{growing up}

Well I've been waiting to post an update until I got some pics that my mom took last weekend but I feel like I'm getting too behind so I'm going to bounce around a bit the next few posts! Here's what we've been up to this week (last week I'll post about later).

So I'll start with pics from a month or so ago that I took off Becca's blog! Her son Cody had his 4th birthday party and invited a few friends to go out the desert and ride on his fun toys. Ethan had the time of his life for sure!

Yesterday was the Kindergarten program! Here's a picture of Rhett with his sweet friend Porter who's also in our ward: (how cute are they all dressed up!?!)

This is Rhett with his sweet teacher Mrs. Encarnation:

This is Mrs. Kelly, a secretary that Rhett fell in love with and she loved him back too :o).


The program was so sweet, they sang songs and then at the end there was a slide show. It had pictures of each of the kids and their recorded voices telling the favorite thing about Kindergarten this year. Rhett said "My favorite thing about Kindergarten is telling my teacher I love her each day". That is no joke either. Rhett loved her so much and told her she was beautiful almost every day. He is my little sweetheart for sure and is so very sensitive.

Speaking of sensitive - who knew your child leaving Kindergarten could be so emotional? I have cried more these last two days than I ever thought I would over something like this!! Rhett's first 2 weeks of Kinder were so hard for me. I would hold it together until he was behind those gates, then the tears would fall (masked by my big shades of course). I'd drive by the school at lunch time hoping to catch him playing at recess.

How do you just give away your child to someone you've only met once?? Lucky for me, Rhett could not have been matched with a better teacher for his personality. I could go on and on about how much I love Mrs. E, but let's just say she took my place for me while he was with her all those hours at school. Many of you know Rhett was a very late talker, at 3 he was only saying a few words so I wasn't sure how he'd do in full day Kinder. He still is not the most social child, he won't go up to kids and ask them to play with him - but he made many friends and so many sweet kids made sure to always include him. He went from playing by himself at the beginning of the year to making friends and playing in a group by the middle of the year. I don't care if my child is the most popular, or smartest - I just want them to be accepted and feel special.

Today they had a family picnic at school, it was fun and I took Ethan and Kade with me. As we hugged his sweet teacher one more time and walked out of the room and school once again I have tears streaming down my face and my shades on even though we're indoors. It just seems like he is growing up too fast.

And now to get me off this sad subject and to prevent a migraine from crying too much I will post some random pics I've been wanting to post.

Here's Rhett and Ethan in my bed during the week when Cody was gone. I made the mistake of telling them they could sleep with me and I slept horribly the whole week!


I thought this was cute:

My sister Ashley is home from BYU-Hawaii for the summer!! Here we are last week at lunch the day after she got home (thanks Jennie for watching my boys!).

Kade's obsessions: Balls, dogs, Legos (the big ones) and now Don't Break The Ice. I can't tell you how many times I set this game up for him each day! When the man falls down in the middle he says "Uh Oh! Faaa!".

He turns the stick upside down and pushes the blocks instead of hitting them. Genius, I know.

Well that's all for now. If you've read all this you are a true friend!! This was long and rambly but hey I am EMOTIONAL, what can I say.

XOXO

Brooke