It has been nearly 6 week since I last updated this blog or my personal one. Lots of fun things have happened in our house since April 5
th. Where should I start?
Somewhere around the 17
th of April
Xander and I witnessed a most extraordinary event. We went to see The Wizard of Oz...performed live on stage...at the School for the Blind and Visually Impaired. It was so awesome!! We absolutely loved it!
Xander loves the Wizard of Oz and I thought this would be a cool way for him to learn about disabilities and limitations and pressing on through them. It was super fun! And they were great!
I have been doing a cooperative preschool with
Xander the last couple of years. 6 kids rotate in the homes of each of the students where in the mom of each student teaches. Good times and very entertaining! Our last
field trip was a trip to a ceramics shop where
Xander painted a very cool green horse. Gotta love the free thinking. He is definitely not inhibited my colors of realism.
This is a frame of a very funny video that would not up load. I will work on it, but let me tell you about it. My first born, a very handsome young gent, turned 14 on the day this video was taken. We went to dinner with our friends the Smiths (Jill, Stan, Sam and Paul) at the Texas Roadhouse. Jill graciously mentioned is was Benson's birthday before she realized what would happen to him. Just as we were preparing to pay the bill an head to the movie "Iron Man" they rolled out a saddle, had him climb on and
proceeded to petition the other restaurant patrons to join us in wishing him a Texas Birthday with a big
YEE HAA! It was good fun!
I can hardly believe it has been 14 years that we have had this guy. He was one amazing kid! We are looking forward to spending the first half of our summer watching him play baseball for the McNeil High School Incoming Freshman Baseball team.
On the evening of Benson's Birthday we first attended Natalie's Spring Spectacular dance performance. There is a video of that too that won't up load (check back). Here is her costume. They danced to Billy Joel's "Still Rock and Roll to Me" (which brought back a flood of memories of me, my brother Josh, and friend Kyle Cousins, playing rock band as kids in the back yard with white bucket drums and tennis racket guitars. Our other favorite song to perform was "We are the Champions" by Queen). She is a great dancer and it was super fun to watch her!
On May 15
th we celebrated her 12
th Birthday. What the heck???? How is this possible? We had a super fun birthday party on Friday night with 15 of her closest friends. She wanted to invited 30, but we had to
reign her in. We had pizza, made movies, sang, ate candy and popcorn to watch said movies, jumped on the trampoline, and so on. We had a blast!
I don't remember where we had been but Xander fell asleep in the car. I brought him in and he sat down at the bottom of the stairs, to take off his shoes as usual, I thought. When I came back he had gone back to sleep right there.
Here is Xander with his diploma, graduating from BusyBeePreschool.
Here are all his BusyBee friends:Matthew, Ethan, Xman, Audrey, Marion and Lauren.
And all the BusyBee teachers and my friends:(back row): Debra, Jackie, Kristen; (front row):Audrey, Stacey and me.
This week we will celebrate Xander's 5th birthday...5!! In the fall Benson will start High School and Xander will start Kindergarten. What the heck??? Are you kidding me? I am not old enough for this!!
Is it really possible for Xander to be 5? Could it really have been 5 years ago that we brought that little guy into this world? It has been an amazing 5 years! Knowing all along that he was our last I have taken lots of time to hold him, follow him around, do things I didn't have time to do with the others when they were little. Yep. Today Xander is 5 and he is a joy! And I will enjoy him today and everyday! 
