Family Outing

When someone FINALLY learns to ride, that means we can have family outings!!

It was a great Saturday morning, but not sure my legs will agree in the morning!

1st Grade Field Trip

Noah with some of his favorite classmates

Today was Noah's First Grade Field Trip.  They have been studying for the last month or so all about four different regions: Desert, Polar, Rain Forest & Ocean. So today we visited the San Diego Wild Animal Park.  They were able to see how different animals live in the Desert & Rain Forest regions.  

There was a lot of climbing on animal statues...

Madeline, Noah, Taylor & Madison

Noah & Madison

Noah & a Lorikeet.  He wanted to feed them, but there were so many schools at the park today, that these poor little birds were no longer hungry by the time we arrived.

Mama Bat & Baby Bat!!

Noah's 1st Grade Class

This field trip was a great way to end the month of May! 

Only 6 more days of schools....but WHO is counting?!?!?!

What a nice ride!!

Look who finally learned to ride his bike! We wondered if this day would ever come!

Student of the Week

Look who was student of the week today!  He had a great week and his teacher thought he deserved to be recognized for that.  He struggles sometimes, but once in awhile he "gets" it. 

Congratulations buddy!

Happy Easter

Happy Easter to our Family and Friends....

A Lovely Day

I wonder why it is when a special day comes around, it completely changes the way a child awakes and behaves in the morning?!  I wish every morning was a holiday, because this boy was happy, obedient, cuddly, fun.....(not the usual for a morning in our home)...

 A cute breakfast...and there was more than just heart toast, but it was gone by the time I thought of taking a picture.

 Noah had to make a valentine box.  He knew what he wanted, described it, but would not really help in making it.  So I dusted off my cricut (because I have not used it in a bit....) and cut out some sport balls so he could have his sports box!   It turned out pretty cute!

 Later that night we had a delicious dinner at home, we have been eating at home a lot, but staying home on Valentine's is way better than going out with everyone else!

 After dinner Noah received a few gifts.  He was pretty excited about getting his Mario that he had been wanting for almost 2 months.  He would talk about it all the time.  Feel the love!!

 We took a few family shots, which you would think would be simple, but family photos are never easy!

Happy Valentine's Day to all our family and friends!!

Coyote of the week

This kid has been struggling in school...with focusing, neat work, timely manner of completing his work...his teacher, whom we love, wanted to have a behavior contract with him to hopefully help him with doing better during the day.  I love that she wanted to do this together.  So we have been talking and working on doing better.  He started off pretty shaky and we both were wondering if this was going to work.  Then all of a sudden he had a fantastic week!!  He got double stars in every category for every day of the week!  We were thinking surely it was a fluke...but then it happened again!

We were so proud of him, Dad, me and his teacher!  She was super proud and awarded him the Coyote of the Week.  It was something that she wanted for him so bad.  She was sure that showing him how hard work pays off and us being proud of him would encourage him.  He's still been doing good and we are so happy for him.