Lil' Kickers - Lesson 3

Colin wasn't feeling the best today, but he really wanted to go to soccer. It was picture day and he was getting a new train if he made it for the whole lesson without tears. He did awesome! He had a great time, there were no tears and he even enjoyed getting his picture taken! He also loved getting his notebook stamped this week!

Emma had a great time playing with Colin before the lesson started, but as soon as it started she was sad because she wanted to "play with her Colin". It was so cute!

Matthew's Birthday Party

Colin and Emma were excited to get an invitation to go to Matthew's birthday party! Matthew always comes to their parties, but doesn't normally have one that we can go to every year. Colin and Emma both love playing with Matthew and his older brother Jacob, oh and the both really love Patrick (Matt and Jacob's dad)! We had a great time at the party and hope that Matthew had fun as well!

Colin being silly!

Emma thinking of warming up to all of the boys.

The boys watching a movie (Colin is in the green chair, Ethan is in the blue chair with the red shirt on and Matthew is on the couch)

Emma looking to get in trouble!

The boys all gathering for a picture

Matthew opening gifts (with his mom, Trish, reading the cards)

Ethan (in the red shirt), Matthew (in the white and orange shirt) and Colin's head

Emma attacking Patrick!

Lil' Kickers - Lesson 2

All was going great at our second lesson, we had our notebook to get our stamp in and Colin was having a blast. Then all of the sudden out of nowhere he comes running over to me crying . . . sigh. I ask him what is wrong and through all of the tears and mumbling I finally get that he has a splinter in his finger. Now how he has managed to do this I am not sure, it is on the inside of his ring finger next to his middle finger, so it is beyond me how this actually happened! But we get him a band-aid and I hope that this will help him feel better since there is no way he is going to let me look at it let alone try and pull it out. (He has huge fears of splinters after getting one in his foot in Pennsylvania, we are still working on it though.) He finishes the lesson teary eyed, but finishes and he has a small fit about getting the stamp in his notebook, but reluctantly does it anyway. His issue with the stamp this week is that it is a ladybug and he doesn't want a lady bug! I just can't win with this kid!!

Colin's trip to the zoo

Colin went to the zoo, again thanks to free tickets from mom2mom, on October 4th so we could see Spongebob!!! Luckily we got to see Spongebob before there was a large crowd. When we waited the line took about 5 minutes when we saw him later in the day the line was at least a 20 minute wait for your chance to get your picture taken with him!


We did see a few animals while we were there, but Colin wasn't really that interested in them, he wanted to ride the trikes, carousel and train that he saw. He also got to ride a camel while we were there!

Lil' Kickers - Lesson 1

Colin has started indoor soccer and is loving it. It is kind of hard to get pictures but I will keep trying! Our first lesson went well until the very end. At the end of each lesson they give the kids a stamp on their hands to tell them that they did a good job . . . well this didn't go over well with Colin. He went from happy and giggling to scared and crying in the amount of time it takes you to snap your fingers! We have had a few talks about it is not nice to write on yourself or anyone else and well, I guess he listened to me and took it to heart! Poor little guy, and poor Coach Toby who thought he had done something to Colin. We will have to look for a notebook for Colin to put his stamps in and hopefully he will like that!


Colin is, even after the stamp fiasco, excited about going back so that he can wear his uniform that we got him!

Bass Pro with Dylan

After Darwin the Dinosaur Michelle and I decided to take the boys for something they would really enjoy . . . playing on the boats at Bass Pro! Both boys really enjoyed playing all of the boats and ATV's!

Darwin the Dinosaur

Thanks to mom2momkc I won 4 tickets to go see Darwin the Dinosaur at the Lied Center in Lawrence. Rich and I talked and decided that maybe Emma wasn't old enough for it so I invited my friend Michelle and her son Dylan to go with us. Colin really likes Dylan because he is in school and "he teaches me stuff" as he tells me.

Michelle came down to our house and I drove all of us to Lawrence, thank you to Rich for changing out the car seats so that Dylan didn't have to sit in Emma's pink one!

Well, we watched and it was neat, but neither Colin or Dylan were really into it. The show is in completely darkness except for the dinosaurs which are big puppets that are carried around by actors. The puppets are actually just outlines of lights (like rope lights in the shape of dinosaurs). Colin made it about 10 minutes before asking if we could go and Dylan made it about 30 minutes. Thankfully it was only an hour show because shortly after Colin asked me if we could go he started doing the potty dance and we were in the middle section in the middle of the row!

Needless to say they were more interested with the birds out front of the Lied Center than the show!


Now that a little time has passed from the show Colin does talk about it and the dinosaurs. He remembers that the green dinosaur was the good one and the red one was the bad one, but that is really about all that he got out of it!