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First Day of Kindergarten

wakebird — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:42:49 +0000

Two days ago (Wednesday) was Grace’s first day of Kindergarten. She is only doing half-day which is the same amount of time that she went last year to preschool, but it’s still a bigger deal. You drop her off on the playground and the teachers come get them. You don’t check them in or anything. You have to bring snack everyday. They wear uniforms – which are adorable and fun now. I’m sure she will feel differently in five years. I was semi-emotional about it all. Mostly from the perspective that I can’t believe I have a kid in kindergarten. It’s just weird. I’m old and life is moving fast. Here’s some pictures.

Here is Jason, Tim and myself. The proud Kindergarten dads. You like my pretty bag?

The Prayer

wakebird — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:22:40 +0000

I adamantly believe that my daughter Grace has believed in Jesus for a while now. She has believed that Jesus is God and prayed beautiful child-like prayers. But last night she prayed “the prayer.” She prayed to God last night that she knew she sinned and asked for forgiveness and said that she knew that Jesus is God. It was awesome.

So no matter what you believe about people having to “pray a prayer” to get into heaven, it was awesome to hear my sweet 5-year-old daughter do that last night.

Grace and the Angels

wakebird — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:37:55 +0000

I took Grace to the Angels game last night on her birthday. It was a total add-on to the day. We basically left the house around the time she would normally go to bed. I knew we wouldn’t be able to stay long, but after three innings she was curling up on her seat trying to go to sleep. So we went home. She enjoyed the cotton candy and all the interesting things to see, but didn’t care a bit about the game. We had fun though. She liked running down the big ramps, looking over the edge of the stadium at all the cars, seeing the bugs flying around in the lights, and the blankets we got as a give-away.

My Baby is 5

wakebird — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:04:01 +0000

I almost can’t believe it but Grace is five years old today. I can’t believe that I have a five year old kid. She is so much fun. We talked on the phone for ten minutes the other day when I was at work. I love having conversations with her. Happy Birthday Sweetheart!

First Day of School

wakebird — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:46:00 +0000

I just had a full-on “OC Soccer Mom” experience. I drove Grace in the new Sequoia to her first day of her second year of pre-school. I walked in with Ella in the stroller and then left. Now I’m at home until I go to work at 11:30am when Bea is done teaching.
This first picture is from “Meet the Teacher Day” yesterday. She has Mrs. Gish.

The next pics are from today outside of her classroom in her pretty new dress.

Zoo Today

wakebird — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:23:00 +0000

I took the day off work today and took Grace to the zoo with my sister and here three adult kids and my brother, his wife, and their three kids. It was a pretty awesome day. We were there from 9am-3:30pm and saw a bunch of amazing things.
This picture below is Grace and her cousin Lindy. They are great friends.

This next one is of the first highlight. We saw a black Jaguar being fed a leg of lamb on a rope. The jaguar had to attack and “kill” the leg of lamb before being allowed to eat it. AMAZING!

Then we saw a white wolf being walked down the path and the zookeepers told us to watch out. I don’t have a picture of that though. The next highlight was of the gorillas. I liked this picture. Very dramatic.

This next one is by far my favorite picture of the day. The polar bears were so active and fun. I got a bunch of shots of this one playing with his ball – this was the best.

The last photo highlight was of this rhino eating leaves. Funny lips.

I love the zoo and I love family. Today was a great day. But right now I am seriously pooped.

Excellent Sleep & Other Stuff

wakebird — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:17:00 +0000

I felt guilty for trash-talking Ella too much on the blog. I have had excellent sleep the past couple of nights. Last night was the first time Ella made it 6 hours. She ate at 10:15pm and 4:15am. Not bad. So thank you Ella for the wonderful sleep. She is an awesome baby and we love her a ton.

Last night was Grace’s last soccer game as part of The Pink Ladybugs. We had a pizza party at LampPost Pizza afterwards. It was pretty fun. The parents of the team bought me two $25 gift cards to iTunes and Borders. Books and Music – I love them both!! We are not going to do soccer in the Fall. Grace likes going to soccer, dressing up for soccer, playing with the girls, snack, and the tunnel after the game, but I don’t think she actually likes playing soccer. So we will have her do it next summer after she is a bit older. She already does swimming and ballet so we have enough activities.

I went to Beach Boogie with our Jr Highers yesterday after speaking at Jr High on Wednesday night and it was fun. I feel like I’m finally starting to get to know some of these kids a little bit. I got sunburned on the sides of my back yesterday at the beach. It hurts pretty bad.

Alright, you probably stopped reading a couple paragraphs ago.

Grace and Eric chatting

wakebird — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:00:00 +0000

This is just a video of Grace and I chatting about silly stuff.

Soccer Game

wakebird — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:48:00 +0000

Grace is playing AYSO Soccer for 4-year-olds and I’m coaching her team. I seriously love it. The kids are so cute and it’s fun to watch them go crazy all over the field. Last night we had an intense game with a team of kind of brutish little girls. They were knocking our girls all over the place, but our Pink Ladybugs were tough. We don’t keep score or have goalies!! It’s just pure fun. Here are some pics from last nights game.
Below is Grace chasing down the ball with her proud coach in the background.

This is Grace going down from the tough girls on the Purple Mermaids.

Coaching your kid is fun. All the girls have a lot to say.

Their favorite part is the tunnel they run through at the end of the game.

First Soccer Practice Today

wakebird — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:18:00 +0000

THE PINK LADYBUGS

We had the first soccer practice for Grace’s team. I used a Cinderella doll to teach them proper form with their feet for an instep kick. That’s what the pictures are of that Erin K took. It was a fun and wild time. We’ll see how they do when we kick the ball off at the game. Hopefully, they will all go in the right direction. They were excited to get their pink uniforms and they named their team the pink ladybugs.

We are going to miss the first game because it’s on Tuesday when the baby is coming. I’m disappointed to miss the first game. Hopefully everything is OK.