LEGO MANIA
I've been waiting to update the blog until I had something other than the weather to talk about - well it's been a few weeks now and the weather is still the only thing to really talk about. I don't think there's been a day we have not had rain. We went from 80 degrees to 45 degrees overnight. Typically the day starts bright and beautiful. Enough brightness to wake the kids up around 6 am (you can see from below poor Jim isn't as awake as his bed guests). Then about 4:32 pm as I am driving home from work a storm roles in. We were at an outside mall ten minutes before a tornado landed, rolled cars and destroyed the exterior of stores, windows, etc. We went to the Rocky game on Sunday only to be evacuated during the 5th inning for a tornado warning and rain (this one didn't touch down).
I was also hoping to report the loss of a first tooth. Kellan's so close to losing his bottom tooth, but of course that hasn't even happened yet. He's getting restless to be done with kindergarten (6-23). His last swimming lesson was today and he will be starting the next level in a couple of weeks. T-Ball started (though half the practices have been rained out). Jim is managing his team this year. It's not so much t-ball. Each kid gets 5 overhand pitches pitched to them (by Jim) and if the kid does not hit one of those, then he/she gets to hit it off the T. We like it when all the kids hit the first pitch - otherwise can make for a very long game (13 kids per team times 5 pitches each). Kellan is still a star batter, but needs work on catching and throwing.
As for Zoe, she remains Kellan's shadow - if not dressing like him, wanting to do everything he does. She's still beating him up. Zoe starts pre-school in Aug and is excited to go out and buy a back pack. We also signed both of them up for soccer at the end of the summer.
Dexter continues to grow, larger and larger. More and more people are saying I'm getting bigger. I like to correct them and say "don't you mean HE's getting bigger?" (little bit of denial on my part).
Jim's friend Chris and his son Caden (born a day after Kellan at Hoag in NB Beach) came out for a visit. The boys all had a great weekend together - playing legos, going to the dinosaur museum, Garden of the Gods and the Rockies game (see below for pictures).
We're looking forward to Jenna's wedding and family coming into town on 6/25. Otherwise work has been crazy for me (7 weeks and counting) and of course Jim is crazy with all the kid's activities.
Love us.
