Soccer Season

It's soccer season again. Both Kyle and Ryan are playing for coach Kimmy (on different age group teams this time though). Kyle is in the age group that plays on a regulation sized field... sure looks huge with those kids on it. Ryan loves to play goalie, striker, midfielder... actually I think he just loves to play soccer regardless of the position. We really like having them play for coach Kimmy, she has the kids play all kinds of different positions so that they get a feel for the whole game, she also expects even 5 and 6 year olds to play their position and amazingly after just a few games they start doing it.

MP3 players

Kyle and Ryan got (cheep) MP3 players for Christmas... now they can dance to the music only they're hearing...

Boxing Day

So all day on boxing day Kyle was acting a little weird about eating, we figured it was just too many sweets and candies. But at dinner he started to cry with every bite he took... so I looked in his mouth and it looked like someone has shoved a pea up under his gums by one of his top teeth. We called our dentist, who as luck would have it had just gotten back into town that afternoon, he told me to meet him at his office in 20 minutes. I took Kyle over there and he looked at it told me that he thought it was an abscessed tooth but that he'd take an x-ray to be sure. We did the x-ray and sure enough it was an abscess up behind a tooth that had a filling that evidently didn't fill in the entire decayed spot in it and as the decay had grown behind the filling it'd caused the nerve to die and the infection (abscess) to start and to grow. So he numbed up Kyle's face (as you can see in the following post procedure photos) and popped the tooth out. The transformation in Kyles demeanor was nearly instantaneous, he went from lethargic and whiny to happy and bouncy, made Carmen and I feel like inattentive parents for not noticing earlier...


I'm not smirking... honest...


Full face smile needed some assistance.


Happy as a lark in our new Christmas jammies, even if we can only get the right side of our mouth to smile...

Christmas

Christmas morning. We did make the kids wait until it was 6am before they could go downstairs to see what Santa had left for them. I know we are SOOOO MEAN to them. It's OK they'll work it out in therapy when they're older.

Putting up the Christmas Tree

Last year at an after Christmas clearance sale we picked up a prelit tree, it was regularly like 200 and we got it for like 50. Anyway the weekend after Thanksgiving here (at least on our street) is the official starting gun for getting out the Christmas stuff. Not to be out done our boys made sure we got ours up and decorated.









Carmen needs to take a photo of the finished decorating and post it. It's pretty clear there was a favored spot for ordainment placement... unless she's already redistributed them...

Tying my own tie

It was stake conference, and for a variety of reasons James hadn't tied Kyle’s tie before we left the house, Kyle asked him how to do it as we drove there in the car. So this is the result of his first effort at tying his tie while following instructions from dad who wasn't even looking at him!


Not to shabby...

Fine Dinning

Tarwater has a day called "fine dinning". It's a lunch event where they sit at tables and the 6th graders bring around serving platters and they eat a "family" style meal. It's an opportunity for them to work on etiquette and I think it's great! They asked the kid to dress up of the event. Kyle wanted to wear his suit to school today. But I didn't think that was the best idea because he had PE that day and the kids would still be going out to resees. James and I were able to talk with him about wearing nice pants and a button down shirt. So both Kyle and Ryan wore tan pants and button down shirts. The cafeteria was changed to look like a restaurant. There were even table cloths, center pieces, light music playing in the background, and nice looking paper plates on the tables. The food was served to the table and was passed around family style. I was able to be there with Kyle’s class.




Now a few years back when the boys were shopping with Nana for their dad for Christmas, and she suggested they get him something to wear to work, they told her that he had to wear tan pants and a blue shirt, that it was his uniform for work. Anyway, when I looked at Kyle and Ryan I knew I had to get a picture of them with their dad... for the obvious reason that they’re all wearing the same outfit! They just have different colored shirts on.



Oh and as you can see in the photo the "rules" on James' uniform have loosened up a bit, I think he may even have some red shirts for work now too...