So I know I haven't posted for two weeks, but what a two weeks it has been. I'm hoping I can finally take a breather and sit back and get my life back to a manageable speed. After my birthday, Grace's birthday, Grace's party, end of year school activities, visit from Kathy, Max & Joey, Grace's "graduation", swim parties, swim classes, the dance recital today, we are finally seeing a light at the end of the tunnel.
For those that haven't heard yet, we did get approval for the transfer for Grace to the public elementary school we wanted her to go to, so it looks like she will NOT end up being a Catholic school girl, which also means our pocketbook will get some relief. Of course, now I need to try to get some signatures from various school administrators on Tuesday and Wednesday to make the transfer final, so I'm not out of the woods yet.
Now I'll try to catch up with a few pictures. Here's some from our family trip to the Ranger game on my birthday.
Ahh, the view from our seats at the game. They were just at the other end of the row from the season tickets Kim and I share with my parents, so this is the view I normally have. It is high (300 level), but it is directly behind home plate so you have a great angle on everything except high pop ups, which look like they are home runs until they land behind the 2
nd baseman. You do get great breezes up here.
Alex enjoys his first baseball game. He did really well - we lasted until about the 6
th inning in our seats. All you need are
hotdogs, french fries, cotton candy and fun music to keep a 2-year
old's attention.
Grace in her new pink Rangers hat that matches her pink Rangers shirt. Her butterfly face paint is left over from the school carnival that morning (oh yeah, one other thing to add to the list of activities from the last two weeks).
The kids like to hit the Coca Cola Sports Park behind
centerfield before we leave. There's only a couple of the games that they can do. This t-ball one is the first one they hit. They also tried a ring toss, but of course didn't get anything out of it. But the best were the temporary tattoos they got there - my kids kept those things on for a week.
Alex takes his turn a the t-ball game. I think Jim had to finally step in to help him hit the ball in the right direction.
My kids playing at the feet of Nolan. It was a wonderful evening.
Here is sweet little Gracie with Miss Andrea and Miss Bettina on her first day of school.
And with apologies to her teachers for taking the picture after the class swim party, here she is showing off her forced "trying-too-hard" smile on the last day. I couldn't have asked for a better class for her to finish preschool with. The most kids they ever had in this class was 10, so they were able to do some really wonderful things with very individualized attention. And Bettina and Andrea were just amazing teachers; very creative and always thinking up great things for the class to do.
Now for some graduation pictures. Here's a great one of Grace with Andy.
Grace with Aidan and Andy - two of her favorite boys. Of course, by the end of the year - especially once the only other girl had moved up north and was attending maybe once a week - ALL the boys had become her favorites.
Grace and Brayden were very insistent I take their picture while they were making these faces. I'm not sure what they were aiming for. They looked a little like chipmunks.
Some very excited soon-to-be graduates.
The entire graduating class. All eight of them.
Me and Grace watching the after-ceremony slide show.
To try to give a little space to Alex, here are two of his favorite classmates this year: twins Kate and Mike. I actually came upon him a few times lying on the floor with Kate reading books looking so sweet.
Alex VERY excited to be standing next to his best friend Donovan. Every day was gauged as being "good" if it was a day he saw Donovan, or "not good" if he didn't. And I couldn't get Alex to take a picture this final day of school until I said "let's take one with Donovan", and as you can see he was all smiles after that.
Giving Donovan a big hug goodbye.
