Go Hornets!

Fall means soccer Sundays and we have been having fun watching team Hornets run around the soccer field and show off their skills.

Henry does sports Michael Jordan style and has his tongue hanging out as he tries to get the ball going in the right direction!


Bryn on the other hand does her "hair tuck" when she gets nervous trying to take the ball away from the boys. she was tucking it as she lined up for some corner kicks and throw in too. So cute!

Hanging out with Simon as the rest of the team played on.

Oh, she does a shirt tuck too. Gotta look good in the goal.

Weekend warriors

My boys getting ready for the Badger football!

While Jay and I were busy meeting Jason Mraz at Farm Aid, my mom was hanging out with the kids at home and touring Monroe Street Festival. They put in a couple miles of walking Monroe Street, jumping fun in the bouncy castle across the street, and watching some Belly dancers perform (apparently Bryn was in awe of their "beautiful tummies").



We headed downtown for the Literacy run since the kids have been begging to enter a run again. On the way there Henry kept asking me to not run with them on the street since he wanted to run by himself. He even said that I didn't need to run alongside on the sidewalk either, but rather meet them at the end. He changed his mind once people started gathering on State St. and held my hand for the majority of the run.. We even got cheered on my Badger cheerleaders and the band! And they stayed to cheer on me and Team Tortuga in the 5K, followed with ice cream, brats and pictures with Bucky.





Group shot of all the kids with Bucky! I do remember the days when both of them were scared to come within a 10 foot distance him so it's fun to see them cuddle up to him finally.

Kindergarten update.

I feel like we need to post a kindergarten update now that we are a month in already. We love Mrs. Nesbit (think calm, loving and very organized), they have a very sweet group of 12 other kids in their class and we are meeting some great new friends (me included).

Henry thinks his teacher is the bomb "because she can draw really good milkweed plants." Bryn adores computer class and updates us weekly on all the fun things they work on in the computer lab. I am convince she will take over this blog by the time kindergarten is done. They both seem to talk more about what and who they played with at recess than what they do in class.

A couple weeks ago we had an open house at school complete with a book fair. Even though our bookshelves are exploding, I can never pass up good deals on books. They each picked a handful and I was laughing seeing how different each of their piles looked!

Bryn quickly grabbed the Cherokee book since she is mesmerized about life on the prairie and was so excited to find an ice skating book as well.


Henry's top pick was the Wizard of Oz and he was super excited to find the Obama book and hoping to see pictures of the Obama's on vacation!


It is so fun to see them run up the sidewalk to meet up with their friends and then watch them all race UP the hill to school as the parents trail behind. We are enjoying a pretty great start to this new chapter of public education! Bryn said to me the other night. "Mommy I was kinda scared the first day of kindergarten but now I wish I could go every day."