So it has been over a month since I was on here! I completely did not realize that much time had passed. We are completely immersed into school, religious ed classes, tennis, dance, cub scouts and all that comes along with those. We are very busy and I guess that makes time fly by at an alarming pace. Christmas is just around the corner....anyway we have and a few new happenings around our crazy house.
Jack has started Cub Scouts and absolutely loves everything about it! He and John had their first camp out last weekend and John came home as the new Den leader...imagine that...my husband volunteering for another thing! He had to take an all-day training seminar yesterday where he learned lots of chants, songs, rules, and how to lead an interesting hike and how to make and bake in a box oven. I'm most excited about seeing my handsome hubby in a uniform...heehee...now he and Jack will both look like Beaver Cleaver! Jack is hot and heavy back into tennis...practicing 6 + hours a week and playing in league matches on Sundays. Little dude is only 7 years old and is getting good. I'm as excited to watch him as he is to play. We did have our first tennis catastrophe last week. As Jack was serving, his $100 tennis racket flew out of his hand and smacked the ground cracking the racket through. John and I both agreed we couldn't be angry since he was serving and not goofing off but DANG!! My mom made a great point when she said he could pay us back when he wins Wimbledon :)
Miss Molly is loving school and has made tons of new friends...quite a few of the boy type : ) She received her first love note full of colorful hand drawn hearts on the 2nd week of school. We are gonna have to keep this one on a tight leash as she gets older...she is so stinking pretty! To add to her adorableness, she had to get glasses this past week. As most of you know she had eye surgery at 18 months to correct "lazy eye." Since then I would notice her right eye turn in when she was tired or crying. I have been noticing it turning more frequently in the past couple of months so I took her to the eye doctor. She now is at the "peak" of the farsightedness that all kids have, but because her eyes have a predisposition to turn in anyway, they are doing so as she tries to focus. The doctor predicted that she would need them until about 9 or 10 years old, but seeing as my whole family and John are as blind as bats I won't be surprised if she never outgrows her need for ocular assistance :) (did you like that fancy term...I thought it was pretty impressive) ;) I have pictures of her in the glasses but they are on my phone and I don't know how to get them off. I'll post pics of all the kids soon!
Sophie and Macy are funny and happy. They LOVE school, dance class, and have starting composing original operas! Macy continues to have not one shy bone in her body and will perform for anyone she can make eye contact with. The flip side of this outgoingness is that she will tell people exactly what is on her mind no matter if it is appropriate or not! A couple of examples are her telling Jack's tough tennis coach "Coach Billy, you have a big head!" and telling a heavy-set cashier at Harris Teeter "You're a big, giant girl!" Luckily both people were very sweet about it and found Macy to be utterly cute so no harm was done I suppose (other than Mommy being COMPLETELY MORTIFIED)! We had lots of talks about what is nice and not nice to say to people :)
Speaking of lots of talks...about 2 weeks into school, Sophie went through a week long phase of pinching her friends at school (it was actually 1 little boy who my mom was convinced was starting it...thanks for your confidence in my baby girl mom but I'm sure it was SOPHIE :) ). After talking to her CONSTANTLY about not pinching her friends (even whispering in her ear as I was dropping her off "no pinching today") the pinching stopped, but I think I scarred her for life. It has been weeks and every day when I pick the girls up Sophie runs out the door and exclaims "Mommy, I no pinch today!!" I told her she didn't have to say that because I know she is a good girl and why didn't she say "Mommy I missed you today!" instead but sadly no...she still tells me everyday that she didn't pinch and I'm sure it will happen every day until the end of the year. I certainly learned my lesson and will "back off" next time and let Ms. Debbie handle it. I just didn't want my kid to be the "bad kid" in class! But as I told John, with 4 kids, the odds that 1 of them will be "that kid" are pretty high :)
John has been ridiculously busy at work and planning / constructing a haunted house from the ground up with Uncle Mark. Park Avenue Properties is starting a Haunted House this year to benefit local animal shelters. Check out the website
http://www.hauntedhouselkn.com/
As for me, I'm beyond busy with work, kids and their stuff, husband and his stuff, trying to figure out when I'm going to train for this 1/2 marathon (what was I thinking), etc. But when I think about how this year started out I am so thankful that I am here and busy and healthy and that my family is happy and healthy and growing...life is crazy good ;)
