Catch Up

Man, it's been awhile since I was last here with an update. Soooooooooooooooo much has been going on with us! Yeah, i know that happens a lot lately! I guess with the baby on the way it's only gonna get crazier! I'll try to highlight the big things.....

1. Baby Update!!! Looking back through it looks like I haven't posted since we found out we're expecting another baby GIRL!!! I've had 2 u/s's already confirming this. She may have been stubborn to show her heart and major organs, but was definitely not shy about mooning the camera! LOL Yup, she's DEFINITELY a GIRL!!! Perhaps even more stubborn and ornery than Bethany.... is that possible?? After the initial shock of yet "another sister", even Roman has gotten on board with the excitement as we begin to prepare for her arrival.... in just a little over NINE weeks! Yikes!!!!

2. Bible School - All 3 kids attending VBS at Celebration Center in August. They had the BEST time. It was an awesome program. They are still singing all the songs they learned there. Roman found he knew several kids his age that go there and we are now attending on occassion while still trying to figure out where we need to be. Trinity also got a new pastor that we like a lot and look forward to getting to know better. For the time being we're bouncing primarily between these two.

3. Football and Cheerleading - James is coaching flags this year while Roman is playing in minor's and the girls are cheering for flags. James team started off with a bunch of 5 year old riff-raff. About 95% of the team are newbies that have never played football. It was a rough start as they headed into their first scrimmage game matched against a team on almost entirely 7 and young 8 year olds. The size difference alone in the teams was ridiculous and his little ones folded quickly. Many ran off the field crying, most everyone else stood around dazed and confused and not listening at all as they picked their noses, their wedges, or blades of grass on the field and let the other team literally run all over them! It wasn't a pretty site and the coaching staff was more than a little frustrated. Somewhere in the mix everything just came together though! His little team of riff-raff is currently UNDEFEATED!!!! LOL How that happened we don't know, but after a 31-6 stomping last week we stopped wondering and just accepted it. They are on fire! The girls have been enjoying cheering for them too and look so cute out there shaking their booties! Poor Roman's team though has had the exact opposite season. They kicked butt in their scrimmage game, and have not won a single season game yet. Roman has been benched all season (see below) and has been blaming himself. It's been a looooooooooong season where he's concerned! Poor kid!

4. Broken Finger! - Yup, you read right, the night before the first official game of the season Roman was playing basketball before practice and fell and jammed his finger, or so we all thought. As we arrived home it kept swelling more and more and started turning black and blue all down through his hand too. I didn't like the look of it and my mommy sense told me I couldn't let him play the next morning without knowing for sure the extent of damage. Expecting to be told it was a bad jam and all was fine, Roman and I headed to the ER. The ER is never fun on a Friday night, BUT even though we were there for almost 4 hours, I must say the staff was fantastic. Getting through the paperwork crap took the majority of that. Once we were fully in the system the ped on site sent him straight to Xrays before being seen saving us a ton of time! Once we got back to Xrays we were home in less than an hour! And the news was official.... his left index finger was broke just above his lower nuckle and overtop his growth plate. NO FOOTBALL. We went the next week expecting to be casted and hoping he could play then, but the break was into his growth plate, though does not appear to have done any permanent damage, and so they opted to hard splint/soft cast him. NO FOOTBALL. He took on the role of waterboy and did it with a smile despite the joking he got from friends and feeling miserable everytime they lost as the coaches bit their tongues with every urge to put him in. Poor kid. He's really been beating himself up over it. Oh, and despite it being his lefthand (he IS lefthanded of course!) he has not slowed one single bit with writing or usuage. Actually, this break has had the opposite affect as he now feels invincible! LOL The kid who has been scared of height since birth is now climbing to the tops of trees, walking across the TOP of the monkey bars like a balance beam, and generally taking on the persona of spiderman scaling and jumping off everything! It's like the last 8 years he's been hestitant to do these things for fear of breaking something. Now he's broke something, it wasn't so bad, so no more worries! HE'S DRIVING US CRAZY!!!!!!! The good news is that everything is healing quickly. He was upgraded to buddy tape last week and only uses his splint for PE, Recess, and FOOTBALL! He was cleared to practice this week and depending on what the CQL officials say regarding his splint, he may get to play this weekend. Not psyching him up too much, just in case they say no, but he will come in full gear this weekend just in case. Of course, if he plays and they win, and there's a good chance they will, they'll be no living with him!

5. School - Roman and Hope headed back to school last month. Hope is doing fantastic, straight A's as usual, no worries at all. She did not get the teacher she wanted, but didn't take more than a few seconds to wrap the one she did get about that cute little finger! Hope has Mrs. Kroll this year. Roman has Mrs. Thomas, and for some reason I just really really liked her from the second I met her. I don't know what it is, but I was jsut 100% confident with her and her ability to teach my child from the moment we met. We've had a few issues already this year, but overall it's been a smooth transition. He has been talking more than usual, which I find funny since past teachers comment on how quiet he is - but also a great sign of his comfort with Mrs. Thomas too! Then 2 weeks ago he came home with an F on a science quiz. Note Science is his BEST subject! We grounded him for a week, or rather, until his test came back to which he got an A! We had a looooooooong talk about grades and expectations. While I do not believe in pressuring a kid too much, or expecting all A's from him, I do expect a lot more than an F! It didn't help that part was a graph related and he did all the graph work correctly and just wrote down the wrong answers not paying attention! He has a high C in science right now as his midterm grades just came in, but I know he'll pull that up to a B before report cards. It was a tough lesson, but I think we are at an understanding now and hopefully he'll stop screwing around so much. Apparently it's very much a 3rd grade BOY issue as all his friends parents are complaining of the same things! LOL

6. Daisies - Daisies is the only other activity we're involved in right now. Both Hope and Bethany are in the girl scout program and loving it. Last year Hope's troop was 7 girls big, this year it's more than doubled that! We went on a field trip to the firehouse on Monday and had a fantastic time! Our fireman was a young kid who was just awesome with the kids. Roman went begrudgingly and admitted afterwards it was the best firestation tour ever!

Okay, that's the short of what we're up to these days.