It's over and it's just beginning!

Today was the last day of school for the boys! When they go back in September it will be the boys AND Hannah!
I can't believe another year is over. It was a strange year, I'm sure because of the arrival of Harper half way through the school year! It seems like it flew by and yet it seems like it took forever! I'm sure summer will be the same way!
The boys had an awards assembly today. Hayden received the Thomas Studious Award for "staying on track with great behavior and attention to your work". Harrison received 4 awards! The Young Artist award from the art teacher, a Keyboarding Certificate from the computer teacher ( 15 wpm with 95% accuracy), the Most Creative Award and the Starburst Award because he "Is always orbiting the classroom and loves astronomy" from his teacher Mrs. Warner. Both boys brought home their report cards and I'm proud to say they were both excellent!
All in all, I'm glad the school year is over (Whoo Hoo, no homework!) but also sad that my kids are growing up so fast! Harrison will be in 4th grade next year!!!! How did that happen? Come to think of it, Hannah is starting Kindergarten and Hallie will be starting preschool! Where did the time go??? In all seriousness, we were very lucky to have such great teachers for the boys this year. Mrs. Beatty is just awesome, I intend to send every one of my kids to her for 1st grade! Mrs. Warner has just been unbelieveably helpful in working out some "bugs "with Harrison!

The kids have started base/softball! Hannah had her first game on Monday night. She got a hit and made it to 1st base! Unfortunately, she was last in the line up so that's as far as she got! The boys are also doing well, Hayden got to play 1st base last night and Harrison got a hit, made it all the way around the bases to score and he got to play catcher for an inning! It's going to be a LONG month!

Harper is finally rolling over!!! It seems like it took her forever! She still doesn't have any teeth-the other 4 all had one by now! She is also VERY close to sitting up on her own! She tends to lean too far forward. This is especially true in her bathtub where she has taken to splashing like a fiend!

In other news, Jeff smashed his finger yesterday at work. He thought for sure that it was broken but the x-ray said otherwise! The doctor called it a crush injury (he smashed his finger while pounding rail). Not a broken finger but still a significant injury. That was fun. He's in some pain (go figure) but he still went to work today! Tomorrow he goes to see an occupational therapist, I'm not sure what for...I guess to make sure it heals properly!

This weekend we head off to Mackinac Island with the entire Schafer (Thelen/James) clan! Should be fun! The kids are VERY excited as are we, it's just more work for us!

Better go, this is long enough!
Until next time-

A Little Fun...

So the saga continues...Poor Hayden! We told the kids last night that if Hayden was feeling better we'd take them to the drive-in and see Night at the Museum 2. He went a good 7 hours without any puking so we thought we were good. He complained of a headache so we gave him some Tylenol and left for the movie. We made it to Coldwater when all of the sudden I hear a commotion in the back of the van...Hayden is throwing up again! LUCKILY I thought to grab the bowl he'd been using all day. Very Lucky...there was a lot! He'd been drinking a lot and even managed to down some toast and a couple cookies (it's Hayden) during the afternoon. We pulled over in the Burger King parking lot (since we were going to eat dinner there anyway) so we could "take care of things" if you know what I mean.(sorry grass) As I was trying to comfort Hayden I gently told him that we'd have to go home now and he started arguing with me! I told him that if he did this again at the drive-in there wouldn't be any privacy to get rid of it, etc. He insisted and the other kids were ticked that I even suggested we go home so...we continued on to the drive-in, although we didn't eat dinner. I don't think anyone was really hungry anymore!
Once we got to the drive-in things were surprisingly relaxed! Hayden managed to scarf a soft pretzel and some 7Up and then nagged at us for popcorn! Against my better judgment I let him have a little. I figured, I know what it's like to bring that back up but I'll let him have that life lesson himself. Luckily for him (and the rest of us) he kept everything down. Jeff suspects ,and I think I agree with him, that the Tylenol upset his stomach and it wasn't necessarily the "bug" that caused his little episode in the van!
The kids were all AWESOME during the movie. Harper slept through the entire thing and there wasn't any fighting between the other 4! All in all it was a very nice family outing and we were able to have a little fun despite the yucky start to the day!

It couldn't last forever...

I was just thinking the other day about how it had been a while since any of the kids had been sick. Shame on me...Hayden woke up with a stomach ache this morning! The poor thing threw up 5 or 6 times today (I lost count) and once it was so violent he bit his tongue and drew blood!
Keeping my fingers crossed that it doesn't work it's way around the other kids!
Stay tuned...

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