Happy Hair Day!

Rylan and Sofie are learning the letter H at school. Letter H is no longer Horrible Hair, like when I was little. He is now Happy Hair. And so last Thursday was Happy Hair Day! Sofie's hair was easy, because it's so long and you can twist it, braid it, curl it, etc. Rylan's hair, wouldn't do anything. So in the end, I used an entire large can of hairspray and fixed him up. I think he looks like a little gangsta' from the fifties.




Doesn't he look cute? My Mom thinks he looks like Alfalfa...

Rylan Soccer

Two weekends ago, was picture day for soccer. However, the younger kids from the instructional league weren't offered pictures. So I took some pictures of Rylan and his team.

Camping

Last weekend we went to Mulberry Grove IL to Cedarbrook RV park. It was our first trip out with the new camper. It rained a lot, but we had a great time.

Our friend...

Wade found this little guy in our backyard last night and everytime you petted (Is petted a word?) him he croaked. It was so cute.

More Noah Soccer Pictures...

Noah's coach posted a few pics of Noah on facebook, and of course I couldn't figure out how to link them so I'll post them for you...

On the bottom photo, Noah is the little boy in the green shirt directly in front of the little boy wearing the red shirt. And that's Wade in the background. Green shirt, tan pants...

Our first call from the school nurse...

So yesterday about 10:30am, as I am slaving away at work. (Ok, in reality I was probably on facebook...) My cell phone rings and it's the crazies school. That wasn't an immediate red flag because they're always calling. So as I answered, I was surprised when it wasn't the secretary calling to set up more IEP meeting's for Noah and Sofia. But, as soon as the words school nurse left her mouth, I knew she was calling about Rylan. He inherited my innate sense of grace and balance. And his boo boo's seem near constant. Apparently he and another little boy ran into each other and Rylan's face hit the pavement. She assured me, and you can imagine how reassuring these words were, that he was alert and acting normal and didn't seem to need to go to the emergency room. I had my Mom take a photo of his face so Wade and I could see. It's the photo posted above. By bedtime last night, he appeared to be getting a black eye and a large dark blue bruise over the whole left side of his face. When I got home, and checked his backpack I had a "To the parent who's child had a head injury" note in his book back... His name was written in the blank where you write the student's name, and the nurse had initialed the bottom. Seriously? It happens so often there's a form letter.

Labor Day Weekend at Whippoorwill Lake

This past weekend for Labor Day, we took the camper to Whippoorwill Lake. The weather was supposed to be scattered showers all weekend. However, when we got up Saturday morning it was nothing short of a downpour. And no end appeared in sight. We packed up, loaded the truck, hooked up the camper and loaded the kids, all in soak you to the bone rain. Wade had to change clothes for the drive, because he was soaked. We made almost the entire 2 hour drive in this same hard rain. I think Wade and I were both waiting for the other to call the trip off. But 15 minutes before we arrived at the campground the rain stopped. And by the time we got the camper set up and everything unpacked the weather was perfect for swimming. The rain never returned. We spent three days swimming, fishing and playing outside.