A Time Out

When my husband says to the kids "If you don't stop now, you are going to get a time out" I often say to him, if I misbehave do you PROMISE to put me in a timeout? Nope he says, you are not that lucky!!! I feel like that is something that is said often at our house, and more times then not the threat is followed by a timeout. The other day Kooper tried to tell me that he is too little for a timeout. Of course all I did was laugh at him and left him to his timeout. The crazy thing is that you would think after coming off a timeout they would behave, but no not normally the case. At the end of the timeout we always give them a hug, and make them apoligize to whoever or whatever they hit/hurt/break/ect.

It seems like our family is always busy. As much as I try to limit our schedule it seems to be neverending obligations. Most the time it is fun stuff, just busy. Reid works a lot, last week he clocked 72.5 hours, luckily this week was only 42 hours. We'll see what next week brings.......

Addison is on an Indoor soccer league through the Soccer Stop in Holland. She is really enjoying it. Kooper continues to ask me when he gets to play soccer, I figure we will do something for him soon. Last spring he participated in Little Kickers, a program for 3-4 year olds offered through our township. He did okay, but every week he seemed to push kids more and just fall down on the field and yell. We figured maybe we would wait until the fall of 2010 and sign him up again, and see if he does any better. In the meantime I don't want to spend $100 on an 8 week program for him. Kendall has played soccer for several seasons, but has stated she is not interested in playing this spring. I am okay with that, I will ask her the next fall and see if she changes her mind. Here are a few pictures of them in soccer.

Time Flies

Time flies when you are having fun!!!! It has been 11 months, actually almost a year since my first and only post!!!! I am committing to updating this blog. Not tonight though, soon I promise!!!

Back to reality

Hello all, this is my first blog post. Although from the outside our lives may seem very borring, I promise you they are not at all (at least not to me). Yesterday we returned from a 5 day trip to Orlando, Florida. Our family created many priceless memories that we will hold near and dear to our hearts. It was the kids first airplane ride ever! They all seemed to do very well. Addison had some issues with her ears not popping, so it caused some discomfort. I kept giving her more and more gum so she had to chew harder and that helped some. Once we landed though she was A-okay! Kendall loved looking out the windows and being above the clouds, she thought it was so cool. Kooper was his usual strong willed self and tried to fight sitting still. Hey at 2 it is hard to sit still for too long, so I do give hom credit for lasting as long as he did. He stayed occupied with his leapster for a majority of the first flight and slept most the second.