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Sunday, October 3, 2010

long time, no blog... 4:33 PM

I have been a total slacker over the summer when it came to the blog. I am hoping to get back on track here. We had a pretty "normal" summer except for the fact that Colin spent 3 1/2 weeks in a cast and Juan was gone for a month in June and a few weeks in August. We spent a lot of time at our pool and at Nemah and Papa's pool. We did a lot of projects at Lowe's, we spent a few days in Disney and we enjoyed the hot Florida weather...

Brandon is now back in school and loving it and loving to ride the bus. His teacher is Mrs. Oliff and she is so nice and very good at communicating with the parents, which is great! As of right now there are only 6 kids in his class...all boys!! Brandon is now potty trained!!!!! He does excellent during the day and we only put a diaper on him at night (just in case!) He is so proud of himself when he goes potty and will even go potty away from home in a public restroom, which eases a lot of worries about being away from the house.

Colin tries to go potty too, but nothing yet has come out. Just sits there to be cool like Brandon. He is a little ham, very sociable and is my sidekick...he goes wherever I go during the days while Brandon is at school. We have started back up on our busy routine...M.O.M.S. stuff on most mondays; MOPS on most tuesdays; handicrafters on wednesdays; gym on thru, fri, sat and whenever else possible; Lowe's workshops every other Sat; and the list goes on. I am also involved in Christ Renews His Parish this year at my church (which is awesome!), we have been trying out Mommy & Me classes at the YMCA and we even tried out Awana for the kids and Bible study for me, but we had to drop that because it was too late at night. So as you can see, we are keeping busy!

Juan is busy doing work-ups and evaluations, flying and also being an awesome dad and is enjoying the gym as well. We try to do as much fun stuff as possible when he is home (which isn't that often these days). Tonight during the bed time routine, we were reading a book and there was one part where the boy and his dad were doing something together. Brandon said "Where's my daddy? I need to see my daddy?" So, it is hard on them, but we are doing the best we can.

Now I need to make up for lost blogging time and post some pictures. I will not post all thru the summer, but starting when Brandon went back to school and a few things since then. If you want to see the rest of the pictures thru the summer, they are all posted on our flickr website. Enjoy!

Waiting for the bus on the first day of school:

This is Brandon's new teacher, Mrs. Oliff...

Here comes the bus, dropping him off after the first day of school...

Daddy was home in time to see Brandon get off the bus...

We went to a carnival a few weeks ago and for the first time (that I know of) Brandon really enjoyed the bounce house...Colin was much more hesitant...

They played a few games...This one you had to hit down the pins with the ball. Brandon hit all 6. Colin tried too!

He got a prize anyways...

Waiting in line for the next game...

Football toss:

Lollipop tree

Here they are at a pirate/princess birthday party they went to for their friends Michael and Lily (twins).

They each took a turn at the pinata

Colin down by the water

Our family...and yes, Juan is wearing a pirate's hat...

Brandon must have gone down this slide 300 times in 30 minutes

A few weeks ago, we also went to Lowe's to build a fire truck project (unfortunately the fire truck was recalled so they did a different project). There were real fire trucks and ambulances there that they got to sit in and they were LOVING it!!