Where has the time gone! I haven't updated my blog in over a year...really? That is terrible but life has been crazy busy and I just don't have time to sit down at the computer anymore and post updates. So, the last year....well, where to start. Gavin turned 6, Audrey is 5 and Sutton is 2. Gavin started kindergarten and I can't believe it's already almost over and Audrey will be beginning her adventure with kindergarten in the Fall.
Sutton has definitely hit the terrible 2's but is the sweetest, funniest kid ever as well. I've always heard the third child is the loudest and funniest of them all. He's got quite the competition to compete with. He is talking like crazy saying new things everyday. I favorite color is yellow so he points out everything yellow that he sees. He has just recently started pointing out slugbugs and snails when we are driving, it's hilarious. He also has to point out every truck, bus, firetruck, 18 wheeler that we see so it's a pretty busy car ride wherever we go which is a lot these days.
Audrey has all the sudden turned into such a big girl, it's crazy how fast she has grown up. She has the memory of an elephant and brings up the most random things that she remembers from so long ago that I barely remember. She loves to do art, coloring, painting, beading, cutting, glueing, etc. She's my little artist. She also of course loves her babies, barbies, makeup and all her girly things. Poor Gavin gets suckered into playing barbies or her dollhouse but he really doesn't seem to mind most of the time.
Gavin, Gavin, Gavin...such a big boy. I can't believe he is going to be in 1st grade in the Fall. He loves, loves, loves school especially getting to see his Grandma everyday (Steven's mom teaches at his school). We are moving the kids to a new school in the Fall so he is pretty sad about not getting to see her, as is she but I think it's for the best. He loves to read and it's so fun to hear him reading everything he sees and watching it figure it out on his own and seeing him learn. He had a big lesson today about money. I told him he could buy something today with his own money and he walked up and down the isles and would stop and look at something and say, "Oh Wow, this is $10, way too much money" and he would keep walking. He had a big realization about how much things cost and how it feels to spend your own money that you have saved up. So he ended up finding something for $17 and I told him he could pay me $10 when we got home and I would pay the rest. After we left the store he said, "Thank you so much mom for letting me pay you $10 and for you paying the rest. I will give you a $10 bill when we get home." He was so proud!
Ok, that is a little snipit of an update. I will post some pics soon. I haven't decided if I'm going to just pick up from now or if I dare go back to last year and update it all. Sounds like a lot of work to me :)
