Suzy was completely shocked!
You knew she had no idea since she was wearing workout clothes too :)
Missy had these cute cupcakes made (the baby's name is going to be Jessie Joy W.)
A group shot before heading home ...
I found this huge garden spider in our front bed the other day. I haven't seen it since but we looked it up and it's a "good" spider :)
My mom came for a visit starting last Monday night (she heads home tomorrow). We've been keeping very busy!
On Tuesday and Wednesday we spent a lot of time swimming. Last week was the last week the pool was open all day. The Y has limited hours now that school is back in session.
I'm still working on finishing up the boys' new rooms. They are both getting close and I'll post pictures soon! I repainted the letters in Rylan's room to match his new colors and the boys got to paint the "R" and "C" again.
Carter had his Kindergarten Assessment on Thursday morning. The teachers test the kids on basic skills such as letter and number recognition and a few more advanced things like sight words to get a feel of where each child is. That way they can even out the classes to make sure one teacher doesn't have a large percentage of kids that are further behind or more advanced.
I tried to ask Carter afterwards how it was and he didn't want to talk about it. He was a little nervous about the testing even though I tried to prep him for it and tell him it wasn't a big deal. I know he did fine. He did tell me he counted to 100 but didn't know any of the sight words (I've been lazy with that this summer - or just having too much fun!).
On Thursday we also went to the Adventure Science Center with my mom which is always fun.
On Friday I had my OB appointment so the kids stayed home with my mom. I got my lab work back today for that and my glucose test was fine but I'm a bit anemic so it's time to start taking iron supplements. I didn't do this with either of my first two pregnancies though. Hopefully I'll start having some more energy soon though!
I left my mom with a craft for the boys to do while I was at my appointment. I had gotten these dinosaur costumes after Halloween super cheap and the boys put them together.
Love the tail!
After my appointment we took the boys bowling.
Carter won by a couple of points but Rylan got a tiny rubber duck from a claw machine in the arcade so he was the big winner of the day, according to the boys at least.
That night we went to the Williamson County Fair - I'll do a separate post about that.
On Saturday morning, the boys had their field trip to the Franklin Farmer's Market. We spent the rest of the day at home catching up on yard work.
On Sunday morning we found some letterboxes. These were all drive-by ones that were in parking lots and only a few feet from our car. It was still fun and the boys had to follow clues as we were driving. Plus there was no whining about getting tired or wanting to be carried!
Carter had his first baseball practice of the season Sunday afternoon. We switched Carter this season to Brentwood Baseball Club. The Grassland league (which Carter played with in the spring) is really small in the fall for Carter's age group and most of our friends weren't planning on playing anyway. We are now on a team with two of Carter's friends from preschool and speech (twins Jack Henry and Christopher). Their dad is the head coach and their mom and I are good friends. One of the boys Carter became friends with on his last team (Drew), also switched to this league and is on the same team. The rest of the team are kids returning from the spring so Carter and Drew are the only new ones, but I think it's going to work out great. The parents are really involved on this team and there are a lot of assistant coaches so it's going to be a totally different experience.
When we got to practice, Jack Henry, Christopher, and Drew were already there. All of them gave Carter a huge hug. They are all great boys! Jack Henry though was disappointed that Rylan wasn't there (we left him home with my mom so he could nap). Rylan and Jack Henry shared a phone (with games on it) and chair during Carter and Christopher's speech session last year and become good buds :)
On Sunday night we went to a Nashville Sounds game. I expected the game to start at 6:35 pm (like they always do on Sunday). However, I hadn't realized that the game the night before had been rained out so they were playing a double header. The first game started at 5:05 pm, lasted 7 innings, and then the second game started at 8:05 pm. So we ended up seeing a few innings of both games. The Sounds were doing awesome though and there were a ton of homeruns.
Coke had a booth set up outside the game where you could make personalized Coke cans for free. My mom and I stood in line while the boys and Brian went in to watch the game.
Rylan's favorite part of the game (as always), the popcorn!
Rylan started preschool gymnastics today at Harpeth School of Gymnastics. I think our friends make up about half the preschool and mommy and me classes! I wasn't going to sign Rylan up until the Spring but he really wanted to do it and this way it's easy for us to have playdates with our friends after class each week.
Afterwards we went swimming again at the Y (we kept getting mis-information about which Y had open pool hours and finally the third one we went to was open!). Tonight Brian and I went to Carter's elementary school for the kindergarten parent orientation. We got lots of paperwork to fill out and lots of information to sort through. But Carter's teacher (Mrs. Colasso) seems great. She's young but has taught for 5 years already (this will be her 4th year at our school, which is how long it's been open). There is one girl in his class that Carter knows a little from preschool (she's never been in his class but they had recess at the same time. I'm glad he'll at least have one familiar face. He has his first half day on Thursday with the rest of the kindergarten boys (the girls do their first half day on Wednesday). I'm excited for him!
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