out the door, so I didn't correct her. I just said "uh huh"and kept going.

(She was talking about the black part at the top of tights wear there is no pattern or sparkles. But they are still tights. And shear.)

Well, I got a text from her teacher. She said that Gwyneth was hot and asked to take off her dress during the party. She said she had shorts on underneath, and the teacher agreed. After about 20 minutes, Miss Glenn said that Gwyn walked past her and she saw Gwyn's underwear. That is when it occurred to her that Gwyn was NOT wearing shorts, but rather just her tights. At that point the party was almost over., so she just went with it. But she did get a picture for me. And it is ADORABLE!

Halloween

Yes, it is December, but I still want Halloween pictures up

Sadly, these are the only pictures I have of the kids this year. The first is their serious photo. Kevin is a Knight Terror, Colin is the Winter Soldier, and Gwyn is a witch. The second picture is the silly picture. I feel like Kevin won that one.

It was a really good Halloween. Kevin went up the street to walk around with friends. It was the first year he walked around without an adult. But one of the other moms stalked them a bit. I knew she would. :) She also gave her son his dad's iPhone, which had a tracker in it. She could look up the phone on a map and locate the boys at any time. And the neighborhood next to ours has so many trick or treaters, many of whom come from other neighborhoods. And there are lots of parents who sit in their garages or have fire pits in the driveway. So I felt like it was a good year for Kevin to get the freedom. Basically, they walked from Alex's house to our house and back.

Colin walked around with his friend Owen, who just moved a few houses away. So the only child we had for the evening was Gwyneth, and we invited Owen's little sister to join us. Gwyn stayed out longer than Kaitlin, longer than she ever has! So Kevin and I got to take turns passing out candy.

We are determined to get trick or treaters to our house. We had all kinds of decorations and lights up, and had spooky music playing on the front porch. We even passed out full size candy bars. But still we can not get kids to our house. We are on a side street that has about half the houses passing out candy. It is disappointing, but Kevin made up for it by sneaking up and scaring our neighbors. :)