Better Late than Never

Wow, what a busy month.  We are experiencing for the first time having a child playing soccer.  You have the games, and the practices.  I can’t imagine it with several kids at the same time.  We have enjoyed going to Josh’s practices and games.  Josh has been taking after his dad and dominating the sport, its fun to see how excited they get when they score a goal. 

  

Josh also started kindergarten this past month.  He is  adjusting well and it is fun to see all the stuff he is learning.  We just had our first parent teacher conference and his teacher said Josh is doing great and is a nice kid and nice to his classmates.  Andrew started pre-school and is becoming quite the big boy.  It is relieving to see him overcoming some of his shyness.  There primary program is coming up so we are hoping he will be brave enough to do his part. 

  Josh also started riding his bike and within little time he was driving across the park, going off the curb, and going fast.  We were expecting that he would just be content going slowly up and down our street, but I guess boys need something more interesting.  Josh also decided to grow up and lose his teeth.  He has lost one and has another just dangling there as the new tooth is growing in already.   We need Grandpa near by to pull it out.

Andrew had his 4th B-day this past month.  He had a lot of fun getting a bunch of cool presents from family and friends.  He went to out of this world pizza for his birthday dinner.  He was really sweet about sharing his presents with his brothers and enjoyed the time playing with them while his brother was at school.  He wanted a Wii cake for his b-day and we attempted to make one.  He liked it and thought it was cool, so I guess that is what counts.  We definitely won’t be winning any cake decorating contests.

Andrew insisted that he had Jell-O for his Birthday.

Luke is still keeping us busy.  He is quite the busy body and a very curious little boy.  It is really starting to communicate and is getting really good with sign language.  He likes doing the same things as his brothers, especially when they rough house with their dad.  He is a lot of fun and we are just enjoying his delight in the world around him.

Kim remains busy taking care of kids, teaching, and volunteering at the school.  She just got a new assistant to help her as a Den leader.  They finally called someone that would help and not be a burden.  Kim is thoroughly enjoying her new assistant and all the help she is giving her with the scouts. Kim has been going a lot on girls nights outs and having fun with her friends.  Darrin keeps trying to get her to stay home and have fun with him, but I guess she doesn’t think Darrin is all that fun.

Darrin is trying to be young again and be busy with sports and being active.  This past week Darrin played in two soccer games and ran a 5k.  The 5k was one for Intel employees so Darrin tried to get Mike and Chad to run also.  Chad claimed to be injured and couldn’t run, but Mike took the challenged and whooped Darrin real good.  Darrin’s excuse was he had a soccer game the night before which drained him of all the super fast energy he needed to beat Mike.  Darrin is anticipating next year to hopefully beat both Mike and Chad.

Well that is probably more than you wanted to hear about us.  Sorry we have been terrible thus far.  We will repent and do better.

Love,
  Darrin, Kim, Josh, Andrew, Luke