Quick Update

Just a quick update with some random photos of each kid from my phone. Cade got his braces off after Easter. It took me a while to get used to him without braces. He will have them again in a few years, but he needs to lose more teeth. This time the braces were to expand his palette and fix his cross bite and push his front teeth together so his side teeth could come down. Cade has started baseball and is doing very well. He has had 2 games with his part time travel team and although they lost both games, he did well. He started pitching the first game and was the closer for the second game. It makes me so nervous when he is pitching. He does very well, and he doesn't seem to worry if he walks anyone, but it seems like such a high pressure position. He is also playing short stop. It has been brutally cold and insanely windy at all of the games and practices so far, so hopefully the weather will improve and baseball will be a little more fun.

This little girl has been taking gymnastics since January, which started her addiction to leotards. Starting last week, she now goes to a "tworiffic tumbling class" where she goes to a classroom for 45 minutes and then to a gymnastics class. I drop her off and come back for her. She LOVED it last week. In the class, they played with play-do, read a story, made a craft and sang a song. I'm looking into preschool for her next year 2 or 3 days/week. She is so funny right now! The other day she said "I'm going to do something funny." Then she took a pretend piece of bread and held it between her legs and made it drop to the floor and said, "Oh no! I just went poo poo on the floor!" We all died laughing so that made her do it again and again. She has started a lot of potty talk and I have no idea where it comes from. Maddi and Cade don't do potty talk anymore. Maybe because she's potty trained? She is a funny little girl and is very into pretend and her baby dolls and puppies right now. o

The kids have had some really good teachers over the years. This picture is with Maddi's first grade teacher, Mrs. Klick, and Catelyn and Aleigh (who she dances with) and her daughter Abigail (who used to dance too). They came to Maddi's last competition to watch Abigail's friends dance and Mrs. Klick was excited to watch Catelyn (she is in Mrs. Klick's class this year) and Maddi too. We have a few weeks without and dance competitions, so that will be nice. Maddi has time on the weekends to hang out with her little sister and her friends, which she always enjoys. m