Excerising

It's easy staying in shape, when Josie wants to walk/run to the bridge. We ate homemade muffins when we got there.  She asked if we can walk to Grammys. 

First Day of School

Josie: VPK, 4

Hayes: Twadlers,2

Lily: Kindergarden, 5

Molly: 3, Preschool

Grace, Zachary, and Alexander: 3, preschool

Elizabeth: First Grade, 6

Gabriella: Preschool, part time, 3

Everyone is off to a busy school year. Josie is very excited to be in VPK and not be a napper (except on weekends). 

After school we had spaghetti dinner, as long noodles are one of the kids favorite foods for now. 

Then, over the weekend, we baked muffins, went out on the boat and celebrated Grammys 60 birthday. 

Josie's First Sleep Over

Josie's school/camp is closed the week before school starts, so she is spending time with several friends and family members. To make things easie Josie decided to sleep over Aunt Brooks house. Yup, her first sleep over without mom, dad or Hayes. Josie was the last one to fall asleep and Aunt Brook was not sure who got up first when all three kids came into her room just before 7am. 

Blake slept in his bed while Josie and Marina made a bed and slept on Blake's bedroom floor.  Aunt Brook took everyone shopping and out for Dunkin Donuts, McDonalds and Dairy Queen. WOW!!! I wonder what they are going to do Wednesday. 

Doctor Time.....still

Hayes just had his second MRI. Poor lil guy! Needless to say he was not happy about it from the moment we arrived at the hospital. He was hungry and then the attitude compounded when he got his IV; the sedation didn't come for another hour. He woke up twice during the test and messed the IV up so they had to remove it prematurely. So, of course they did not get all the images the need. I guess we'll find out soon if they got enough. 

Josie has been going to the ENT and is on a series of nose sprays and limited dairy. We go back next week to check her hearing (fluid in her right inner ear) and fingers crossed her tonsil swelling is down... 

Ice Skating

So on our Keys vacation  Josie saw a show/commercial for ice skating. So she has been asking to go ever since. We decided to go when cousin Jackson would be there since he is really good at skating and Blake and Marina went too. Jackson's advice was, "step one you go side to side like this" and off he went. He latered returned for step two, "to jump you go like this" and he jumped. I asked to repeat step one again and off he went lol. 

I only fell down once with Josie, she did really good and was skating small circles and a few feet by herself by the time we left. Oliaf even showed up and it snowed!!