School Days

Augusta also brought the start of school! Connor Started K5 at AJ Wittenberg. It is a school with engineering and science curriculum. I think its an amazing school, and so far he is doing so well. He is learning to read and its awesome to see him learn something new everyday.  He has a teacher that he adores and in his eyes is never wrong.  She is so patient with the kids.  He is learning so much I know I wasn’t learning that much when I was 5. 

This year they have been on several field trips all ready. The Children's Museum, Happy Cow and High Cotton downtown for lunch.  I was luckily enough to head to Happy Cow with all of the k5 students.  Happy Cow is a creamery that makes their own milk, butter and cheese from their cows.  When we walked into the building where the milking is done, all at once they said ewwwww… and boy were they right it stunk bad.  He still has a couple more field trip to go on before the end of the year. 

Ohh and the best thing I forgot to mention is that they wear uniforms!!!!!!!  I love it, there is no fight about cloths, he has 2 color pants to pick from and 3 shirts. 

Disney World!!!!!

OK so I am having to post backwards because I am super slack.  A chance came up for me and Connor to take a trip to Disney World the weekend before school started, and we could not pass it up.  It was for 4 night 5 days.  I was tight budget wise and seeing I had decided 3 weeks in advance I knew we would be able to do only 1 day at the parks.  I was also afraid of the drive.  I borrowed a DVD player for the ride.  I was stoked and couldn't wait to let Con know.  I made a gift bag up with Disney theme things for him to do in the car.  I wasn’t going to tell him until Wednesday the night before we left.  One because I wanted it to be a surprise but the main reason was I didn't want him to go on and on for a week if it was time to go yet.  He knew the concept of Disney.  He always sees the castle at the beginning of his movies, and I told him one day we would go.  So come Wednesday it was time to revile the surprise.  I  had my mom record it, I was really hoping for a memorable response. It wasn’t the exact memorable response I was hoping for but it was memorable.  He wasn’t happy at all.  He said he wanted to stay home.  I can’t help but look back now and laugh, because he is such a home body. 

Thursday morning we get up and leave and the 7 hour drive was not bad at all Connor did really well in the car.  That night we went out to eat and played at an arcade.  We made it a early night because Friday we were going to Magic Kingdom.  Another surprise I had for him was for him to get dressed up like a pirate.  It was so much fun!  He loved it.  We also rode on some of the rides.  It was hot but not as bad as I was expecting it to be.  Come about 3pm he was over it and wanted to go to the hotel.  So eventually we made it out of there about 4:30.  What I learned was that you defiantly can’t do everything in one day.  It would have been perfect if we stayed on propriety to avoid the traffic and be able to take a nap.  Once we were back at the hotel he saw the pool and instead of laying down wanted to swim. 

Friday in the middle of the night Connor woke up throwing up.  He was sick all threw the night and into the morning.  In the early afternoon he finally stopped throwing up and I had to drag him across the street to get meds and fluids.  He was so pitiful and I felt horrible about having to take him out but with it being just me and him I had no other choice.   I let him go in his pajamas and brought along a bag incase he got sick, which he did.  There was a pizza hut right by the hotel so I also stopped and ordered a big enough pizza I could eat for lunch and dinner.  We went back and spent the rest of the day and night in the hotel.  Connor still was sick part of the night.  Sunday we woke up and he was feeling better but we took it easy.  We went to Wonderworks which is a science museum, and then that evening walked around universal.  Monday morning we were up bright and early and headed home.  In all it was a good trip even with the sickness. 

 

New Year

Well today is the start of 2013!  Its hard to believe how fast time moves when you are an adult.  I know I have said this over and over, but I am truly going to start.. well try my hardest to write more.  I love reading back over past blogs.  I ended off with Summer in the last post and so much has happened, which I will be catching up.

This year I feel like is going to be a awesome year for us.  I have some personal goals set that I plan on achieving.  I feel like within this past year I have really found out about my self and just kind of became who I was meant to be.  I am comfortable with my life, I love being a mom.  It truly is the hardest job ever but I feel like I am learning to be a better one everyday.  I can’t wait to see what this year has to offer.  This year we have no milestones and nothing big planned unlike the past couple years.  Here is to 2013!

Summer Came and Went

Here is a quick view of our summer.  It came and went by to fast. 

The Yard is finally coming along.  I planted two knock out rose bushes.

He loves yogurt mountain 4th of July

Truck Day at the Farmers Market Downtown Greenville

 

 

Connor has discovered his love of chicken wings just like his momma!

We had a date the the Lion King!  It was a awesome performance although pricey it was was well worth it. 

