What has changed in a year? Um, a lot.
Let’s see...we added a whole new human to our family. Graham. He is our very favorite.
Pandemic.
Bryan became an independent public adjuster.
We lived with family for a few months.
We moved to a new house in a new town.
Hayes started kindergarten.
😅 I’m tired.
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Lily also went to her first gymnastics class this morning, so I suppose for the sake of starting somewhere as far as photos go, I’ll start there.
She loved it and ran around saying things like “SUPER SPEED! YEAH!” If you know her than you know that this is “so Lily”. She makes me laugh (and also makes me SO stinking tired) on an hourly basis.
She was very concerned about getting too hot (🙄), getting to take a turn on the uneven bars, and getting to learn “back flips”. We hit the jackpot and basically got a private lesson since there was only one other girl in her class. She can’t wait to go back and I can’t wait, either!
I took baby Graham’s 10 month photos today (I still need to edit them for Instagram and am also two weeks behind.)
Isn’t he just the cutest little thing. I can’t with him. He was posing for the phone big time today and it was so funny. He is about to cut at least two more teeth on top (he may already have but I can’t ever get a good enough look!) He is such a dream baby. (Except for when he misses nap time like today when we were at gymnastics. It was not exactly fun to hold a squirmy baby while wearing a mask in hot gym but you do what you have to do I guess. 😉)
He is also FINALLY consistently sleeping in his crib! I say this like it’s his fault when it isn’t, we just have had too crazy of a life to move him from the Nap Nanny until the last few weeks.
On the big boy front, they have LOVED being in school and I pray/worry every day that it stays that way and that schools stay open. I’m tempted to delete this just so I don’t jinx anything but I will leave it (for now). Our school district was literally the only 5A district in the metroplex to start in-person, but that’s a topic for another post!
Here are a few photos of their first day for the sake of making sure it is documented.
I’m not kidding I was just staring at his newborn fingers and toes two hours ago.
This one, too!
I just about had to grab Hayes by the collar to keep him from jumping out of the moving van on the first day of kindergarten. Since we weren’t allowed to walk them in this year I had to snap a quick picture as he basically ran into the school. (I would be more sad but quite frankly the disappointment from the amount of “normal” things not happening this year has started to be replaced with a really fun numbness in what I assume is some sort of coping mechanism.)
Precious boys! Ugh. I love them so much and wish time would not be such a complete thief. We’ve had great reports from both boys regarding their teachers (whom I’ve never met in person but seem very adorable over Zoom!) This is a weird world, y’all.
I’m going backwards a bit but since I’m apparently turning this into a school year post I feel that I must share our back to school dinner which we have the night before school starts. I very last minute decided to decorate the table this year with the boys school supplies and am already planning my for table next year. I love this stuff.
I also did our tradition of laying out backpacks and their “first day” outfits (and I will do it for as long as they will let me....) and put together some easy/ lazy but IMO cute and useful little gifts for their teachers (because I’ve learned a few things about teacher gifts and the key is that they really just want a good gift card and something they actually use like fancy pencils. It’s not as fun as I would like but it’s the truth.)
In other news, we have been absolutely loving our new neighborhood, including its proximity to the grocery store and Sonic (FIVE minutes), but probably our most favorite thing has been our neighbors and street! The kids have a blast running around and in and out of houses every night with the other neighborhood kids.
Here is Hayes at our neighbors birthday party which included a “bubble truck”. I did not know these were a thing but now I’m glad I do!
Here are my kids with two of our other neighbors having a movie night with lots of popcorn and sugar(And the lovely backdrop of our house which is clearly still in need of decor and paint.)
We’ve also really enjoyed the neighborhood pools the two times were able to snag tickets for the evening (it’s times like these that I find my 3am insomnia very beneficial because without it we would have been out of luck and someone else would have snatched them up!!)
Bye!
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