Another Fun Packed Saturday

We had so many fun things to do today!

The three older kids had their soccer games in a nice compacted time frame this morning ... 10, 11:45 and 12:30. We packed a budget friendly lunch ... a cooler with a couple big sub sandwiches, apples, yogurt tubes and lots of water ... to eat during the short breaks between games. This was our first "hot" game of the season, and the kids handled it as well as could be expected - they were hot and red faced after each of their games, but no one sat down of the field or gave up! The air temperature wasn't that bad, in the low 80s, but the sun was bright and hot, with little to no breeze.



After the soccer games, Rebecca had a birthday party to attend. She was to go dressed as her favorite pop star, and choose Jordan Pruitt. Since I had never heard of her before, we googled her and found this music video on YouTube, it just happens to be Becca's favorite Jodan Pruitt song. In this video Jordan wears skinny jeans, a sparkly shirt, and heels. So we went for a similar look in a totally different color palate. Jeweled tank from Sears - something I thought might make a good addition to the girls dress up tub - black leggings, and funky wedges from the dress up tub. She had such a good time at the party doing hair and make-up, singing along with friends to all their favorite pop stars.



Madison is a huge Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana fan and when we started talking about what Becca wanted to take as a gift, one of her suggestions was a Hannah Montana pillowcase. I was lucky enough to find some Hannah Montana fabric that wasn't too obnoxious or over the top, and it felt pretty good too, at Walmart - Hannah Montana centeral, and found coordinating fabrics at Hancock.

Since this was her 8th birthday and she has grandparents and cousins who live close by, I thought a little sleep over "kit" would be fun. I used every inch of the 2-1/4 yards I purchased and was able to squeeze out a pillowcase, pj bottoms and a draw string bag to put everything in.



After the birthday party GR took the three older kids to the KU football game with his parents. We look forward to this game every year! We've attended this football game - KU Band Day - for the last 4 years, and the kids really enjoy it. This year we opted to have Anna and Alex stay home with me. Alex is quite a little football fan, and when I couldn't find the game on TV, Alex and I watched Invisible on TNT instead. GR said their seats weren't fantastic, but they were down by KUs end zone and had a great view of three touch downs before leaving after half time.

Seussical the Musical

The second graders were the first to have their music program this year ... after only 7 days in music! Like the 2nd graders last year, they did Seussical the Musical, and it was phenomenal!

GR had classes to teach at the hospital, and wasn't able to join us, but Grandma and Grandpa came. Bob and Diane got us front row seats by going an hour early, allowing me to video tape the entire show so GR and Emily can watch it together later on.

Monkey See, Monkey Do

With three kids playing soccer, we have soccer practice three different nights of the week. Becca and Sam both practice on fields adjacent to playgrounds - ingenious! So while they are at practice, the other kids get to run and play! We've never spent this much time playing at parks, and it's been wonderful! At one of our latest playground nights, Emily did this:


After her second or third time up the parallel bars, I decided to give it a try ... with great effort, I made it to the top, and no I won't be posting the extremely unflattering pictures GR took of me pulling myself up this contraption. One would think lugging a 13lb baby and a 30lb toddler would be good exercise, but I clearly need to be doing more.

This was GR and Sam's approach to climbing the parallel bars: