Since school has started, we've had something going on every weekend. The boys' school is in the process of improving the playground. So a couple of Saturdays ago, we spent the day painting the fence. Today we spent the day covering up the existing pea gravel and putting down new rubber mulch. It looks great and I'm excited that the boys will no longer be coming home with rocks in their pockets and shoes.
Last weekend (Labor Day) we had our last few days at the pool for the summer-so I took the boys all 3 days. Greg came with us on Saturday, Jenny and Tommy joined us on Sunday, and on Monday we went to the end of summer pool party for our neighborhood. I love how much they love to swim - Ryan loves to swim more than anything else we have done with him and he has improved so much over the summer. Luke started to confuse swimming with treading water in the last couple of weeks - so he had a hard time trying to swim while keeping his legs down vertically-but he has done great, too. Ryan asked me yesterday if we could go to the pool today - I told him it was now closed and he quickly pointed out that we could go to an indoor pool. I guess we'll do that in a few weeks-that would probably be a good activity on a Sunday football day. I think we'll also do a round of swim lessons later in the fall - they can start at level 2, they almost have all of the skills for level 3-so hopefully we can do that next summer.
Soccer ended 2 weeks ago - the boys didn't have a very motivated team this year-they were all much more interested in playing on these rocks than playing soccer most days.
Recent things:
Tonight Luke had a little meltdown at the dinner table and responded disrespectfully to Greg when he told him to calm down. I told Luke he needed to say yes Daddy and Luke shrugged and said, "I have issues." He said it in a way to excuse his own behavior - Luke definitely has some issues, but I told him that we all have issues but that is no excuse.
Both boys give me a daily guilt trip for no longer being able to pick them up from school. Luke even told one of the other mothers about it and she told me he acted heart broken when he told her.
We are planning on taking the boys to a TCU game this year. We had initially planned on taking them to the TCU v. CSU game in October, but now we think we're going to take them to the Homecoming game in Fort Worth. I think they'll have a ton more fun at that game. TCU games are very family friendly-they even let the kids run onto the field with the football players at the beginning of the game. The boys are excited about it and asked me several times today when we're going to go. Greg asked them a few weeks ago if they wanted to go to a Broncos game or a TCU game, they both said TCU - smart boys.
Luke spends his days at school drawing pictures-he comes home with a portfolio every day. Last week he came home with this one below - it is a laptop computer. He also made 2 paper cell phones so we could have a phone conversation with each other. Ryan has been drawing super cute pictures of all 4 of us on a boat - he even includes a telescope, the sail, water, and himself driving.
I'll try and do a better job taking pictures and blogging - things should calm down some in the next few weeks.
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