 

Now that he is 5 he was able to get his own library card!

Sleeping with ALL of his stuffed animals one night when he got made at me!

This was the first summer Connor was able to go down and spend a couple days with Cousin Nikki and all the kids, without me staying with him.  We went to GA for the weekend and the picture below was Connor and Adi in the hotel room.  It looks like they are plotting something all ready.  Con stayed down there for a total of 3 days and had a fun time.  Although when he came home he said he was never going anywhere ever again and not even to Shell’s.  He is such a home body.  I am glad I made him stay and go, it does him good to get use to other things,  Cant say he got used to their big dog though.  We are still working on that.

 

Nikki and Nick took all the cousins to the lake for the day!

After the summer Olympics and watching swimming, Con decided that was what he wanted to be. 

Good Bye K-4

The school year came and went. It seemed to go by so fast! At the end of the year they had a little performance that I went to and got to see Connor and his classmates sing. It was so cute!
Connor loved going to school and being in Mr. Bannister's class! I am proud to say he only missed 2 days! One for a trip to Ohio and the other we just decided we both needed another day added to the weekend, and he was starting to come down with a cold.
I feel like he has learned so much. I hope that 4k was a huge step in getting him ready and even ahead for K5. I remember how difficult school was for me and how much I hated school and how much of a fight it was for me and my mom from 3rd grade on. From 3rd grade till 12th is a long time to fight every morning. I know there were really no other choices for me then. I honestly think my problem was I was bored nothing intrigued me and once I became bored, that's it, it was over for me and I stopped paying attention and caring. Now I know there are other options so I am hoping to always keep him intrigued by whatever he is doing. That is a big decision factor that lead me to the School AJ Whittenburg for 5k.

 

True Friendship is about ..

True friendship isn’t about being inseparable, it’s about being separated and nothing changes. 

Growing up I always had a "best friend" but I never understood the true meaning until I meet Mary. Yes they way we become friends is quite weird to some people but hey it worked for us! We were both pregnant at the same time and had both joined a group April 2007 babies. We clicked and hit it off. That was over 6 years ago! Since then our friendship has bloomed into this thing we call best friends/ soul mates. She is completely my person (for those of you who watch Grey's Anatomy). We talk every single day. The only time I can remember not taking a day was when I went on a cruise in 2010, I think we went without talking for 2 days. In May me and Connor were very fortunate to be able to go and visit her and her family in Ohio. This was the first time all the kids meet. Luckily me and Mary have been able to see each other a little more then the kids have. The first time we meet was Sept 2010 when I flew to Ohio, she then came to see me that Dec of 2010, and now this past May. We had a lot of fun up there. We took a long weekend and flew. This was Connor's first time on a plane and he was excited. We flew into Columbus and then visited COSI. It is a Children's museum, and there were all kinds of neat things to do. The rest of the weekend consisted of hanging out with the family and then taking a day trip to the Zoo. The zoo there is HUGE, and so many cool animals that we don't have at our small zoo. My favorite I think had to be the polar bears! I am so glad I have someone that is there for me no matter what and I can tell anything to and will not pass judgment over me. She is my person!

Mary even had a way with Con to get him near the goat, and brush it.  This was huge for Con, as he is afraid of animals.  You can still see in the picture he is still ready to bolt! 

all the kids, good picture even if they are not all looking.  1st plane ride!   A building in Columbus, Ohio

Family Pictures

I absolutely LOVVVVVE pictures.  I had wanted family pictures done because we had never had any done of the 5 of us since Connor and Kyle entered the family.  I also had a major project I wanted to tackle for a wall, and do canvas prints. You can see the post here. 

I knew the kind of look I was looking for, for the pictures. The photographers I had used before didn’t offer that.  I searched for a good two months for the right photographer and one that was in our price range.  I was sent to Rachael Hughes from another photographer I first inquired with.  I loved the way she used the sun at sunset in her pictures.  I fell in love and had to figure out 5 peoples schedules for it to work and book a couple months out in order for everything to fit in place but in the end it was defiantly worth it.  The day of it had been raining and was very cloudy.  Rachael offered to reschedule for us, but I was very eager to have these done, and not to mention the headache it was to arrange the time to fit with all of us. She assured me the pictures would still look great although the sun was hiding behind the clouds.  We drove an hour away to her and Michelle and Kyle drove and meet us there.  I defiantly wanted something outside and in a field.  I had no idea of somewhere around here that we could use but she had a place in Greenwood. 

Needless to say the pictures turned out amazing and I couldn’t have imagined or asked for anything more.