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Pear Shaped Thoughts

I've been following this blog for quite some time now and I couldn't even tell you how I got started. It might have been my friend's wife. I read her family blog which is super cute and hilarious and she linked me to this blog through one of her posts. Now she writes for this amazing blog too! 

Pear Shaped Thoughts is probably my favorite blog to read. I honestly wake up in the morning and get ready for my day by reading their latest post. Its a group of amazingly funny, whitty, smart ladies (two of whom I've actually met, the Aussie happens to be my best friend. You're jealous, go on, admit it. ; ) ) who post about life, what bugs them, what they love, what makes them laugh, funny stories from their lives, etc. Its my daily dose of awesomeness. 

 Just a word to the wise,  if you're not already reading and following this blog, you should be. I love it so I know you'll love it! 

Pear Shaped Thoughts

Enoch

I’ve connected with another Mom at Enoch’s school. Her daughter is in the other kindergarten class but we were coaches together for Odyssey of the Mind.

At the school picnic the other day, we were both chaperoning and sharing fun stories about the year. She told me her favorite was about Enoch. I guess he told his Odyssey coach this,

“I’m half Hawaiian, half Regular.”

AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA! What a goober! The kid seriously cracks me up… a LOT.

Love you Enoch. :D

Enoch is done with Kindergarten!

I cannot believe Enoch is already done with Kindergarten!! He had an awesome first year at school and made so many friends! Enoch is such a friendly person, people and kids just gravitate to him.
He learned SO much at Vanguard, some days he would just baffle me with the things he was learning. He came home one day and told me, "Mom, George Washington is my favorite President because he was the Father of our Country.". So cute! He LOVES math and can't get enough. His favorite teacher was his music teacher, Mr Crowe. Even though he didn't have much choice in joining, he really ended up loving Odyssey of the Mind. He was sort of forced to join since I was one of the coaches. He loved learning golf in PE and his favorite activity was when they held hula hoops and acted like planets orbiting around the gym. They also learned how to hip hop dance! He enjoyed his first field trip to the Museum of Nature & Science. : )

The last day of school they had a huge picnic day for the kids. They played games, got their faces painted, hair braided, they did spin art, lunch, a hula hoop relay race and tons of other fun things. Enoch had a blast. I volunteered as a chaperone so I could hang out with him the whole day. We had a really good time and Enoch's school is just awesome!

Walking from the school to the park.
One of the teacher's from the other Kindergarten class has a friend that makes t-shirts so they made shirts with all the kids' signatures on it! They turned out really cute!

Lunch time!

Signing his name for his teachers.

Drawing an elephant

He felt so cool looking like a tiger!

Enoch & Ryan

Enoch & Erick

Liam, Sebastian, & Enoch

Probably Enoch's closest buds-
Isaac, Iris, Enoch, & Keegan

Enoch's teachers were amazing!!! They were so awesome through Enoch's medical journey this year and he has learned so much from them. I truly believe that learning goes smoother when you know your teacher(s) care for you and Enoch really felt that! He loved his teachers and I know he's going to miss them.
A big thanks to Ms Chadwick and Ms Russo! You guys are the bomb!

Sleeper

Travis is our sleeper. He doesn't like to go to bed, what kid does, but once he's asleep, it's hard to get him up. He has always been a good sleeper, since 7 days old he's slept through the night. He loves to sleep in too which is just lovely compared to Enoch who wakes up at the butt crack of dawn, even when it's not a school day.

Travis is awesome at sleeping but he doesn't nap too often anymore. When and if he does, he falls asleep in random places and even more random positions.

Just to give you an idea...

Love that kid...

happy mothers day

 

What a wonderful Mothers Day! Joe cancelled all of his meetings Sunday morning, which is saying a lot since he’s the Bishop! He made breakfast for everyone, French toast (my favorite), eggs and bacon. YUM! Then he dressed the boys for church. It was a wonderful morning and I felt truly spoiled. We actually got a Mothers Day family photo this year which I was pretty excited about. I missed out on a Easter family photo but this one will work just as well!

 

Happy Mothers day to all the wonderful, beautiful and amazing Mothers I know. I hope you had a wonderful day!

 

painting

For Travis’s birthday, we got him the cool little art easel from Ikea. He’s always wanting to color and draw so I knew it would be perfect for him. He seriously loves it!

So the boys have taken to painting. Have I mentioned how much I love washable Crayola paint? I just adore it. What a wonderful invention!

Enoch was painting trees. :D

Travis’s work of art

So focused and determined.

I think I went inside to make lunch and came back out to get them and I found this…

Enoch was just all giggles and Travis was very focused.

I asked what they were doing and Travis responded, “I’m the Hulk Mom! Enoch is helping me be the Hulk!”

Maybe he’s color blind? There is not a stitch of green on the kid!

Enoch is offering face painting for Halloween! $1 a face!