Been a while....

So here I'll do an entire month of April update since it's now May. May already, goodness where did the days go?? The kids have less than a month of school left and I am so ready, I'm certain they are too.

Tommy is thriving in his new preschool class. He was fussy just one morning since starting. Not sure what his deal was, thinking he just didn't feel good. It sure beats the fussing every morning. He loves going to school now and actually tells us about his day too.

Robby and Kimberlyn have been playing soccer. They have two more weeks left. I've missed most games due to them being over Tommy's nap time or having to be horse mom with Kaitlyn. I went to their games yesterday. This season they play every Saturday at the same time. Their fields are near each other....thankfully as after I moved closer to Robby's field porr Kimberlyn got abused. First her finger got hit by the ball and then her face. It made her loose tooth bleed, but it's still not quite loose enough to come out. I suspect the Tooth Fairy will be coming soon.
Robby's a rockstar goalie. He found this talent last season. The soccer league through church has just two boys teams for his level. So every week they play the same team. Larry was told by a parent on the other team that at their practices they are working on ways to get around Robby in the goal!






Kaitlyn had her first show of the season. It was at the National Equestrian Center in Lake St. Louis, MO (just outside St. Louis)~ it is a HUGE indoor facility. I was nervous... When Kaitlyn gets nervous (which happens for any show) her pony tends to feed off of it. In a bad way ;) She was amazing....she held it together and rode without nerves. She did what I always tell her to do, just ride and have fun! She rode around that show ring with the biggest smile ever!! She had FUN.

Romeo was "hot" or fiesty at first on Friday evening. By Saturday morning (show time) he was a sweet, mellow thing. The joke is he's just a "SHOW" boy and likes the big lights...he really just did everything that was asked and it was great experience for Kaitlyn.

Kaitlyn showed in the crossrail (18" high jumps) division. She had a warm up jump round, two jump rounds and a flat class (walk, trot and canter- no jumps). In her warm up round she placed 2nd. Her next round she lost a stirrup, she couldn't get it and just rode the course like a champ. I was so proud. She looked so good we thought she got her stirrup back...she didn't place in that class as in the judge's eyes the lost stirrup is bad :) Next jump class she placed 3rd. For the flat class she placed 6th, this was out of 11 and she knew why she placed lower- always a nice thing. She has never gotten a 6th place ribbon and was THRILLED to add a green ribbon to her collection!

Her number was 444 and she thought it was the COOLEST number ever!!




Isn't this smile HUGE?!?!?!

Jumping like a pro missing one stirrup :)


the ribbons!!!




GONE FISHING....
Tommy had asked to go fishing one day. And I explained that Daddy would have to take hime, he asked to go fishing every time he woke up....morning, naptime...everytime. Then it went to every other day or so....finally Dad took them fishing. He claimed they had the worst time ever. Kaitlyn lost her boot, it filled with water, notice her purple sock. The kids kept getting the lines snapped and hung up on stuff...seems Robby was the photographer of the chaos. I got a good chuckle... I wonder if now a few weeks later it's a better memory for Larry. I'll have to ask him.....





Tommy on his first field trip. To the bowling alley! His first bus ride and all...we had a fun time!




Kaitlyn with her napping show boy....one morning while she was sick with a stomach bug.