First Game!

Syd's first hockey game was great!  The name of her team is the Duck's and they won tonight 3-1, the third goal was made by none other than Syd herself!  She shot the goal and her eyes got bigger and bigger and when the puck went in, arms flew in the air and a smile that could be seen a mile away lit her face!! It was great!

Field Day and Future NHL Player

Field Day was perfect this year!  Usually it's freezing or hot and this year was blue skies.  The kids had a great time and Syd is super proud of her ribbons.

Syd started hockey last week and she LOVES it!!  She was getting all of her gear at the skating place but everything was way to big so we went on a shopping spree and got all of her hockey gear, so it all fits perfectly!  She is really enjoying learning how to skate on her inline skates and doing "hockey stops".  She has one more practice and then the games start!

Of course Alex has to get in on the action :-)

Fun in the mountains!

Alex fell asleep as soon as we got on the paddle boat!

Back in a Routine

Syd started 2nd grade last week and absolutely loves it!  Of course she only went 3 1/2 days, but I think she'll still love it even after 5 days.  She's in class with her best bud Teagan and her teacher is a lot of fun.  Can't get much better than that, until I start volunteering and then she'll have the coolest mom ever! 

Alex is doing great in the braces!  He stands most of the time and is starting to walk more along the furniture and behind his truck.  He thinks his shoes are the neatest things and is signing "shoes" and trying to say it also.  Comes out "oooooooz" but we know what he means :-)  We haven't measured him yet to see how tall he is but he seems huge!  Some day he's going to eat us out of the house!

Happy Day!!

We are FINALLY out of the casts and into braces!  He'll be in them 23/7 for 3 months and then we'll slowly cut down on the hours everyday.  Eventually he'll only wear them at night.  Alex seemed pretty unsure of them at first, but he's already crawling, flipping around on his knees and standing on his knees.  Pretty sure he'll be walking very soon!   He was very happy to get his casts off this morning!  The incision sites aren't even visable but for a tiny bruise on one foot.  Now we get to finally take him swimming, even if it's only for half an hour.                            

Girls Weekend

Me, mom and Syd had a girls weekend in Denver and we had so much fun!  We're going to make it a yearly tradition to have just the girls do something before school starts.  We had great meals, lots of swimming, saw pretty butterflies and had a ton of giggles!

Summer seems to be winding down and it's not even August yet.  Syd starts school on the 16th and we've got all of her supplies ready to go.  Except for the recorder, not sure I'm looking forward to that sound flowing through the house.  Syd took a bunch of art and science classes at a local store instead of a summer camp.  It worked out well instead of having all the fun stuff over in one week.  Syd will also be starting inline hockey in September.  She and James play in the driveway all the time and is super excited to "slam someone into the boards!"   She's decided to grow her bangs out, which will be tough for the tomboy who refuses to wear any kind of barrette in her hair, not even a bobby pin.  Wish me luck!

 Alex is doing great.  He gets around like he doesn't even have casts on, walking along anything he can.  He's been with us for just shy of 5 months now.  Seems like yesterday and seems like forever.  He's becoming very lovey and clingy with us and it's great!  He loves to grab our face (sometimes a leg or arm), wrap his hands around whatever he's grabbed and lay his head on you.  It's so sweet!  His little 'tude is starting to show now too.  He pretends to cry when he doesn't get what he wants, he smacks and yells when he's mad at you.  It's cute, except when he kicks you during a diaper change with the casts.  I have a few more bruises than I would like :-)  Casts come off in 2 weeks and will be remeasured to see if his heels are where they need to be.  If they are, we'll have to remeasure for his braces.  If they don't fit, back into the casts until new braces are in.  If his heels haven't dropped to where they want them, back into casts until the next surgery.  Here's hoping for stretched heels!!!!