Wow, life has really picked up in these past few weeks as we have settled into a routine. Our kids love their teachers and their new school. It is fun to be in a small school where there is a lot of personal attention and a fun community feeling. ALL of the kids teachers are REALLY nice and the kids are all very happy and well challenged in school. The best part is that they have very minimal homework. I feel like shouting, hallelujah, somebody gets it, kids need to play after school.
Richard is really settling in now with his new classes and new curriculum. He has been putting in some insane hours at work. The first two weeks he would leave at six and not come home until eight. Unfortunately though he caught something last week and he has been coughing and getting a fever every night for the past week. That slowed him down. The poor guy is absolutely wasted. I hope he gets over this one soon.
I started coaching little kids gymnastics at the YMCA this week. It is two mornings a week for a total of three hours and in exchange, I get a full family membership there. It is great because Joseph is in the class and Rachel gets to go into the child watch for free. It is a lot of fun to be teaching again, even if it is only for a few hours. I am excited to play volleyball that they offer adults on Wed. nights. Lots of fun!!
Mark is in flag football and last night they had the opening jamboree. It was fun for the kids because they got to play on Roseburg high school's turf field under the lights. Mark was so hyped and Richard was all about letting him know that he was standing on the very place where his dad had made a great tackle and a touchdown run. Oh the glory days. Mark's amazing plays in his game included a perfectly executed route catching the ball for a five yard gain and a "tackle" (flag pull) to stop the other team from scoring on the last play of the game. We can't get enough of this stuff...obviously.
Katy is trying out a new dance studio this week. The one she is in doesn't focus on ballet and we found one that does and it looks really good. It is hard to be in a new community and have to find all of these things for your kids to participate in and hope they don't overlap in your schedule. I feel like I have been really blessed and led to the right places.
Laura started piano last week with the older two and she is so great. She loves to practice and she has a great sense of what to do, probably from watching the older two for so long. She also does some gymnastics at the YMCA in an older class taught by the college gymnasts. She loves it and it gives her something to be proud of.
Joseph is getting more intense as he gets older. His latest fun is making castles with the blocks. He will disappear for a while then run out and scream that I have to come look at his castle. I, of course, gush about how great it is and he will jump around, flexing his arms, and say, "oh yeah baby." The other thing he loves to do is shoot hoops in our new basketball hoop. One day I heard him yelling to someone that he was playing basketball. I went out to see who he was talking to and saw that he was looking at the sky. I said, "Joe, who are you talking to?" He said, "The guys in the airplane." Sure enough, there was one up there. Silly boy.
Rachel is my sweet little cutie who can wear ponytails now. She is a doll and still talks in gibberish, or is it the Adamic language? She gives the greatest hugs still. We were looking at baby photos and she actually looks like me. I love her all the more now.
That is the low down. No progress on the house hunt. We are actually not going to look for a while because we just feel right about waiting for now. Luckily we really like our rental house and neighborhood. We still are loving having a dishwasher, but we have stopped enjoying the air conditioner because of our first bill. Ouch.
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