Maddie's Public Speaking Debut

The kindergarten classes get to plan one mass at the end of the school year.  It is super exciting for them!!  Maddie got to read the 1st reading.....a VERY long reading!!!!  She practiced her little heart out the full week before mass and nailed it!  I was very proud of her.....she did a great job and took it very serious.
I'm always amazed at how well ALL of these kids do at reading at mass.  Their school has 500 kids in it, then add the parents and all the faculty, and they are easily speaking infront of 650 people!!  Good skill to have in life!!

Notice her little step stool behind the podium.  Love when the little kids have to climb up there using the step stool!!  So cute!!  The second picture was at the end of mass, Father Greg, recognized all the kindergarteners for their first mass they prepared and asked them to all stand up on the pews.  I'm sure they thought they were BIG STUFF!!!  So much cuteness in one mass!

First REAL Sports Injury

Peyton had been compiling about her back hurting a little bit in the spring.  Soccer and already started  back up and she was still in basketball season too.  We kept telling her, she just needed to stretch more.  Her body is now built like a woman, she is full of muscle, but never stretches.

At her last CYC basketball game, I did notice that everytime she was lined up at the free throw line, she would grab her lower back.  After that game she told me her back was killing her.  We got in the car and headed down the road to her soccer game.  As she was switching uniforms in the back seat, I heard her say, "owe, owe."  I turned around and I said, "what is owe?"  She said, "My back!  I told you it's hurting me."  So her little movement of lifting her legs out of one uni and into another was hurting her.  That's when I knew it must be real.  She went to her soccer game, played a solid first half.  But right after half time I could tell she was running at about 80% and I saw her wiping tears.  We, all the parents on the sidelines, yelled at her enough and convinced her to tell coach so that he would take her out.

He took her out the rest of the game, she game back the next day (it was a tournament) and tried to play, but that didn't last long either.  We shut her down that week, made her stretch a ton, took her to Gallaghers trainer, and too her to a stretching place hoping to stretch it out of her.  After a week of lots of stretching and no activity, she was still not better.  Mike had us come up to work and he scanned her.   Turns out, she had a stress fracture in her lower back.

We went and saw ortho the next week and he shut her down from EVERYTHING for three months!!!  He told her she couldn't even swim for fun, as we were approaching summer.  So, from mid April until mid July, she could do nothing except PT three times a week!!

LOOOOOOONNNGGGG summer ahead......

Here she is....lots of stretching and foam rolling....unfortunately, wasn't the problem this time!

Donuts with MOM

Well this is a good one!!!
Mike leaves at 5am every morning for work.  On this particular April day, it was donuts with MOM at school.  Like usual, Mike left at 5am for work, and I get the kids up and get everyone to school for donuts with MOM.  About 7:45 we see Mike stroll through the school cafeteria doors, for what he thought was donuts with DAD......HA!!  We went ahead and let him know that donuts with DAD was actually last month and then sent him back to work.  Solid effort tho, DAD!

A "Ruff" Winter....

Well I drug the dogs with me to Peyton's soccer practice.  They were VERY excited to go.  They drug me there first mile, and I drug them the last two!!!  Winter was tough on them too.....we all have a little work to do from our winter.

Blonde Haired Cutie Patooties!

A Busy Friday Night...

A Friday night in April, all three kids had to be at a different place (actually happens quite often).....Grandma Farm was in town, so we put her to work!!  She took Maddie to her soccer game down at Soccer Park.  Maddie ended up playing on the field right beside Andrew, so Leigh-Anne snapped a picture and sent it to me!!  Soccer Park is NOT an easy place to navigate on a Friday night, so Leigh-Anne wanted me to know that they got there safe and sound!  :)

My kind of sick day....

Maddie woke up on an early day in April with a small fever and upset tummy.  She got dressed for school and debated and debated if she should go or not, she REALLY wanted to, but then she felt bad.  Finally at the last minute, she took off her uniform and decided to stay home.  We had a great day.  We went up to Kirkwood Baptist and she helped me get things ready for the week at school, we grabbed some lunch and had lunch together on the deck, and we planted flowers and Maddie caught herself some frogs in the fish pond.  I think it turned out to be a great "sick day".