Basketball & More

We've been very busy trying to get everyone healthy. Pink eye has run rampant through the kiddies with Ryan infected again.

Alex started basketball this weekend. He's on a team with some of his neighborhood friends which makes it more fun for him!

While at Alex's first practice, Andy was playing with Mark and having a lot of fun. After practice started, he got to climb on the stage and play with the other siblings. They had much fun chasing each other behind curtains and playing monster. At the actual game, Andy was very crabby and ready to go. Though he did cheer for Alex when ever he was on the court.

After the game, we went to look at some new model homes. They were nice on the inside and ugly/boring on the outside. But as it was the grand opening, we got to enjoy a free lunch and Alex had the honor of spinning the prize wheel for us. He won the $25 Target gift card to which he said, "I wanted the parachute man, not a gift card." The lady suggested, he get a parachute man and he give the gift card to his parents, he was delighted! Andy then 'spun' the wheel and chose a toy harmonica.

So on Friday, I was trying to put clothes away, clean up the kitchen, etc. Andy was very quiet. He'd taken the box of frozen waffles out of the freezer, the syrup out of the fridge and headed into the bathroom. The door was closed when I came downstairs and wondered what he was up to. He had emptied all the drawers, poured all the cleaning products into the bath tub (where he'd put all the cleaning brushes), and managed to get syrup on the mirror, vanity, closet, floor, bathroom mats, and toliet. Why was he in there? He said, "I was trying to go potty," very experated with me for getting after him.

Sean and Ryan continue to enjoy their pursuits of getting into everything taking things apart and have added to their act, driving Alex crazy! He at 7, sets up elaborate games with his Rescue Heroes (much as I did with my Barbies as a child) and then the twix blow through and take everything apart! Its enough to drive Alex bonkers!

Alex reads ahead of the 1st grade level. Thanks to the movie coming out, his teacher, had him start reading Charlotte's Web. As that's a book in the Devlin library, he's been reading it at home also. He told me, "I like to practice reading it at home first so that if Cassie (his reading buddy) doesn't know a word, I already figured it out for her (not for himself, but for Cassie. :-)."

And for those interested in sending Alex congratulations. He's ridiculously proud of his first perfect spelling test! He doesn't have to spell words like cat, dog, apple, banana. No Alex spells words like "compounds, statements, divided, whether, difficulty, businesses, etc." and is expected to understand their meaning and usage. Alex has words that the rest of us didn't get until 4th or 5th grade, so the fact that he can do these and get 1 or 2 wrong, I think proves he's super duper smart!

Enough about me and my kiddies. I've got to get the twix up and dressed and find out why Andy's being so quiet.