Audrey's 1st day of Kindergarten 9-2-08

Audrey started her first day of Kindergarten today!! She is in Mrs. New's Kindergarten/1st Grade Class. It's a very small school and they combine the two classes and have the children help each other with the class work. It's a nice classroom and a very nice teacher.
Audrey was very excited to start school today and Logan was very upset that he didn't get to go with her! He starts his school tomorrow!!
Audrey only has a half day today and then tomorrow she will start classes 8:30am to 3:00pm every day of the week and Logan will go Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9:30am to 11:15am.

I'M 9 MONTHS OLD!!

We just wanted to let you know that Liam is now 9 months old!!! Where did the time go?!?!? The 9 months of being pregnant went by like a snail traveling up hill in the snow! Boy is that slow...boy was I was sick!!

But look, it was worth it! He is so cute and so funny. He decided to do this crawling on his hands and feet...looks like a crab walk. He is also pulling himself up using his toys or dad's legs.

We will probably add more this weekend since our village is having their annual feast! Can't wait to see what they do.

Have a great one!

July 1, 2008

Before After

Audrey has had a loose tooth for awhile and she would play with it (using her tongue) and we kept telling her to eat apples to see if it would fall out. She told us that she wanted to keep all 100 of her teeth and that she didn't want it to fall out. She refused to even hear about the Tooth Fairy taking her tooth and leaving her money.

Well I was washing Logan's hand for dinner and she came running in the bathroom yelling "ouch ouch ouch it hurt...it hurts" I thought she meant her hand at first because she kept holding it. Then she yelled "put it back mom, put it back!" I realized that she ate her carrots and her tooth fell out.

The tooth fairy left her some money and took her tooth and she wasn't happy. If you look closely you can see that her new tooth is up!

Also, Liam now has two teeth on the bottom and seems to be getting his top teeth as well. Logan was sad. Audrey and Liam are getting new teeth so Logan said that he wanted one of his to come out too.

What's happening with the kids..

Well, Saturday, June 14 we went Knaresborough for the Great Bed Race. It was interesting, the teams of 7 people all race around town in "beds" and end up in the River Nidd. It's been a tradition for many many years. They had a little carnival type thing set up and the kids enjoyed that. http://www.knaresborough.co.uk/bedrace/

Saturday night Liam was really sick and had a fever all day on Sunday. It was no fun. I took him to the Dr on base and she sent me the hospital where they have all their pediatricians. It was an experience! They admitted him to check him out for what ended up being just what I diagnosed....an ear infection with a fever. He has been teething lately and not feeling well. So from previous experience and from the way he was acting I thought ear infection as well.

The Dr on call wanted to run blood tests to rule out meningitis, TB, and a host of other ailments. I said no! All I wanted was antibiotics and Motrin. Well the funny thing is they don't give antibiotics for ear infections and they didn't know what Motrin was! It was interesting time telling them his fever in Fahrenheit and they only know Celsius. Telling them the drugs he was on (Tylenol) and they didn't know what that was. I also had to know when he last "opened his bowels", and if his "downstairs bits" were okay! (a dirty diaper and his private area if you needed interpretations). They also said he was "floppy". Tired and limp. They asked if he ever stay in hospital (yes they don't add the in there) and I said only when he was born via c-section. They asked why, I said he stayed with me until discharged and she didn't understand. I explained I had a c-section and we stay in the hospital 3-4 days. She was shocked! Women here leave 6 HOURS after having a c-section with their baby!!
It was an experience to say the least...but very friendly people!

Liam is doing better now that he has Motrin equivalent and Tylenol equivalent. I think I felt a tooth coming through as well. Time will tell.

As Liam is getting teeth, I noticed tonight while brushing Audrey's teeth that the two front bottom teeth looked crooked. I touch the one and it's LOOSE! Can you believe it?!? 5 years old and her tooth is loose. She is very upset by this. She said she likes her teeth and doesn't want them to come out. The tooth fairy didn't even make her feel better. We will see when it falls out, have to go to the dentist (on base) to have it looked at.

Hope everyone had a great weekend and a nice Father's Day!

Our latest news...

Audrey started Pre-School Thursday, May 15th! She loved it!!! She is one of 7 kids and she is the only girl...guess she's used to that. But nonetheless she had a good time and couldn't wait to go back that Friday. She attends the school on base and will continue on until the end of this semester (only about a month or so). Then in August she will be moved up to the Kindergarten/1st grade class. The school is so small and classes are so small she will be in a combined class. Also Pre-K through 12th grade are all in the same building...

She has a really great teacher (compared to the last) and she attends M, T, Th, and F from 8:30 to 10:30 with NO homework!! It's a good set up so far. If we want, Logan may be able to start nursery school this fall at our local village school. Just me and Liam, what would I do all day?!?!?! :)

May 4th Audrey turned 5 years old!

We didn't have a big party since we are new to the area. But Audrey and Logan wanted to go bowling, so we did. We had fun bowling, I beat Bud two times (not that that matters or what the day was about. But it did make it that much more fun!). We had a good lunch at the bowling alley and then headed home for cake, ice cream and PRESENTS! She got a lot of nice gifts and she even got some new British toys! Like Peppa Pig, I have to say that she is rather cute for a pig! All in all it was a good birthday.


Audrey bowling

Logan bowling
Liam...well he was watching everyone and looking at the balls Audrey blowing out her candles.