Cameron is doing AWESOME in Middle School. He is loving it and despite the fact that I have had to learn to let go of him even more it is going great. He has made a ton of new friends is becoming more responsible for his own work all the time. He even has a girlfriend already!!!! Not sure we are ready for this but seems pretty innocent. He finished up a great season of 6th grade tackle football without any major injuries and just completed his first year of middle school wrestling which also went pretty well. Now we are right into Red Rhino Club Wrestling with no break in between. Keeps him busy and out of trouble. Also keeps us pretty busy!!!
Clayton and Calvin are really enjoying school this year. As mentioned previously we did make the very difficult decision to hold the twins back this year so they are in 4K again. So they go to school Monday through Friday from 7:20 to 11:00. Still plenty of mommy time. Initially I was very worried. Worried about them making new friends, missing their old friends, being bored, frustrated, looking to big compared to the other kids in their class etc. You name it I worried about it. 3 months later and they are doing GREAT! They are now in a class of 18 (vs. 8 last year). They have each made their own "best friends". Clayton and Nathan are inseparable - unfortunately they also like to get into trouble together so that is a bit challenging. Calvin wants to spend all of his time with Samantha and even asked if he might marry her someday. I suggested waiting a couple years to start thinking about that. Some of the issues that we were dealing with last year with Calvin not getting his work done is like a distant memory. Now he is getting his things done early and has plenty of time to play with his friends. They both are continuing work on writing all their letters and will be starting to work on early reading skills soon. As for activities for these crazy boys they did an adorable flag football league that daddy coached, took a little time off and just completed a pee wee basketball unit. Beginning in January they are going to be doing Red Rhinos Wrestling club also and we are hoping to even enter them in a tournament or two. I will make sure to post updates on how that goes. As for at home OH MY OH MY. Sometimes I just sit back and laugh, not sure what else to do. They can be the sweetest, cutest, funniest boys on earth and in a split second ------- well not so what else do you do but laugh - They will grow out of this too and then I will miss it so just remind me to enjoy every crazy moment before they are gone.
Kenzie is loving her 3K program at St. Paul's Little Learners. She is in a class of 10 kids and goes Tues/Thurs from 8 to 10. Her favorite part of school is going to gym class and when it is her show and tell day. She must ask multiple times every week if it will be her turn. Which only happens every 5 weeks so it gets to be a lot of sad faces when it is still not her turn. She has made some new friends however we did find out that you can not always believe what a 3 year old tells you because she talked about one little girl in her class that was her best friend and then I asked the teacher and she had yet to have even talked or played with the girl yet. Luckily we found that she is beginning to break out of her shy shell - unfortunately we found this out when she spent the majority of her first every Christmas program taking turns between picking her nose and poking the little boy next to her while talking to him. It was pretty funny thinking back but at the time I swore everyone there must be thinking "whose naughty little girl is that" then I heard from all the other parents that they only noticed the things their kids were doing that they should not have been. Other then school Kenzie is getting to be a little Diva at home. I have a feeling I am getting paid back for treating her like the royal princess. She likes to scream and whine when she does not get her way - but she is also 3 and is trying to keep up with all these big boys so she has to find her way I guess. She is not into sports so much but is definitely into fashion!!! Loves her nails painted and loves to wear dresses and play dress up. Not to big on having her hair done and loves to pull out pony tails and clips but is very girly!!! I think we are going to have our hands full with her. 3 years old and already arguments about what she will be wearing and how her hair is done. My next job is to get her into some more dance classes that is all she has been asking about recently is when she gets to go back to dance class.
There is my brief but not really brief update. I will try to keep up a little better again!!! Oh and St. Nick brought me a new camera so I will be back to pictures soon!!!!! Merry Christmas all - hope to see you soon.
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