It has been a little while since I posted. I took these pictures over the weekend. I hope you enjoy them.
It is so fun to watch Ryan play basketball. He LOVES it and it is really building his confidence.
I thought this was a cool shot of Danny. It looks like his new basketball shoes are working great. As a side note: Mike and I bought him these shoes last weekend on our date night. When we all got up on Saturday morning, Ryan had taken marker and ballpoint pen, and written "R's" all over Danny's brand new shoes. Good for Ryan's handwriting practice...Bad for Danny's shoes. I spent about an hour of the morning scrubbing and coaxing out the ink. After nail polish, laundry detergent, dishwasher detergent, magic eraser and rubbing alcohol, I was able to fade the writing enough to where Danny wasn't devastated.
It has been really fun to watch Nathan's team play. He is number 24. Last week his coach named him Defensive Player of the Game. Way to go Nathan!
On Sunday morning I decided it was time to trim up Lydia's hair. This will have been her first REAL haircut. Her first haircut was from her helpful older brother. Good for Ryan's fine motor coordination...Bad for Lydia's hair. Anyhow, since the top is slowly starting to grow back in, I decided to bring up the bottom a little...well I thought it was a little.
When you brushed out Lydia's waves they were all the was down her back, but really thin because of her previous "haircut". I was so worried that once I cut off her darling, perfect ringlets that Lydia would have straight hair from that moment on.
I adore Lydia's smile.
Lydia's hair ended up a little shorter than I had planned. But the reason her hair ended up this short is she still has ALL her curls!! So fun.And now Lydia and I are off to spend some time with my sister in San Diego. I hope you are all doing well.
Nathan had a game first thing yesterday morning.
Directly following Nathan's game, and in a different location, Ryan had his first official basketball game. This is his team trying to do some warm-ups. I do have to say I was pretty impressed with his five-year-old form.
Nathan really was wanting to be something funny this year, rather than "cool." His original idea was to be a duck, but when he did not find success in fitting into any of the toddler duck costumes, he settled on a gorilla.
This is Danny as Jango Fett. He had to explain to me several times who this Star Wars character was. Danny thought it was pretty cool that one of the boys down the street was was dressing up as Boba Fett, Jango Fett's father...Who knew?
Ryan love, loves his toy race tracks and so it seemed natural that he would want to be a Race Car Driver.
Lydia has been saying for 2 months that she wanted to be a Pink Butterfly for Halloween. For some silly reason I was determined that she looked like a true butterfly...not a fairy, or a fairy princess, or a butterfly princess. There was only one door where the woman handing out candy said, "You make such a cute fairy!" I didn't shout from the dark street, "She's a Butterfly, A Pink Butterfly!," though I wanted to. :)
The weather was fairly temperate when we arrived so the first couple of days the kids played in the common area together. Some of us also played tennis. This is a picture of the kids at the High Desert Museum. It was a really neat place with interactive exhibits and also many areas that had animals native to the area.
The townhouse we stayed in was plenty big for all of us. It had a warm fireplace and comfortable beds. While the weather was tolerable we enjoyed the community swimming pool and the hot tub. This is a picture of Ryan doing his cannon ball. I was pretty impressed with his form! I think my dad is yelling something like: "Cannon BAAAALLL!"
My mom cuddled Lydia and watched Princess Sing-Along while Mike and I took the older boys for a dip in the hot tub. It was cool to look around and see all of the snow. All of the boys gladly took Mike's dare to make snow angels and then jump back in the water.
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