Saturday, June 8, 2013

Catching up!

So much to catch up on.  We have stayed really busy lately.  I am officially a minivan mama and loving it!  Having a van has been truly life changing for us as a family!!
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Maddie just finished her first year of preschool a couple weeks ago.  I just can’t believe that her first year is already over.  Remember when I posted about her first day???  She has changed so much!  She will be going a few days over in June and July for their summer program and then school will start again the end of August!
                         First day vs. Last Day
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Maddie also just finished up soccer!  It was once a week for an hour.  They mostly did exercise drills and ran around.  Watching three and four year olds trying to play was pretty funny. She participated for the most part with some coaxing and bribing from us.  Although she picked her nose and carried the ball around more than anything else Smile She didn’t really enjoy it too much, but we stuck with it.  Probably won’t do it again, unless she shows interest in it in the future.
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She also just finished up her first week of swim lessons (the minivan really has come in handy lately).  She seems to like it, but she has a long way to go before she is swimming on her own!  We have gone to the pool quite a few times already this summer and she is doing great wearing her puddlejumpers and swimming in the water.  She loves when there are other kids her age to play with, because they will just go all over the pool together!  I was brave a couple of days ago when I took both kids by myself.  William is such a good baby, that it was pretty easy.  He just floated in the raft or sat on the blanket and played. 
{Maddie listening to her teachers at her first swim lesson}
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and a few others….
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