Somewhere around the 17th 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 15th we celebrated her 12th 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!!
2 comments:
Holy Cow! The Hinze Clan has had a full month. It has been that way around here too. I know Chrissta can't be old enough for a high schooler and one in kindergarten because she is 5 years younger than me and I am way to young to be the Aunt of those children. Wish I could have been there for all the festivities but money and a job seem to stand in my way. I love you all though no matter what!!
Wish I could have seen B on that saddle. Bet he LOVED that. We miss you guys so much our insides hurt.
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