Where Have I Been???

Not sure. Mostly on Facebook I guess. Nobody has really asked me about the blog in a while so I wasn't really feeling the need to post. Still not really feeling the need to post actually. Definitely not feeling the time to post here. Plus, blogs are so 2007 anyway. Facebook and Twitter seem to be much more popular.

The End of Flag..........Football

A better term that I have heard for flag football is flackle football. For flag, there is an awful lot of tackling going on. Which is not all bad. The boys need to learn to be a little bit aggresive with each other when they are playing football. Caleb had a great year. I'm not sure how many touchdowns he scored but it was a bunch. He threw a touchdown pass or two and caught a touchdown pass or two. He grabbed a lot of flags on defense. But most of all, he had fun. And that is the most important. Oh yeah, I had fun too.

Coy and Katie enjoyed going to the concession stand during the games with Grandmas and Grandpas the most.

Basketball season starts soon but not until soccer season is over. The last weekend for Graceland is this coming weekend while Katie has another Net Surfer's game on Halloween.

Coy had another appointment with the plastic surgeon last week. The speech therapist is encouraging us to have a surgery to help him maintain the air in his mouth when he speaks. The plastic surgeon is recommending that we stay with the speech therapy and not be in a rush to do the surgery. We don't know what to do so the easiest thing for us to do is wait. That is hard for us to do when we know what we want to do or should do but in this situation, I don't think we have a clue as to what to do so we will just wait......and pray. We have seen some pretty amazing things happen and I feel like if we stick with it, we will see some more.

The first pictures are from a corn maze that we did in Lanesville a couple of weeks ago. The kids had a great time and we walked alot. The other picture is from a Halloween party that we went to in Versailles last weekend.

Nothing New

Not really much new to report. A funny story, for some reason, Caleb was wearing around this Eeyore costume last weekend. He and Katie were wrestling around and all of a sudden, in a pretty good Eeyore like voice he said, "This is a good day for wrestling." It made me laugh.

Happy Birthday Coy

Wow, I have really let time get away from me. I wasn't intending for this blog to document our life but I rarely have time nor energy to write about anything other than what we have been doing. We have done SO much the last couple of weeks that I just have not had the chance to post it on here. The biggest event in the last couple of weeks was easily Coy's 5th birthday party. This milestone is huge for us because it means that he has almost been with us for as long as he was in Ukraine. By Thanksgiving, he will have been with us for as long as he was in Ukraine. That boy has such a joy in life that I wish that I could imitate. It is hard for him not to smile, when he gets enough sleep. Caleb and Katie have also done a great job of making Coy's birthday a success. I think that they realize, at least a little bit, how lucky we are to have Coy in our family.

Soccer and football are in full swing now. Katie and Caleb get to play on the same team again this year. Kinda bitter sweet because this might be the last time. Coy is actually improving too. He has kicked the ball several times this year and is not quite as timid as he was last year. He even kicked the ball in the right direction and almost scored a goal. He has fun playing too.

Coy started his school on the Wednesday after Labor Day. He seems to like his class and his teacher. Stacey likes the start and stop time for the school. We are hoping that he will get ready for Kindergarten. He still goes to speech a couple of times a week. His speech teacher is encouraging us to take him back to the plastic surgeon to get him tested for air leaks in his mouth because he continues to have trouble making some sounds. We have not done that yet but need to soon.

On Labor Day, our plans to surprise the kids with a trip to Holiday World fell through so we ended up going to French Lick to the indoor water park. It is a Great Wolf Lodge lite kind of place and it was fun to just spend the afternoon there. Three and a half hours was just about right.

I had the privilege of going on Katie's field trip to Squire Boone caverns not too long ago too. We had a lot of fun. Katie really impresses me. She is so smart, and so beautiful, and is such a hard worker and has such a servant's heart. Me, on the other hand, got in trouble with the teacher twice while on the field trip. I should have known better. Maybe if I get to go again I won't misbehave. But I love having fun with the kids.

This is too much for me

We celebrated Caleb's 9th birthday a couple of weekends ago. It just doesn't seem possible that he is that old already. But I guess he is. We had his birthday anyway.

Katie helped a friend of her's celebrate her birthday by riding in a limo to go and get ice cream. She then spent the night at the girl's house. Needless to say she was tired the next day.

The lizard is Mr. Snuffleupagus. I have seen bigger ones than this crawling on the side of our house but this is the first time I have troubled myself to go and get the camera to take the picture. He actually fell from the top of the basement door onto the concrete and I thought that the fall might have killed him but in a few minutes, he walked away.

Football and soccer are in full swing now. Between practices and games, we have something going on 6 nights of the week. Is that too much??? I'm not sure. Actually I am sure, I just don't want to admit it. If we are here, we end up watching TV so I am glad that we are out. We do spend a lot of time in the yard playing too but somehow we always end up migrating back to the idiot box. Me included.

Katie scored a goal this past weekend. She is still playing up (U-8 on a U-9) team but the girls are a lot more her skill level this year. I'm expecting great things from her and another girl that plays on her soccer club for the church team. Don't tell Caleb but both of those girls can play circles around him in soccer. Except for goalie. He is a pretty tough stop there.

Coy has spent some time with his grandmothers/grandfathers this past week and will again next week. His school doesn't start until after Labor Day so it makes for some tough times with Stacey's work. He has a blast though but he doesn't sleep well. I think he gets too excited to sleep.

Its Over

I have finally scanned the picture of Stacey and Caleb from the newspaper the day after the triathalon. Caleb had wrecked his bike and didn't finish as well as he had hoped. The timing was all messed up anyway so even if he had not wrecked, we would not have known how he did compared to the others. It doesn't matter though, they finished and did their best. That is all that counts.

Summer break is over. The kids got on the school bus today. They were kind of excited but not excited enough that I have any hopes that it will last all year. They both have friends that are in their classes so that is good.

Soccer is getting ready to be in full swing. I'm looking forward to it but I know that it will be a lot of time too. Luckily, just two teams this year and not three like last year. Katie is "playing up" with the 8 and 9 year old league at Graceland. She actually only misses their cut-off date by a little more than a month so it is not like she is in way over her head.

We Are Family

We had our annual trip to Holiday World on Monday. Lots of other people must have had the same idea. Although the crowds weren't as bad as we have had at other times. But we all had a good time. The bad part was that we had van trouble on the way home and had to call Stacey's parents to come and get us. They took the kids back to their house and then we drove Richard's truck back to Floyds Knobs and got home at 3 in the morning. We would have gotten home sooner if that State Policeman had not been so concerned with my speed. 72 in a 70 Mom, with a warning. : )

Caleb rode the Voyage 4 times and Katie rode it 3 times. The last time, they rode it with their hands up the whole way. I rode it too and that thing was fast. It has been a long time since I rode any roller coaster that size but I think it was just as fast as I remembered the Beast being. And my two oldest kids rode it. Coy rode a lot of things too and he has a blast. He just has a love of life that is unmatched. Even late in the day, after a long day of playing and walking and riding and standing in line, he doesn't whine or complain. He just loves whatever we do.