Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Talk Like a Pirate Day

Here is Evan at his Kindergarten Open House. He was so proud and excited to show us his rom and all he is learning.

Kindergarten

The time is here, Evan is starting Kindergarten. Today he went to orientation and next mid-week he officially starts. Big leagues! He seems to like it though today was primarily for evaluation. He starts very early in the morning so we are all quite bleary eyed getting used to our new schedule. Drew starts preschool at the end of next week.

Happy 4th of July

Happy Independence Day to all! We went to our first fireworks show as a family at the State Fairgrounds. We all sat down near the dirt track so the kids could run around without annoying anyone as we arrived pretty early for the fireworks not knowing what to expect.

The kids had a lot of fun before the fireworks. We watched some traditional Japanese drumming and during our wait down on the dirt track, Evan chatted up a lot of people, including two police officers.

Drew was crying we didn't go to some fireworks on Saturday because he was so tired. Sunday all he talked about were fireworks. What happens when they finally start popping on Sunday night? Drew is scared out of his wits, buries his head in James' shoulder, demands to go home, and doesn't look up the entire show. Later Drew said he wasn't scared he just felt like crying.

Evan and I enjoyed them though. We are all tired here today as we didn't get the home and the kids put in bed until 11:30!