Summer is here

We'll school is out for the summer and this week is the first week that of the summer schedule for the kids. One week with Cathe and one week with me. Kortne is going to be a 3rd grader and Austin is going to be a 2nd grader, maybe. His teacher, Cathe and I all believe he should skip 1st grade because he is doing 3rd grade work. I think the only real question is whether he is socially ready for the move. The principal wasn't notified early enough to study the situation so it might be tough to get the move approved. Hopefully this is something that Cathe and I can work on together and get done. I'll let you know.

The kids are spending some time with Grandma doing all kinds of fun stuff. Yesterday they worked really hard getting terd 1 ready for camping. They shopped, packed and washed it up. Now its a shiny terd. It is so funny to watch the kids in the motorhome. It must feel like a fort to them because they just LOVE playing in there. Today they took off for a local camp spot for an overnighter and Austin crawled in a couple hours early with a blankey and started playing DS. He had no interest in moving from that couch until they were ready to leave. They are there now and I'll meet up with them after work for dinner and fun. I'll grab my camera and see if I can get a picture of the kids and Gma.

This week Janet and Brit (Her daughter) are in New York for the week. They are exploring all the fun places in the city and should have some stories for sure when they get back. I miss her a lot and cant wait for her to get back.

I'm really excited for the Iphone to come out. Our company is switching to AT&T so that is now an option for me. The phone is really cool and I have to admit I'm a bit obsessed with it. Check it out on their Iphone site. I just may have to get one of those things. You know I like my gadgets.

Oh, I almost forgot fathers day. Kortne made me a wonderful card that I could tell she spent some time on. She cut a bunch of yellow and green (Duck colors) squares and pasted them in the shape of a "D" on the front. Then wrote some things on the inside with a couple illustrations about Pepsi. It seems the kids think my favorite thing is Diet Pepsi or something. Austin didn't make anything so he remembered the week before he made a little box out of paper and asked where it was. He ran and grabbed it and wrote Happy fathers day in it. It was kind of funny. We really enjoyed our day hanging with the family, playing games, hot tubbing etc.. Thats what its about is being together. It is really cool when we get all three generations together from Grandparents to Grandkids.

This summer the kids are going to be with me for 6 weeks and only three of them in daycare. I'm happy that I can take time off and spend it with them, and that I have loving family that likes to spend time with them and play. We have a fun vacation planned the first week of July and I'll be sure to blog and post pictures about that.

The jerome fish.... and my super reader.

Kortne and Austin are doing swimming lessons now and they are just about done with the 6+ week lessons. They are doing really well, especially Kortne. Austin is able to go under water and hold his breath for a few seconds and kind of swim. When he is out of breath he lifts up and makes sure to squeegee off all the water from his face. Kortne pushes off throws her face in the water and swims for 4-5 strokes. Once she gets the breathing part figured out she'll be able to swim, I think. They both absolutely love swimming. We go to free swim and play and goof together. They usually end up ganging up on dad and taking me down. They can both go down the water slide all by themselves now. Kortne has no trouble and Austin only goes under once in a while. Overall he is doing really well with it too.

Today Austin had the three little pigs play at school. Last night he told me he was a narrator along with two other girls. It was so funny because Austin said one of the little girls wants to marry him. We saw her at Target one day and she is definitely sweet on Austin. So the narrators read about what was going on during the play as other kids (less skilled at reading) would act out the play. They had some lines but usually Ms Anderson had to go whisper in their ear what the page said. Austin read very well and even read with intonation which was pretty cool. He didn't know I was going to be there so I snuck in and sat down and watched their rehearsal for a while. He looked up and saw me and got the biggest smile and did the little quick wave, like get over here dad. So I scooted up and sat by him. He was so excited and he did a really good job.