March 29, 2017

Wednesday.

Mom and I went to a band festival at Dixie High School to watch Julia's band perform.  She's so cute on the trombone! She didn't want me to come because she thought her band wasn't going to do well.  I told her, Julia, I love watching you so much, I don't even care if your band sounds terrible!

Then I tried to help Mom pick out some new glasses.  I say tried because all of the glasses were SO expensive, that we only had a couple of options.  I think she chose some really cute ones, though.  And they will be super high quality.  She really needed new glasses because her old ones are chipping like crazy.  When we talked about the price of the glasses, she told me the cutest story.  Mom has recently been going through old pictures and cards and papers and organizing or throwing away everything.  She decided that she would read every card before throwing them away.  To her surprise, when she opened a birthday card from her mom and dad, she found two hundred dollars inside!  Neither of us could believe that she had forgotten about that money at the time they gave it to her!  It's been sitting there for years.  And both of her parents have been gone for a while.  She was really excited to use it to help pay for her new glasses.  I said, "Mom," thinking about her birthday in a few weeks, "it's like your mom and dad are giving you a birthday present this year!"  We both smiled at the thought.  It sounded so sweet.

Owen had his first ever T-Ball game today.  He was SO happy about it!  He put his uniform on right when he got home from preschool, even though his game was at 5:30 p.m.!  In the afternoon, I took him to our new elementary school--the one we will be going to next year--and we registered him for kindergarten.  He also had his kindergarten checkup at the doctor's office.  He is four feet tall, which they say is the 99th percentile.  But he is really just off the curve!  He is 50 pounds now, but the doctor commented on how tall and lean he has gotten.  He has 20/20 vision, which is apparently amazingly good for a 5 year old.  Most little kids only have 20/30, I guess.  I decided that even his eyes are mature.  :) And I just have to add that he is reading like a champ now.  He is SO ready for kindergarten.

Time to sign this big boy up for kindergarten at Crimson View Elementary!

His T-Ball game was so funny.  Kids were running the wrong direction, falling over, all sorts of funny stuff.  Owen even got a hit off of the coach pitching.  The whole way home, he just kept saying how much fun he had.  He can't wait to play again.  And I was the super mom who made hamburgers for my whole family, wrapped them all in foil, and brought dinner for everyone to the game.  Greg and the girls met us there after volleyball.  Life is so crazy busy that dinner is getting more and more difficult.  I have to really get creative.  But it was fun eating on the blanket, cheering for Owen, while Miles and Austin climbed all over the playground for an hour.  Everyone came home properly exhausted and happy.

Only one of the team's helmet's would fit this kid's head! :)

It's been a good day!