More soccer

And a new gym outfit!  I found this super cute gymnastics leotard at the consignment sale for $2! CeCe loves all things pink and sparkly so this was perfect for her! 

 Kiki and Papaw Duke are in town this weekend!  We love having them here.  CeCe and Papaw Duke had fun playing this morning! 

 They got to watch Bryce's soccer game today!  Bryce was so excited to have them out there watching and cheering for his team.  

 The U6 Seminoles sure looked better today than they did last week!  The teams were more evenly matched size wise and our boys and girls had practiced hard Tues. and Thurs.  Thurs. the whole hour was spent teaching them all how to be more aggressive, and it paid off!  Bryce actually kicked the ball a good bit today, and even stole it from the other team a couple of times! 

CeCe was a great cheerleader for her 'Bice' today.  'Go Bice Go'! 

 Aggression practice paid off! Grrrr! 

No, they didn't win today, but you can tell by this picture that it doesn't matter.  They were so proud of themselves and they should be.  They played so much better today than last week and had a great time.  The season is looking up!

Belle

I went to the local large consignment sale on Thursday and found this Belle (or as CeCe calls it, Booty Beast) costume for $3!  It is a perfect fit for her.  She's not much into dressing up in full costumes (loves tutu's, hats, jewelry and accessories though) so I wasn't sure if it would be a waste of my money or not.  But for $3 I decided to try it.  I'm glad I did!  

Bryce's 1st soccer game

Bryce had his first soccer game today!  They have only had 3 practices so it was a little chaotic out on the field, but he loved it!  They lost.  Pretty bad.  The other team had two kids that were at least a head taller than Bryce and they had obviously played last year.  All of Bryce's team are first timers and Bryce is actually the tallest on his team (he's never been the tallest anywhere before!).  I think he learned more today at the game than he had learned in the 3 practices combined and I'm sure the other kids did too, so things can only go up from here, right?  They all tried so hard and enjoyed playing together and that is the most important thing to me.  Bryce is so fast.  He could get up to the ball before anyone else, but is scared to be aggressive and steal the ball from someone so he ended up just running with the pack most of the time.  

 The cheering squad

 CeCe couldn't wait to get on the field and run around after the game!

New Groove

I think we've finally gotten into a new groove.  The kindergarten groove that is.  Bryce seems to be enjoying his days at school much more now and we even 'played school' yesterday after school for 1.5hrs. straight!!  Our days seem much busier with almost no 'me time' for me anymore.  I'm slowly getting used to that too!  CeCe is adjusting to her much later naptime (2:30-4:00 now as opposed to 1:15-3:45 for the last 2 years).  She is still loving school and asks everyday if today is Tuesday or Fursday for CeCe's school? On Tuesdays after dropping CeCe off at school I go to volunteer at Bryce's school for a few hours.  Right now we are mainly pulling workbook pages out of workbooks and organizing them for teachers.  Boring work but it helps the teachers out so much.  There are no assistant teachers here.  Crazy, huh?  I would not want to be the only teacher in a Kindergarten classroom with 16 kids! Bryce started soccer practice last Thursday and we think his first game might be this Sat.  We will find out tonight.  They practice every Tues./Thurs. from 6-7.  At first I was not excited about the late start time for practice, but it seems like it is going to work out.  I pack the kids supper and CeCe eats at practice and Bryce eats on the way home.  With it being later Anthony can come!  He meets us there and CeCe and I leave a little early to get her in bed on time and Bryce gets to stay up a little later than normal on those days.  CeCe is still loving her gymnastics class and can be found flipping all over the house and yard lately.  I need to get it on video, she will just flip and flip and flip until she runs into something.  

This weekend our friends The Aldridges invited us to go out on their boat with them.  The weather was PERFECT and we had a great time!  

Here we are on the leisurely drive out.  

And here we are on the crazy, fast, bumpy, windy, wet drive back! We had to hurry back after eating supper at Hemingways to beat the sunset.  We made it but it was a crazy ride!  The kids loved it and giggled almost the whole way.     

Saturday the weather was also perfect so we decided to try out the cable jack that's been on our back patio these last 3 years.  And what do you know, it works?  It was so fun to be able to watch the game outside! (even if the game itself wasn't the greatest).  

 Touchdown Bulldogs!

Tropical Storm Lee

The Tropical Storm roared in Friday afternoon and as of now (Monday afternoon) it is still very windy and rainy here.  Our rain gauge overflowed Saturday afternoon (it  holds 5 inches) so we don't know how much we've actually gotten but our best guess is close to 10-12 inches.  We are lucky to have wonderful drainage in our neighborhood so we don't have any problems from all the rain.  We were bummed to have to find inside things to do for our last 3 day weekend of the summer, but we have made the best of it.  Saturday morning we drove over to Foley to the outlet mall and actually stayed pretty dry.  We decided to try Lulu's for lunch and at noon on a holiday summer weekend we got seated right away.  Sometimes the stormy weather pays off! Lulu's was wonderful as always!

 Saturday afternoon while CeCe was napping, Bryce got out his new dinosaur workbook and coloring sheets and worked and colored for THREE HOURS!  WoW!!   This kid never ever liked to color before kindergarten. He is doing so good too!  His handwriting is getting better after only 2 weeks in school.  I'm so proud of him.

 Sunday morning we thought we were going to have a break in the rain so we headed out on a walk.  We got to the front of the neighborhood and the rain started.  When it rains, it POURS so we got soaking wet trying to run back home!  It was fun though!  When we got back CeCe jumped down and ran back out in the rain, she wanted to do it some more!  Soon the rain stopped and we just played outside in our soaking wet clothes for a while.

 And we decided that since we were already wet and nasty that we would give Reagan a much needed bath.

 After warm baths for everyone, we built a fort in the living room and settled in to watch The Jungle Book.

 Last night we got the play dough out.  CeCe is 'tasting' the broccoli that Bryce made.

 This morning Bryce was watching a new dinosaur show on the discovery channel and CeCe wasn't interested.  We got her little DVD player out and she settled down to watch Word World.