First Day of Kindergarten

OK.. you can tell that I haven't uploaded pictures from my camera in a while. This is a picture of Adam's first day of Kindergarten. Kindergarten with Adam doesn't seem so intense because he did Transitional Kindergarten last year. Transitional Kindergarten is for children with special needs. They study the kindergarten curriculum but in very small class with a couple of aides to help. He had a great year last year, and now is in the top of his class academically. Of course, he's a year behind other kids his age, but he has a summer birthday, so it's not that big a difference. He is really making progress, so I'm hoping that most of the developmental delay was maturity. We also just found out that he needs glasses, so hopefully glasses will also help the situation.

Funny Video & Gross Story and other miscellaneous stuff

I took this video of Emma and Josh (see post on Saturday Swimming) and Emma thought it was so fun that she had him dump her about 10 more times. The one time I didn't have the camera on was the funniest. Josh tossed Emma into the tube and she rocked back too far and flipped over backwards. Funny stuff. Stef and Josh, thanks so much for inviting us. We had a great time. We'll have to do it again next summer!

The gross story is about Jon. (I know, you aren't surprised.) He came up to me the other day and said, "Look Mom, a spider." He had a dead spider in his hand. Then before I could react, he popped it in his mouth. "Yuck!" he exclaimed and spat it out. *sigh* I could have told him that.

OK, I am waiting for the video to download, so I will add some of the other items. Braden and Adam are both playing soccer. Braden's team is undefeated so far. Adam's team has tied most of their games, and only lost one, but it was a doozy (0-8).

Braden has decided to join the 6th grade orchestra. He's really excited about it, and I'm not so sure how excited we will be after a year of practicing. *puts in the ear plugs* When I studied music education at Boise State, I had to take a String Techniques class and I had to learn to play the violin. That was scary and I was a grown-up.

Saturday Swimming

A couple of Saturdays ago, we went to Herriman to spend the afternoon with Stef, Josh and the kids. We had a great time. Emma proved herself to be our water daredevil.

Arrow of Light

Congrats to Braden for earning the Arrow of Light, the highest award in cub scouting. We are so proud of you! He earned 19 of the twenty activity badges as well.

First Day of School - Wednesday

Off we go to the first day of school!

This is the Place Heritage Park

We took the family to Salt Lake yesterday for a day at the Pioneer Village at This is the Place Heritage Park. It was a really fun time. People in costume "live" there and you can go to all the different buildings and learn what it was like to be a pioneer. The kids wanted to know when we could go back again.

A day in Salt Lake City

We spent the day in Salt Lake City. We took the kids to the Oquirrh Mountain temple Open House. It was just beautiful, and the best was Jon-Jon singing "Jesus wants me for a sunbeam" all the way through the celestial room. *sigh*

After the temple visit, we went to Target and to Sweet Tomatoes for an early dinner. Sweet Tomatoes is our favorite buffet restaurant and there isn't one in Utah County.

After Sweet Tomatoes, we went to IKEA where we discovered that we were out of diapers and that I had left the baby wipes in the bathroom in Target. Fortunately for us, IKEA keeps free diapers and wipes in the bathrooms. Of course, the diapers are size 3 and Jon-Jon is in size 6, so it was a tight fit, but by golly, it worked.

On our way home, we stopped by Mom and Dad Ferrin's house for a visit. Mom made bread with the kids and convinced Adam that to keep his little rolls rising safely on the trip home, that he would have to be very quiet. Eric and I couldn't help laughing at poor Adam's attempts to keep his brothers and sister quiet so that his "sleeping" bread to make it home to the oven in safety. I think it was the quietest that he's been in months.

Good times.