Last Day of School

A nice sugary start to the last day of school.

Brett on the 1st day of 6th grade and the last.

Jake on the 1st day of 2nd grade and the last.

Brylee on the 1st of Kindergarten and the last.

The last day of school assembly.  

Go J!

And Brylee singing "Moving on to 1st Grade"

Such a bittersweet time.

It reminds me how fast they are growing up.  

We gave the most amazing teachers see you later hugs. 

Teachers that I actually got teary eyed saying goodbye too. 

All the kids were blessed with incredible teachers. 

Now on to summer vacation.

We have many things on our summer bucket list!

2nd Grade Bowling

Today was the 2nd Grade Bowling Field Trip.  

There is no other place I would rather be than with my favorite 2nd grader in the whole world!

Mrs. Klinge and some of her crew.

Waiting oh so patiently....

You would of thought the boy was throwing a baseball.

Good for a spare!....thanks to the handy dandy bumpers.

A quick milk and cookie break between games.

Fun to bowl with Christina and Tyler.

Jake and his buddies.

What a great way to spend the 2nd to last day of school!

Bikers

These two beautiful ladies have been showing up in the morning to ride to school with Jake.

 

and they are off!

Speech

Little Jake only had a handful of words at age 3.

If he was talking to me the whole sentence was Mamamamamamama.

He started speech therapy the month he turned 3.

Speech has been part of his life for the past 5 years.

He has had some amazing speech teachers. 

Mrs. A has been his speech teacher since Kindergarden.

Mrs. A makes him feel special and important.

Jake loves speech days!

  So much so that others in his class were faking speech issues to try to go to speech with Jake.

It finally happened...Jake was dismissed from speech.

He. Was. Devastated.

He says he never wants to leave speech.

Being the great speech teacher she is, once in awhile she will swing by and pick up Jake just for fun.

Thank you Mrs. A!!!

A link to listen to Jake work so hard on speech at age 4

http://cav11402.blogspot.com/2008/12/jake-and-speech.html

Filled with the Love of Jesus

 

This young man is so incredibly feisty and at the same time has a huge heart and it filled with the love of Jesus.

I went to a volunteer breakfast at school and this is the card my J made for me.

Thank you for helping me with reading

Jesus ♥ you

This page he time stamped 9:44 am

During his free writing time he wrote me a letter.

Dear mom I ♥ so much.

you are like a ☼ that lites up the wrld i had a graet day at school oh ya

are new kid sent us a Letter

XOXO Love Jacob

.....and around the page he wrote John 3:16....

for god so Love the world that he gave his one and olny son that how ever believs shald not parish but have a etrnal life.

 

You can take Jesus out of the school but you can't take Jesus out Jake.

 

My heart swells with love for this boy.

Thank you Jesus for going to school with Jake.

The Turkey Tango

Brylee and Jake had some sweet dance moves at the Harvest Dance Program at school.

The favorite being the Turkey Tango.  Unfortunately I do not have a video of Jacob dancing the Tango because Mama was dancing with him!

S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G

Thursday nights...the night Jake studies for his spelling test.

It is filled with tears, complaining, breaking of pencil lead and wrinkled paper.

But not on this particular Thursday night.  

Mama pulled out a mirror and a marker.

And he studied with a smile on his face.

My firecracker came home with a perfect spelling test!

Go J!

Halloween 2012

At school I found Batman... 

and a Winter Fairy. 

My favorite trick-or-treaters showed up. 

Off to get some goodies. 

Brett's first year he thought he was too cool to dress up :(

He did tape a quarter on his back and was a "quarterback" at school. 

We gathered some friends and walked the neighborhood until there was complaining of cold hands. 

Then we headed to church. 

Brett hung out with his youth group friends and watched a Fear Factor eating contest and shot paintball guns. 

They dumped their buckets and crashed hard.

School Pictures

Jake 2nd Grade 2012-2013

Brylee Kindergarten 2012-2012

Brett 6th Grade 2012-2013

I Love You

My Baby is at her first day of Kindergarten....all day long....right now as I type.  She was only a little nervous.  I wrote I love you on her hand and told her to look at it if she was nervous or missed me. I know one thing, I sure miss her and her brothers!

Last year Brett watched out for Jake at school.  He was the strong, brave big brother.  Now Brett has moved on to Middle School  

This morning I tried to tell Jake it was now his turn to take care and protect Brylee....make sure she has someone to sit with on the bus....make sure she wasn't scared when she got off the bus...make sure she has a friend at 1st recess.  If you know Jake he is is a feisty one!  I heard "I know, I know Mom."  To say the least not a very reassuring big brother.  And lets be honest I forced him to hold her hand for the above picture.

They jumped on the bus...notice Jake not paying much attention to his little sister behind him.  But Brylee was fine.  She did not even look back.  She jumped right on!

Poor Brett is sick today.  On the way to the doctor we stopped by the school to spy on the Jake and Brylee.  Brylee was running around holding hands with several girls and was just fine.  And guess what Jake was doing?  That's right, he was following her every step.  Not trying to play with her just guarding her, protecting her.  Just like the AWESOME big brother he is.

And a picture yesterday of my Brett walking down to catch the bus at 6:44 am....that actually forgot to pick up this entire block.  It was a nice long 35 minute wait on the first day of school.  This year he looked so little standing with a bunch of High Schoolers....he was the only kid in Middle School at the bus stop.  Brett was a nervous wreck about starting Middle School.  I am very proud of him.  He faced his fears jumped on that bus and walked into the Great Big Middle School and had the best first day of Middle School.

First Days