If she would have stopped posing and messing around, I might have gotten a good picture of her. Oh well, what do you expect from this little ball of spice? It's a little hard to believe that my baby is in preschool. The time really does go fast. I am starting to understand all the old ladies at the grocery stores who tell me to cherish this time while they are young, because it slips away so fast.
Hayden: 1st Grade...Wayndot Early Childhood Center
Caite: 2nd Grade...Van Gorden Elementary
Isaac: 5th Grade...Van Gorden Elementary
Hayden Gardner #20: center, outside linebacker, left guard.
It was HILARIOUS to watch these Kindergartner and 1st graders play! In the first half we moved backwards more than we moved forwards. But then they got the hang of it and even scored 2 touch downs. Hayden was all smiles as usual.
The second grade team who played after us needed more players, so Coach asked Hayden to play another game. This cute boy ran and ran and ran for 3 hours straight, loving every second of it.
Isaac Gardner #68: Quarter Back, right line backer, nose tackle, right split out (punt team).
reviewing plays with coach.
I don't know why I was so surprised when I watched Isaac play. He was good! I loved hearing him call his team to the huddle and call the plays. He was confident and willing to do anything coached asked. When he wasn't QB, coach had him in playing a little bit of everything. At the end of the game, our cousin Kurtis, said, "dude, did you hear the announcer say your name like a thousand times?" to which he replied, "He said my name on the lound speaker?" "yeah, you were like the star!" "Really?" Hopefully he stays this humble.
Owen and Avery are Caite's good friends from Maumelle. They were both in her preK class and Owen has been in Caite's class ever since. His mom tells us he has a major crush on Caite...can you blame him? Anyway, they have family in Indy and made a special trip over to see us for the day. We spent the day at Kings Island. We had A LOT of fun even if it was the hottest day of the year.
We are getting familiar with our new area. It has a FABULOUS parks and rec program. One of the parks has an annual Crazy Cardboard Regatta. Hilarius!! the rules... make a boat only using cardboard, tape, glue and paint. Paddle around the cones on the lake, the boat with the best time wins. There were about 35 entries this year and they were split up in several heats. It was so fun to watch the boats slowly (or sometimes rather quickly) sink as they paddled. To my surprise a few made it to the finish line. We had a great time cheering them on.
We have made lots of new friends. With Wilsons invited us over to swim for the afternoon. Swimming is good these days, it's been hot (for Cincinnati) the past few weeks. But we're glad we're not in Little Rock with their record breaking highs of 115 (or there abouts).
Isaac being silly! He has, however, perfected his back flip of the diving board. Something to be proud of.
Monica and Caite
We have TONS of parks around us. We found this one that has a skate park in it. Isaac's dream come true. I'll have to take a pic of him actually at the skate park next time.
It also has a splash pad and play ground for the little kids. So everyone was happy and had something to do.
The best part (in my opinion) of this day was that as we were getting ready to pack up and head home for lunch, a group of teens came with cooler and offered free lunch to every kid at the park. Apparently there's some type of program the city has established that offers lunches at different parks and churches. I think it's supposed to be for under privileged kids, so when they asked I said "No thanks", but they insisted it was for everyone. Yay for free lunch. And I have to admit we have gone back a few times.
