Saturday it was commencement day. Let me just say a three hour graduation goes so much faster when they sell concessions and cushy seats!!
2. Sunday Kara moved all her stuff into our house, where she will be staying at least through Christmas. Tate asked her now that she graduated what grade she is in now. She said that she is done with school and wouldn't be in a grade. Tate said, "Does that mean you're an adult now?" Ha! Before she becomes and adult she left on a plane on Monday for a month long trip to Europe {mostly Italy} where she is taking a class with a bunch of other UMD Community Health majors. Follow her adventures....
3. Tuesday was Tate's Track and Field Day at school. Each kid got to pick 3 events to participate in. Tate chose the 500 yard dash, the hippity hop, and the bean bag toss.
He really just cracks us up. He wouldn't take his jacket or his visor off for any event and was just totally happy with whatever happened...he doesn't have an ultra competitive gene, that's for sure! He's happy when he wins but is kind of oblivious when he doesn't. E swears he thinks he was the same way at this age.
He really gave it his all when their whole class got to participate in the tug-of-war against the other 6 first grade classes.
Victory bracelets!
4. Avery was so excited to finally count to 100 at preschool on Wednesday! It's the sought after milestone of the four year old class. Yippee, Avery!
5. When Tate was three he started to try to crawl in our bed in the middle of the night. We went a year with resisting and continued to put him back in his room many times nightly and were close to having him sleep in his room all night alone again. Then I entered my PDP Etsy coma and when I would finally go up to bed at an undisclosed hour Eric would have one or two kids sleeping with him. For the past three years there were 5 of us in our queen bed by 6 am...something I swore would NEVER happen.
A couple weeks ago, we were finally ready to bite the bullet. We put up a gate on our bedroom door and told the kids they were no longer allowed in our bed until 6 am. We did give them the incentive of getting the pillow pets they had been wanting since last fall if they could go 14 days without making too much of a fuss about having to sleep in their own beds. Amazingly, they have adjusted pretty nicely! Beckett has cried only a couple of times. Avery occasionally comes to the gate and says "Mom and Dad, are you still in there?" As long as we respond she goes right back to bed. Tate was already sleeping all night in his own, so he was no problem.
We made our way to the mall to make good on our promise...
A couple weeks ago, we were finally ready to bite the bullet. We put up a gate on our bedroom door and told the kids they were no longer allowed in our bed until 6 am. We did give them the incentive of getting the pillow pets they had been wanting since last fall if they could go 14 days without making too much of a fuss about having to sleep in their own beds. Amazingly, they have adjusted pretty nicely! Beckett has cried only a couple of times. Avery occasionally comes to the gate and says "Mom and Dad, are you still in there?" As long as we respond she goes right back to bed. Tate was already sleeping all night in his own, so he was no problem.
We made our way to the mall to make good on our promise...
Umm...gulp. Those things are not cheap. But all in all a price I will pay for a better night's sleep, I guess!
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