First Grade

Our Proud First Grader and Preschooler

Today Sam headed off to first grade. He seemed very excited and nervous all together in one little first grader. When we got to school his nerves were washed away when he found out that one of his friends from kindergarten was in his class. There was now problem when we left, except that Serafina didn't want to go!

Then came pick up. He manged to make it to the car but once inside the hunger cries and tears started to pour out. The poor guy came home starving (he manged only to eat 2 bites of sandwich at lunch) and very tired. So we broke our no TV policies and watched 3 Little Einstein shows!! Oh yes and we had chocolate milk and pudding for snack. Then we were all smiles and by dinner were very happy with how the first day went. (by the way no homework first week, lucky little dude)

After my probing into his day and then my mom questions about his day we have learned nothing more then: 1. The lunch room is really loud, and 2. He gets to play on the playground 3 times. We know nothing about went on in the actual classroom. Maybe tomorrow we will find out more about what goes on inside the class then outside the class!

I think we have a fun week ahead of us!

The following pictures our my attempts at a group shot of all three!!

Little Boy

Our baby is starting to turn into a little boy!! This summer he has become a wild man, learning to crawl (army man style), and turning to solid foods! He is into everything and always wants to be were ever his big kids are! Here a couple pictures of the little man.

Practicing eating with his hands, a little messy!

Practicing eating with a bowl and silverware.

(note the silverware works better just sitting on the tray)


Standing up!!!
Yes my little man pulled up to standing position and I just happened to have the camera!

We love ya Matteo!

Feeling Out of Touch

As the last few weeks of summer come to end I am begining to feel slightly out of touch. My mom and good friend Summer are both back at work. However Sam and Serafina are still out of school. So with all 3 kids and no help I have not been able to attend my Stroller Stride class (I tried it once and it didn't work out well). Which means I have not been able to chat with my mom friends on a regular basis.
Then our telephones stop working, then our Internet went down, and then my computer went down!! Yes all three in three days. We did mange to get the phones up and working in a day. AT&T came out and discovered that our alarm system that was interfering. (which now means we have to re-do the alarm system but that can wait). Once we got a hold of our Internet company (DigitalPuty) we found out that the person who had or Internet repeater on their roof decide to just take it down with out telling anyone!! How funny is that. DigitalPuty was getting all these calls from people with no Internet and they had no clue why. Thank goodness they did jump to and had our Internet up that day. And then there was my computer...

Good old Uncle Jon came over to fix my computer which was saying it had a keyboard failure. My dad and him worked on it for about 3 hrs and then said it was dead. The only thing worth trying now was a new motherboard, which would cost more then it's worth because of the specialized sized. He told me to take it to the dump! Well on a whim I search through my paper work and found that the computer came with a two year warranty!! YEAH. The next day I called dell and today the dell dude came out and installed the new mother board for FREE. Well....that solved the keyboard problem but then we learned that the running system was/is alson corrupt, once again I called Uncle Jon and tomorrow he will back up my computer and wipe it clean. Which means that maybe by Monday I will be up and running, phone, internet and computer. Also I am hoping to attend stroller strides Monday since they are having there grand opening here in AG!! (I am going to see if Auntie Karlee will come with me or watch 1 or 2 kids, I haven't ask yet!)

So slowly but surely I am getting back in touch with the world by Aug 25th I should be good again. It is amazing at how much of an impact technology has in our lives!! Oh and I should say a thank you to my hubby who lets me check my e-mail on his computer every night. What a great guy he is!

Dont give up

To my family and friends:

Please do not give up on my blog and me. We are still out here just been very busy. Summer has proven to be very crazy with ever day being different and new. Being out of my normal routine has caused my blogging to be put aside for a while. For a structured person this wild summer of not knowing where and when anything is going to take place, I am just hanging on for dear life. Don't get me wrong I am enjoy, no loving, every moment and would not change it for the world. But for those of you who know we well, ever week my laundry day as taken me 3-4 days to complete(oppose to one), its just wrong. So please keep checking back with me. Hopefully as the summer comes to an end and my routine returns I will find the time to wax poetically about our adventures; swimming, the beach, Santa Cruz, girl's weekend, Matteo crawling, and just good old fashion fun!!

The Bad Blogger,
Tracy