On the Go.....

Welcome October! So, I'm gonna try to make this month better than last, but I don't want to speak too soon, so stay tuned!

Requay started "gyn-natics" or as most people say, gymnastics, this week! We had our first practice and I had gotten Requay this little pink leotard (she picked the color-she had a choice of pink or black) and apparently leotards aren't really that "fitting" on the little ones, so all throughout practice, Requay kept pulling the leotard out of her bum and say, "I pull letard out my bum and gina!" How the things kids say! She had a BLAST though! And she was much stronger than I thought! It was a Mom and Tot class so as I would have liked to have gotten Baby Girl into gymnastics, I apparently signed myself up as well! We did some light stretches and then did little circuit/obstacle course things hanging from bars, doing little flips, hanging from rings, walking on our tippee toes, holding ourselves up and walking on beams! Requay did really well and the parents are there to help them reach the bars/rings or hold them while they walk on the beams. We also got to jump on the indoor trampolines that they had,which looked like lots of fun! Requay did great, jumping up and down with her legs straddles, or her knees up....the instructor made smiley faces on the trampolines with chalk to help the kids jump in the middle of the face! She got a little gymnastics t-shirt and a stamp when the class was over--she said we could go back again next week!

And as for Jonah, well, we started basketball yesterday! Yes, my baby is attempting to play basketball. I know what you might be saying, Jason has never played a day in his life other than just dribbling the ball and I spent my junior high basketball time on the bench gossiping with Joanne! BUT, he wanted to try it out and who was I to say, "white boys can't jump?" So we're giving basketball a try. He did have difficulty dribbling and making the ball go into the net and a few times kicked the ball to where he wanted it to go, but I mean, really, nobody ever said that kicking wasn't allowed in basketball! He had a good time at practice and said he wanted to go back, so that's a plus!

So, now that we've hit football season, we have gymnastics practice on Tuesdays, basketball practice on Thursdays, and basketball games on Saturdays! Whew......I LOVE IT! A real, as Sarah Palin would say, "hockey mom." It's so much fun, running around from one practice to another with one kid and the other trying to work a full-time job, keep our home somewhat in one piece, read books every night, get the kids to bed early and try to get into bed at a decent hour.....awwww, this is life! Right?? Well, it's my life anyway!

I've been cleaning out closets at our house, not really for anything in particular, but because I'm feeling claustrophobic in our duplex! So I somehow convinced Jason to get a storage unit to put stuff that we're not using in there to give us a little more room! So not only have I made a bigger mess of our house, but I'm attempting to label things and such so as to not have to go through a mess when I'm looking for one particular thing! Wish me luck, cause I've made quite the mess!

As for weekend plans, we have a teacher/parent conference tomorrow morning--no Jonah's not in trouble, Mr. Wayne just wants to speak to all the parents to let us know how the kids are doing in school and what we may need to work on more at home, etc. So we have that at 9 am and then basketball practice at 10am and we're planning a camping trip next weekend because Jonah's out of school on Friday and Monday, so we need to get stuff ready for that as well as continue moving stuff into storage! And then Sunday, Jonah has Sunday school, which I participate as an aide in, so we'll be doing that Sunday morning and manage to make it to church sometime in there, preferable on Saturday, but we'll see how things work out! And then we also have the normal, washing clothes, dishes, grocery shopping to do that normally happens on the weekends! So it looks like it will be a jammed packed weekend for us!

I'm hoping that my parents are still planning their trip to visit baby Cameron in Minnesota or some "M" state up north so I'm hoping we're on their northern way so that they can stop in and say hello even if it's just for a little bit (hint, hint, I hope Lito/Lita read this!)

Well, I better go for now, keep me in your prayers that I'll find time to continue blogging on what's going on in our world this month! Until next time, happy reading!! :o)