Rachel and I went for a 4 mile bike ride today. Emily chilled in the trailer. More than once, we passed people who said that Emily was the smart one.
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Sunday, April 29, 2012
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Family Fun at Fiesta
We spent the evening at Market Square tonight...
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Sunday, April 15, 2012
A Sunday Ride...
Rachel has been scared to get back on her bike after she fell a few times. But I promised that I'd run beside her today and within 10 minutes she was riding up and down our street by herself, back and forth, without stopping.
After about 30 minutes, I asked her if she was up for a little bit longer ride, so together, we rode to the end of the street and back.
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Sunday, April 01, 2012
March 2012
Dear girls,
Spring has sprung, and we've had a lot of changes in the past month. To begin with, your gandparents headed back to Illinois. We were all very sad to see then go, but I think you've both managed to adjust pretty well.
The week after your grandparents left, you both discovered the other neighborhood kids. You've played with them before at our "National Night Out" parties, but now you've started playing with them every day. It's nice to see you all playing together and wearing each other out. I'm sure their parents feel the same way. Of course, since it's light later in the evening now, it's harder to get you to come inside when it's time, too.
Emily, we finally found out that you have been accepted into preschool for next year, so we're starting the countdown to you going to school. Along with that have started the "is she ready" questions, because we just worry about you a lot. It's still 5 months off, though, and if the last 5 months have been any indication, we think you'll be more than ready to go.
Your speech gets better and better every day, and it seems like at least once a week now you ditch a baby word and start saying the actual word. "Bankie" has given way to "blanket" recently, and every time you do that, it takes us a few days to adjust and realize that your vocabulary has changed. You've also started repeating almost everything everyone says to you, much to the annoyance of your big sister.
Rahcel, you got a citizenship award this month! We are so proud of you. As a reward, your school is giving you a free ticket to a Spurs game. That's going to screw up my "I'm not watching the NBA this year," but I think it's for a great reason. Your teacher has nothing but great things to say about you, and we know you're going to blaze right out of kindergarten and into first grade. We already knew this, but in your reading tests, you came out way above grade level. You can read words no kindergartener has the right to know. The other day, you were reading a box on the counter and it had the word "protein" on it. You read the whole thing without skipping a beat, like you've known the word "protein" your whole life.
We've had a lot of fun checking the garden each day since spring break, and some of the things we planted are coming up fast. However, a lot of the things we planted are getting eaten by bugs, so we're going to have to do something about that. It's great to see you both so interested in the things that are growing, though, and I can't wait until we're able to harvest some good things to eat.
Finally, we had a very exciting thing happen on the very last day of the month. Rachel, you learned to ride your bike! You've been riding around with your training wheels up off the ground a few inches for the past couple of months, and doing a great job of balancing when you ride. It didn't take you long at all to get up and riding, and within an hour or so, you were starting on your own, and riding in the street. I can't wait to start going for bike rides with you. I just hope the weather stays cool a little bit longer so we can enjoy it.
Next month is Fiesta month, and we can't wait to take you both to some events to see how much fun you have. We love you very much!
Love
Daddy
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Saturday, March 31, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Everything's coming up green!
After our rain last night, we checked the garden today to discover that we had a lot more plants coming up!
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Motivation
It's amazing what you can do when there are spring thunderstorms with a threat of hail.
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
January/February 2012
Well, your dear old dad has gone and done it again. I've done a pretty good job of ignoring your letter for the past 2 1/2 months. Here we are, halfway through March and I haven't written a thing about what the two of you have been up to since the beginning of the year. BAD Daddy! I'll go sit in the corner now.
So...10 weeks ago, we started a new year. And a couple of weeks into that new year, something really special happened: your father turned 40 and Your Aunt Sarah, Uncle Britton, and cousin Sabrina came to visit us!
It was so nice to have them all here, and the two of you loved playing with Sabrina. The weather cooperated for the most part, and we were able to take all of you to the zoo. We really need to get you all together more often. Emily, you haven't stopped talking about "baby?" since they left, and we finally having you saying "Bweena."
Something else really fun that happened was that you both got to go on a real train. Two of them, in fact! The Amtrak anniversary train was in town, so we went down the the train station to check it out. What we didn't know that they they have a steam engine they're in the process of restoring down there, too, so you both got to take a look at that, too! Even though we didn't actually go for a ride on the trains, both of you had a great time, and especially Emily, since you've been so into Thomas the Tank Engine lately.
In February, Rachel, you and I went to a hockey game with one of your friends. It was the first time either of us had been to a hockey game in San Antonio. You were more concerned about whether you were going to get ice cream than you were with the game. Probably more exciting than the game was the drive home. We drove through a really big thunderstorm with huge hail falling on the car. Thankfully, I wasn't driving.
We also went to the Rodeo again this year. For the first time, Rachel, you made it through the whole thing. Emily, you did not, but you were a trooper. We went on some of the rides before we went in to see the rodeo, and we managed to pick a great night to go because it was only 1 ticket per ride the whole time.
Something else exciting that happened in February was that Rachel got accepted into the Gifted and Talented program at school! We always knew that you were very smart, and now we have the test results to prove it. I'm sure that this will only add to the sass we've been seeing lately with you being Miss Know-it-all. But I hope not.
Speaking of sass, Emily, you've become quite the little pistol. It looks like you left the most terrible part of the terrible twos for the last half of your second year. It seems like every decision has been a fight with you over the past month, with us having to find new ways every week to get you to do what we want you to do. I hope that this eases up a little bit as we slide into summer because there have been a few times over the past weeks that I've been ready to put you on Ebay.
Despite all of that, we are still amazed at how quickly you both are growing up. We can't wait to see what the next months will bring, as we get closer and closer to both of you being in school come August.
We love you both very much.
Love,
Daddy
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Building a Garden
Our back yard has a pretty good slope to it, which means that anytime it rains, any dirt that isn't packed down gets washed away. That's why we haven't attempted to make a little garden at this house yet. But I had a gift card from Home Depot (thanks, Mom and Dad!) and a hair up my butt to give the girls something to do this summer, so I decided we'd build a garden.
It was a lot bigger project than I planned, but I want it to stay put for a while so I took the time to actually plan (imagine that!)
It's been a couple of weeks in the making, but I think we're finally ready to plant.
With some assistance from my little helpers, we moved a yard of dirt into the 8' x 4' x 2' raised bed (it's only 12" up on the shallow side).
Now we just need to plant some seeds and watch them grow!
To celebrate, we went and got ice cream!
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