when I picked up Kael from pre-school today he was all excited to show off the award he had.

that is right my boy is the student of the week… way to go Kael

quick update… vacations are done, reunion is over, and everyone is back in nebraska. we have an added bonus with us too. samantha, amy’s sister, moved from pennsylvania to nebraska and is living with us.

the trip back was fun and the boys did great. we camped at several koa kampgrounds and had much fun. i will try to get some pictures posted over the next week. that is all.

it has been awhile since i/we have posted. things have been busy/boring. amy and the boys left to visit her family in the middle of june. i have been a bachelor ever since. being a bachelor was nice for ~ the first week, after that it became very boring. i miss my family. luckily, i will be catching a plane to go see them. yay! looking forward to seeing my family and then getting back home and finding some sort of routine again.

I finished finals last week with a few comfortable A’s and one “by the skin of my teeth” A.

Pharmacology, for those of you that have not had this blessed experience, is a tough class. Basically, pure memorization. For someone like me who prefers to see how things work, this type of class is much harder than, say, A&P where you can visualize muscles moving like levers, food being broken down through the digestive tract and so on.

I went into my final test with a 91.15 (a 92% is an A and they do not round). I studied my butt off, got a 96% which brought my overall up to 91.89. My first B+ since I started back to school? Lucky for me, if less than 30% of the class gets a question right, we get the points back. So, thank you to all of you that missed the same 2 questions, giving me 4 points for a 100% on the test and an overall grade of 92.33%!!! It may not be the best way to end up with an A but all things considered, I’ll take it and be happy with it.

guy just lost his first tooth! we’ve been expecting it now for a few weeks, and we’ve been telling him to keep wiggling it.

well tonight he was doing just that and he got most of the tooth out by himself. he comes over to me and say’s dad look! can you help me get it out. we went to the bathroom and cleaned up his mouth. i grabbed hold and gave a little tug. pop! his first tooth was out!

yay!

he’s very excited about the tooth fairy coming tonight. since he is camping out on his brothers floor, we are making a note for the tooth fairy to let her know where he and the tooth are… just in case she goes to his room.

here are some pictures.

fyi, i will be making changes to site over the next several weeks. trying out new galleries, themes, etcetera. don’t be alarmed if something isn’t working one night but is working again the next morning.

amy is not very good at tooting her own horn, so i will do it for her :)

she is featured in a clarkson college media release titled “Wallingford Finds Passion Through Service-Learning”

i will not spoil the fun. follow the link above to give it a read.

A few weeks ago, Guy had parent-teacher conferences. He is doing great and Ms. Fisher is very pleased with him! The reading levels are each assigned a letter value, with “H” (the level Guy is at) being the end of 1st/beginning of 2nd. For those of you that don’t know, Guy is in kindergarten. Since he is doing so well, Jamie decided to encourage his love of reading while boosting his skills at the same time. Jamie bought Guy “Dinosaurs Before Dark”, the first in the Magic Tree House Series. Guy was very excited to have his first chapter book. He read the first chapter out loud to me last night before bed. We told him he could read one chapter then he needed to go to sleep. He finished the first chapter (about 5 pages) and then very quickly read “Chapter 2: The Monster” moving right on. I think he thought if we went fast enough we wouldn’t realize that he was starting a new chapter. It was quite amusing and also very exciting. Jamie and I are both big readers and what a joy it would be to pass that love on to our boys! I am so anxious to find him tented under his blanket with a flashlight and a good book. He is very proud of his new book and we have made quite a big deal out of it. So, Gramma & Papa, if you get a chance, make a big deal too!

We took the boys to Clarkson this morning for the Easter celebration: pancake breakfast, The Amazing Arthur, balloon animals, face painting and an egg hunt. Amazing Arthur did some magic and along with his sister made balloon animals. Then there was an Easter egg hunt.

There were a few people who overflowed their baskets while others got hardly any. Kael was at the back of the pack so by the time he got through there was nothing left but someone was nice enough to share. There was one little girl who was just devastated at not getting eggs. She was literally sobbing. Guy started to get upset because he only got 2 eggs but we reminded him that we were going to Grandma & Grandpa’s park with them later and he felt better.

We came home for a bit and tried to sneak in a quick nap, which never really works and then called Grandma to make sure we were still on. Grandpa was working but we picked up Grandma and went to the park. There were literally thousands of eggs (I believe they said over 40,000) in all just scattered all over the park. The kids were broken into groups by age and off they went. I took Kael and Jamie took Guy. Kael filled about half his basket and said he was done so we went to find Jamie & Guy who had managed to completely fill his basket while there were still eggs everywhere. On our way back to the picnic tables to empty the eggs (for recycling) we saw a few boys without eggs so Guys shared his with them. I am so proud of what a thoughtful and caring boy he is.

Since it was freezing out (36 degrees), we decided not to stick around for the games and headed to Scooters instead for hot cocoa. We dropped Grandma off and headed home to watch Bee Movie.

Overall, it was a really nice day.