First Day of School!

Back to school time!!  Joey is now in Kindergarten, Ellie started 1st grade, and Isaak started 3rd grade!  Joey is now the only one in Chinese Kindergarten, and Ike and Elle are now at the same school.  Next year they could possibly all be in the same school (which would be nice)!

Ocean Fun

To end summer on the right foot I took the kids to the ocean for some good old fun in the waves!  This was the first time we've gone without Andy, and while it was a little more "stressful" because I was the only one watching them, it was still a great time (we were literally the ONLY ones on the beach that day)!  The waves were great and the kids had a blast just laying on their kickboards and letting the waves take them to shore!

Waterpark Fun

A couple of weeks ago we spent a day with friends at a waterpark.  The kids had so much fun!  We loved it because it was just big enough that they had fun, and just small enough that we could let them run around on their own (mostly)!

The boys having fun on this huge slide!

Ellie about to plunge into the pool!

Swimming Lessons

It's that time of year again!!  This was the first year that all of the kids have had swimming lessons and they are loving them so much we decided to have them take another 2 weeks of lessons before school starts!  Really it makes us all happy....the kids get to play in the water and learn a great skill while I (Mom) get to read a book for an hour!!

 

Ellie and Joey getting the basics on how to breath

Ike's doing laps....kind-of

Someone lost a tooth!

A certain little girl just lost her first tooth on Friday!!  She's pretty excited about what the Tooth Fairy left her!