September 2012

September bought some playing, some soccer, some dance classes, and some beach time...

Gracie started her 4 year old pre-k class.  Her teacher is Ms. Bullard.  She attends 5 days  a week this year!

Gracies decided that playing soccer wasn't just for her big brother this year as well.  And I decided to give coaching a try.  Luckily, while I coached Elijah's team, a friend of ours coached Grace's team at the same time.  It worked out well.  We had the big kids, and the little siblings were on the other team.

Both teams played well.  I think our team scored a whooping 4 goals (the whole season) but they improved so much over the season!   Grace's team did well too.  They all had fun, and that's the most important thing!

And Grace went on her first field trip of the year to the farm!

And while it was insanely busy... I apparently didn't take any more pics.  heh.

August 2012

Just because we were back on the coast doesn't mean that life slowed down at all.  The kiddos went to gymnastics camp... and Grace came down with Strep....again.  sigh.  poor thing cannot catch a break.

Once the little felt better, we broke out the slip and slide.

and had some science fun when it got too hot.

and as always, dressing up.

AND hair cuts!

We went to the aquairum with some friends and took the ferry over.

 at the end of the trip, I thought Elijah looked tired... gave him a hug and he was burning up.  his turn with the strep.  sigh.

We took a weekend trip to the zoo and to Raleigh. 

the zoo had a pretty cool dinosaur exhibit.

We went to the Museum of Natural Science in Raleigh.

the majority of the rest of August was spent with playdates and friends

And then the day comes... the boy enters 1st grade!!

HELLO 1ST GRADE!!

Elijah's school loops, which means he has the same teacher and classmates for K-1.  So he was excited to go back and see his friends as well as his teachers!

As a special end-of-summer-back-to-school treat we went on a weekend trip to Myrtle Beach.  

the obligatory erin and jerry self portrait

the waves were insanely large while we were down there.  grace was a little intimidated by them,

Elijah loved the water slide.  He wasn't quite ready to go down by himself... so I went too.  It was pretty fun...