Kendrick's first day of Kindergarten was Tues. Sept. 15
Th. He has been waiting for this day for a long time! It's hard to imagine that I have two in School now! He goes on Tuesdays,
Wednesdays, and Fridays. He has been very excited about going and so far has done great! There have been no tears and I am very thankful for that..we went through that with Kaitlyn and it is not fun! I'll have to admit that i was really worried about him going this year. His birthday is in March so we could have held him back till next year. We were thinking that that's what we were going to do but over the winter last year I saw a big improvement in him and thought he had grown up a lot and so we decided to go ahead and send him to Kindergarten round up. He does not like to sit down and color or write so he
didn't know how to write his name. I thought I could teach him that over the Summer but every time we sat down it got worse instead of better!:( He just had NO interest. This is
sooo different than how it was with Kaitlyn, she learned to write her name by the time she was four and I remember very well her sitting at the kitchen table asking me how to spell words! I guess that's just the difference with kids. He knows all his letters and does really well with numbers it's just that he DON'T want to write! Anyway I guess it was probably my pride more than anything but I thought he had to learn to write his name before he went to School, well that didn't happen. (I asked Calvin why we gave this poor child a name with 8 letters in it!:) Just Kidding!) Calvin told me not to worry about it and that he might actually do better for
somelse than what he does for me. Well he turned out to be right. I couldn't believe the first day he came HE HAD WROTE HIS NAME!:) He comes bouncing out every day ready to show me what he has learned! So far they have learned the letters A and M and the numbers 0 and 1!They also memorize Bible verses and he has already said his verse for this week! I am very proud of him and I hope his kindergarten year goes great!
Here he is all ready to go on the first day!
At School.....before I left him that first morning I told him to have fun and listen to his teacher. All the other moms were still in the class room. He got a funny look on his face and said 'which one is she Mom?"
Hilarious!!! Poor guy I don't know if he thought all of the Moms were gonna stay and be teachers or what!:)
Kendrick & his cousin Andre...these two are very excited about being in the same grade!
~KAREN~
At School.....before I left him that first morning I told him to have fun and listen to his teacher. All the other moms were still in the class room. He got a funny look on his face and said 'which one is she Mom?"Hilarious!!! Poor guy I don't know if he thought all of the Moms were gonna stay and be teachers or what!:)
Kendrick & his cousin Andre...these two are very excited about being in the same grade!
This was a display of all sorts of little cars, trucks, tractors, trains and anything you could image. The kids thought this was really neat especially Kendrick...he wanted to go back and look at it the second time!
Kendrick on a "big tractor"
getting ready to "sleep"!
Eating breakfast...waffles and smoky links!!
Their room is decorated with a jungle theme. It's very cute! This is one corner of it.
Getting ready to go to School!!
About a week after it happened...
YUMMY CORN ON THE COB!!
8.4.09 ~ The BIG corn day! We put away corn at Janice's house. The guys helped us get it in the night before. It was a whole truck load!! Jan, Dannielle, and I started about 6:00 am. Damon stayed with Claire & Kendall and Kristen came and stayed with my kids so that we didn't have to get them up that early! Linda & her boys came later on and helpedout. They didn't need corn this year but were kind enough to come help anyway!!:) Sonny & Ruth stopped in and Ruth stayed to help cut off. Claire, Kendall, Kaitlyn, & Kendrick came when they woke up. Kyann went home with Kristen for the day! Dustin stopped in to show us his new ride!:) After a bad thunder strom sent us into the house garage we finally finished up around 3:00 pm. We ended up with 96 Qts.!:) It's nice to have it in the freezer. I'm sure it will taste good this winter!:) My kids really enjoy this day every summer!:)
Cooling the corn...it makes it cool faster if you get all wet!:)
Cooking the corn.....
the corn waiting to be brushed...
brushing the corn....
Linda telling Kaitlyn how it's done!
Dustin's new car...Damon going for a test drive!
BREAK TIME!!:)
Cutting off the corn and getting ready to bag it!!:)
On the road....
The Driver!!
Kaitlyn loved watching...she is very much into baseball/softball!!
The weather was very nice. We couldn't have asked for a more beautiful evening!
The little missy got kind of tired of it. She had more fun carrying this bag around. Thankfully we sat on the end of our row and right across from us there were some empty seats!! it gave her a little space to run!!:)
The Reds hit 2 home runs back to back...right when Kaitlyn & I went to get ice cream...She was disappointed to miss them but the ice cream tasted very good!!:)
We asked a guy to take our picture...i think he included half of the people in our section...oh well...:)
They had fireworks right after the game...very neat!!
Kendrick & Kaitlyn wanted to pose with the statues on the way out!
Kaitlyn & Kendrick had a fun time seeing all the different animals!
All of together...its so hard to get a good picture with everyone looking!
The Rhino ~ Kendrick talked about seeing them days before we went!:)
Kendrick fighting the gorilla...boys will be boys
Taking a break before the 4-D backyardigan show. The show was really neat...there was a thunderstorm and we saw lightening and got "rained" on...and also smelled the "stinky goo"!:)
Mr. Lion
Mr. Polar Bear
Too much zoo for Kyann. She did really good!
Eating supper at Shoneys after the Zoo before heading back to the motel to swim!
On Sunday we went to THE BEACH WATER PARK!
It was very cool when we got there only 70 and the sun wasn't shining...but that didn't stop the kids!:)
This is a really nice water park! It's not real big, which I liked. they have several wading pools perfect forKyann's size and then there are quite a few slides. one slide is like 100 ft. in the air. Kaitlyn wanted to go on it. We got almost up and I chickened out... i am not very fond of heights! There was one right beside that wasn't quite as high so we went down that one instead. i told Kait that she could go down the big one we would be waiting for her at the bottom but she didn't want to go by herself!:)
Taking a break from the action...
Going down the slide!!
