And Then There Were 2

Alex has been going to school for about 2 weeks now and today was Dominic's first day back. I've been excited for the kids to go back but then when they go I'm so sad!! So it's a bittersweet day here at home. The good thing though is since it's Dominic's first day, it's orientation day so I'm getting ready to head up there with the other 2 and hang out for awhile. Dominic woke up at 7 am and ran straight to the toilet and told me to get his clothes! Then he ate 2 waffles for breakfast and drank a big glass of milk. Then he ran to the door looking for the bus. He is so excited about going to school at "Alex's school" this year. He's in 4 yr Pre K but he's still on an IEP so the specialists from his old school will come over, pull him out of class to work with him. He won't go back to school again till Thursday so the next 2 days will be hard for him. I'm sure he'll be mad when Alex leaves and he doesn't!

We didn't do much this weekend but hang out at home. Saturday morning was busy. We've been doing Share Colorado so we all drove at 7:30 to pick up our food but found out because of fog the truck was WAY late. Like 2 hours which made it hard to get Alex to Soccer practice at 10 am on time since Dave had to work. After Soccer we ran home, grabbed Alex's swim suit, then ran her to a birthday party (a hour late since soccer was over 1 hr long!) The day would have been much easier if Daddy was around. He supposedly doesn't have to work another saturday till Sept 22 though. After all the rushing Saturday morning we stuck around the house for the rest of the day.
Alex is on the right in the pink shirt.

Sunday we went to church. This is a shot I took before we left. It is just too hard to get them all to look or even look NORMAL for that matter! The boys are all about making funny faces.
After that we were home again for the rest of the day! We played outside a bit with Echo and the dogs. My dad stopped by and fixed Damien's toddler bed since that siderail was backwards. It looks alot better now! I'm so glad he's a woodworker! Here's some other pics...

Horsey kisses Feeding Echo
Alex pointing at some of our reject apples. For some reason our apples are always so small! I've ate one, it tasted fine but you'd have to eat about 4-5 to make a snack! When they all fall, I'll probably just give them all to Echo to eat.
We hunted down locusts in the trees last night which was fun. They are screaming so loud right now it's hard to talk outside. After they all shed their skin we'll go see how many we can find on the trees. Gross but fun! lol

Alex after nailing a soccer ball. She really likes soccer! Much harder than Machine Pitch though she says.
Wild flowers are growing all over. Remember our Pot? Well I didn't take any pics but we have a ton again this year. lol

Swimming Lessons.......Check

We've completed yet another thing on the To-Do list this summer. We'll be finishing up Damien's school playgroup soon, taking a little vacation, starting back into gymnastics, and then it's back to school! Alexzandra has to take Level 2 over but Dominic passed in the first 3 days we had class. LOL By the third day his teacher said he should be in Level 1 and not the preschool class.

Alexzandra doing the back stroke

Talking with her new friends in her class
Dominic's teacher lining up hula hoops for them to swim through...
And there he goes!!! My little Minnow!
The babies were a bit bored. Damien always fights because he wants to run all over the place. They have a baby playground with the baby pool that he loves.
The little Graduate

The pool, Dominic is about 1 inch from being able to go down the slides. He's been begging everyday of lessons if he can go down them.
Since it was lessons only, the big playground thing in the water wasn't turned on. He was kinda sad. That red thing he's grabbing is a water gun.
Walking with his hoop after going down under for it. He flew out of the slide so fast I totally missed the shot. lol
I'm not sure what Alex was doing here. Looks alittle bewildered.
Another of my purdy little girl! Ahh! I can't believe she's 6 months now! She's wearing an outfit of Alexzandra's when she was little but Alex was walking when she wore it!!! It's 12 months and she's so big it fits perfectly on her. The top is a halter tank. lol

No Gellin is going to keep the kids from compellin with their melons on how to be felons. I really need to talk to Ellen.

I seriously have doubts about my ability to keep the kids from killing one another this summer or from turing this house into a disaster zone. 12 weeks of reeking havoc (smelly descruction?) is what I'm expecting. All Dominic and Alex do is tease each other when they are together and Damien and Dominic seem to love taking each others toys causing major meltdowns. Mia just laughs and jumps in the exersaucer with excitement even though she has no idea yet that they are just being B A D. So, even though the house is up for sale and we could end up moving at any time, I'm going to go ahead and start enrolling the kids in the camps and programs they've got going on around here. I've already got Dominic in T-ball and Alex in Machine Pitch. Dominic will stay in gymnastics but Alex is being such a big baby again I'm not putting her in it. Damien has playgroup once a week to help with his speech and social skills. There's quite the selection on keeping your kids active and busy all summer and I'm one mom who's going to keep on top of that. lol I'll be driving several places probably each day. What? Oh it's $3.25 for a gallon of gas you say? I'll pay it just to keep my freakin sanity.