Category: 2021

J was very excited for his first meet, freestyle. He got in 8th for individual and made the relay as A3 and they got 2nd. I am so proud of him for trying something, even though he may not be the fastest.

E’s first swim meet was great! He did amazing and got 7th place for individual and made the relays as B3 and they got 2nd.

Joy wanted to bless you all with this cute picture of herself, showing you a cute, little strawberry. Joy enjoyed her first swim meet, by playing with her cousin and eating lots of snack food.

J started building his lego set! It was happiness at first sight. J also had his first swim team practices. It went very well and he loves swimming.

E was excited to build Legos. However his first week of swim team was rough. The first day he got out of the water after swimming a few laps. I didn’t prepare him well for swimming for an hour. He had a hard time breathing. Next day was progress, he stayed in the pool, but didn’t swim all the laps as panic set in and breathing became difficult. The last day of the week, he was asking to go to swim team practice!

Joy is my little fish. She loves her swimming class with two girls around her age. She likes the treasure hunt and gets the maximum amount of toys allowed and loves putting her head under the water.

We are all done with school!!!! J did great and was so happy to be on summer break. We made friends this week in the greenbelt park. J is so friendly and was immediately playing a big game of hide and seek.

E keeps losing teeth and literally losing them. He lost is top tooth while eating a bean burrito and couldn’t find it.

update: I found E’s tooth 3 days later when I saw what looked like a small popcorn kernel on the floor. I picked it up to discover E’s tooth!

Joy posed for me. She still has the mess of yogurt on her face, but I love her so.

 

 

A little blurry, but this was Awana’s 2020-2021!!! The kids did so well at a new church this year, making friends with students and leaders.

J did amazing at Awana’s. He memorized four extra verses every week to earn gold. We found out at the award ceremony that he was the only kid in T&T to finish gold. Dadda did give him huge incentive of a big lego set.

We need to work with the boys, they ran across the stage and never looked at us. E was crazy, he completed his book and extra credit book by Christmas. He did an extra, extra credit book to keep him busy.

Joy was magical, she spread joy to her entire class and made so many new friends. She was great at completing a verse or two every week.

It is spring piano recital time! Josias did so well playing Wild Rider. He is improving weekly on his piano and worked well on his performance.

E played two pieces at his piano recital, Minuet in F Major and Sonatina in G Major. He did great on both his pieces and is my little performer.

The boys with their teacher, Miss Julie

Awana’s theme night was favorite Bible hero. Joy chose Mary as she loves babies and really liked having baby Jesus in tow. She was so cute and continued to play Mary for many days afterwards.

We got a little splash pad for Joy that J liked as well. Getting wet on a hot day is always wonderful. J has been climbing trees in the green belt, this one required a little help from Dadda.

E also loves playing in the water and must keep up with big brother in climbing trees.

Joy loves her new swimsuit and splash pad! She played a lot in it and sitting in the middle getting soaked. Not to be outdone by brothers she had Dadda put her in the tree!

J did two big bike rides. The first was to downtown Chandler, the second to church. He did great on both. Both boys did wheelbarrow running across the lawn near the City of Chandler  office buildings. J made it almost all the way across.

E also did very well on the two bike rides. He likes leading, which sometimes causes fights between the brothers.

Joy biked by herself all the way to church, over 1 mile one way! She loved being a big girl riding her bike the whole way.

J turned 9!!! He celebrated with a Dutch Bros drink, lunch at Joe’s BBQ, ice cream from Topo and finished with dinner at Joe’s Farm Grill. He loves Star Wars, Legos and hanging with friends.

E has become quite the climber. He can know touch the ceiling in spots of the fire place. It gives me minor hard attacks, but he loves it.

Joy made more friends at a neighborhood water Sunday funday. She tried to bring a water balloon home, but it broke when showing it to Dadda.

J loves building, whether with duplos, legos, pavers, paper or foam/cardboard. He quickly put together this Statue of Liberty model.

E loves to play with Joy. He will have tea parties, dress up, build duplos/legos and forts.

Joy named the watermelon, “lemon” and the cucumber “stick”. She loved eating “lemon” and with each bite said “bye friend”.

This week we had the kids each pick a dinner. J picked hot dogs/hamburgers.

E picked waffles. He loves waffles.

Joy picked pesto pasta. She loves her carbs!