Swim School

Every summer Austin has taken swim school. This was the first year that he actually understood that he was trying to learn to swim. We went Mon-Thurs for 2 weeks and it was really exhausting for all of us. Austin and I are up by 7 every day but Vivian likes to sleep in. Vivian practiced walking with my assistance during swim school. I had hoped that either she would be walking on her own or that he would be swimming on his own. No such luck. Austin did complete his level and will be moving on to the next level. He finally propelled on his own this Wednesday. Woo hoo!
Here are some pics I took during the observation window.









I failed to mention that in addition to Vivian practicing walking she snacked the entire time....I mean the entire time. All the other parents thought it was so funny! I swear, I really do feed her.

2010 Pre-school Graduation

Austin graduated from his 3 year old class last week.
I didn't think the graduation program would amount to much but it was really a nice surprise. They made a 30 minute video of all the kids, sang songs and had awards for every kid...best hugger, most athletic, best manners, etc. Austin got best smile. Didn't surprise me. He is always cheesin it up for pictures. Nick was a little disappointed that he didn't get most athletic but what dad doesn't want that? His teachers sent home a scrapbook and a personalized video that they made for each kid. I was very impressed! I taught 3 year olds last year I quickly realized that I sucked as a teacher. I did no scrapbook, no video...I guess that is why I'm not teaching this year. Here are some pictures I managed to take while Vivian was crawling underneath the pews because the program was only an hour in a half!!!

This is an actual picture of the slide show picture of him

Pretending to strum his guitar

You know how there is always that one kid who is singing louder than everyone else? Yeap...that was Austin. And he was right behind the mic.


Just Smile


PRE-K or BUST!

Austin's party

Here it is 4 days later and I am just now getting to sit down and blog about the kids birthday parties. It was a busy day needless to say but I definitely enjoyed seeing the kids enjoy their day. I have to admit I don't think I will ever schedule their parties on the same day again unless it is one big party. Way too much work for the mama. :) Here are some pics from Austin's party. We had it at a Party place in Broken Arrow. It was smaller than most party places so it wasn't chaotic and too noisy. We had the place to ourselves and they were super clean. :)





I swear he had a good time at his party



Party favors...this is as crafty as I get

Papa and Uncle Matt being silly


Nick cut and served the cake...I was pretty shocked when he started doing this


Friends and Fam

Austin is 4!

I can't believe my baby is four today. He is getting so tall and big. He went from a 24 month to a 4T so fast....barely wore a 3T. We made batman brownies for his school party tomorrow and then he has a Batman party this weekend with friends and family.


He is such a fun loving little boy. And a mamas boy and I love every bit of it. He is all boy for sure. Loves all the super hero stuff and is obsessed with the word fart! A few weeks ago he was finally confident enough to start saying the prayer with our meals. We were so happy. He has been saying he can't do it and finally one day he just did it. So cute and such a great memory to remember.

The above collage I cannot take credit for...our friend did it using Picasa. Austin is so darn photogenic, doesn't get it from me.

Happy Birthday Austin! We love you!

Wearing dress clothes=purple race car?

Every Sunday before church we have a battle with Austin wanting to wear dress clothes. Unless he has Batman, Spiderman or Superman on his shirt, comfy pants and tennis shoes it is an not a pleasant experience for the parent or child. I try to lay his clothes out the night before and let his choose between 3 shirts. That has worked pretty well so far. For the most part he still wears jeans to church and that is fine by me. Well today was Spring pictures at school. I had his clothes ironed and ready to go the day before. I was just dreading getting him dressed today so I showed him his new picture outfit last night and he seemed ok with wearing it, ...however when this morning came around he started to say, "it's too big", "I don't like it". I just wanted things to go smoothly so I told him if he wanted a new race car he needed to wear his cool picture clothes to school. He said, "a purple one"? I said, "sure". Please let me know if you find a purple race car...I need to find one today! I took a pic of him in his new cool picture clothes before we left the house. Good thing because he and his best friend, Ryan, wouldn't take their coats off at school because they didn't have their cool superhero shirts on!!