The Gurrs

Monday, October 22, 2012

Joey's Birthday and last days in San Antonio

We were so sad that only a few weeks before we moved, a great family moved in 2 houses down from us with sweet boys right about the same ages as Joey and Kimball. They became instant best friends and had tons of fun riding all over the quiet street and cul-de-sac those last few weeks.

Since I know Joey loves anything to do with frosting, sprinkles and candy (and I really did not have time to be making a fancy cake in the middle of rushing to pack and clean the house), I gave all the 1/2 eaten bags of candy and little bottle of sprinkles and tubes of decorating gels that I wasn't going to pack and move, and let him go to town. I told him he could put anything he wanted on his birthday cake from that pile. He loved it. Kimball got a little jealous so I let him decorate his own sheet of tinfoil (aren't I a great mom ;))

What a healthy boy--he requested poppy seed chicken, mashed potatoes and asparagus for dinner!

We were glad to have Sally and Caleb and Ella join us

Joey did an excellent job on the cake

After dinner we we used up all those poppers that bang when you throw them on the ground (another thing that I was NOT going to pack and move)

KImball even got a gift from his cousins

Joeuy was so happy to get Lion King, his 7-year old favorite movie.

When I told Joey he could put anything he wanted on his cake he immediately asked, "Even cotton candy?" I told him yes because I knew we had some left over from Eater. But when I went to open that container it was hard as a rock. Luckily I took him to sea world on his birthday so we got that cotton candy to top off his sugar-ific cake.

Sunday, October 21, 2012

End of May

While I packed for the move to Arizona, Kimball made a "slide" for his big blue ball. He carefully laid all the boxes down the stairs He then rolled the ball and was disappointed that the boxes moved. After careful thought he headed for the garage. When I asked him what he was dong he said, "I am getting a hammer and glue to make these boxes stick to the stairs " Luckily I was watching him because I don't thin we could have sold the house with moving boxes nailed and glued to the stairs.

On May 31st Kimball turned the big number 5! He requested sprinkles, blue frosting and a spider-man on his cake.

Poor Joey has his last day of school on Kimball's birthday. It would be the last time he would see some of his dear friends before we moved. Peter was home that day and usually Joey would just walk home after getting off the bus. But that day right before the bus arrived, I had a prompting to go get Joey at the bus stop. When he got off the bus and took a few steps toward me I saw the grief in his face. I asked him what was wrong and he burst into tears. I carried him home and he was inconsolable for a while. Poor, sensitive soul. So we pulled out a secret weapon. I had gotten a race track that they had been dying to have, so I let them open it up and play with it. After a few minutes Joey was healed.

Then we celebrated Kimball's birthday

Because of Kimball's sensitive tummy, I never let him get the chocolate milk when we go to chick-fil-a of mcdonalds, so the poor deprived kid got some yummy lactose-free chocolate milk I found at the grocery store. He was so happy

The beginning of June the boys had their one and only swim meet before we moved. Peter and I were so glad it was the only one (they are so incredibly long). The boys did AWESOME!

Cute little body-marked boys

Diving and swim practice before the meet

Joey top, Kimball below

I love those little kid dives!

Kimball getting some last minute advice from coach Tammy Swigert before backstroke

Joey's turn for backstroke. He beat his time by 2 whole minutes from last year's time. He did it in 2.5 minutes last year and only 30 seconds this year. He has improved a lot!