For those of you who follow our blog I have moved it to a different place at this point. I am looking at a new direction to take the website. Right now it isn't fully functional yet, but I am working to get it there. I will be posting to the new blog from now on. It is at joshandkristee.com. Please update your rss feeds accordingly.
Gavin had is first sleep over last night. He had is friend Caleb over to sleep after a party we had with the youth last night. They really had a fun time with each other. The kids took a bubble bath along with playing with cars and trains till about 11pm. Halee and Gavin were ready to go to bed (not really sleep), but excited about getting in bed. Caleb on the other hand wanted to keep playing. We had him get in bed even though it didn't make in happy. We let him sleep with one of the cars which made him fine with going to bed. They did spend a decent amount of time goofing off after we told them that it was time for bed. Once they fell asleep things went fine.
Caleb woke up at around 1am wanting his mama, but we got him calmed down and back in bed. Then this morning Caleb and Halee were awake at about 7:30 and Gavin kept sleeping. He even woke up while they were in his room playing, but laid back down because he was tired. Needless to say Gavin was a little tired this morning. I would imagine they will be exhausted today and in much need of a nap come this afternoon.
Overall it was a good experience and I know the kids had a good time with Caleb. Here are some photos I took of them in the bubble bath.
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| Gavin's 1st Sleep Over |
I took some photos of Halee's last day of dance. She really enjoyed the past 7 weeks learning dance, tap, theater and art.
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| Last Day of Dance |
I have now been on twitter for a couple of months now and am loving it. Jon is the one that got me into it and I use it a lot. For those that may not know it is like mini blogging about what I am up to throughout the day. Occasionally I post photos taken with my phone, but mostly it is used to communicate what I am up to. If you are on twitter and want to follow me my twitter name is joshmetts. If you are on twitter let me know I would like to follow you too. I have also added a twitter feed to the side of the blog.
We started 2 days ago to try to get Gavin potty trained at night, so he doesn't have to wear night-night diapers. Since it has only been a couple of nights he hasn't had a dry night yet. But the good thing is that he is waking up once he feels wet so hopefully before long he might start waking up to the feeling of needing to go. He is definitely ready and wants to wear underwear to bed. Hopefully it won't take him too long, but we have heard it takes longer with boys. I know Halee learned at a very young age and it was pretty quick for her to start waking up to go to the bathroom.
I have added 2 new photo albums to Picasa. The first one that I added were photos taken on Gavin's Birthday and photos of him in his new full covering Spiderman suit. He loves that thing!!
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| Gavin's 4th Birthday |
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| My Yamaha Roadstar Warrior |
The other day Nancee was telling me about a discussion that she and Gavin were having about things God made and things Man made.
It went something like this:
Who made the trees?
God
Who made cars?
Man
Who made houses?
Man
Who made the sun?
God
Who made the grass?
God
As you can see this carried on for a few minutes with various different things Gavin wanted to know who made.
Then pretty soon Gavin said, "Nana, what did woman make?"
That is absolutely hilarious!!! I really wish I could have been there to hear him say that, better yet get it on video. He really can crack you up with some of the things he can come up with.
It is really hard to believe that Gavin just turned 4 today. Where has the time gone? It is crazy to think that he is really that old already, I have looked at video of Gavin when we were living up in KC and he was just a baby when we arrived there. It really isn't that long ago that we started living in Lees Summit. These kids are growing way too fast.
What is interesting about Gavin's birthday is that it falls right in with Graduation for most of the high schools around here. We have had a number of parties to attend this weekend. (All family) We also had our church graduation ceremonies today. Seeing some of these kids that are now graduating high school really blows my mind. I was fortunate enough to know a number of them back when they were in elementary school and now to see them graduating high school is just too crazy.
For us it is a great reminder to really try to enjoy all that we can with our kids while they are young. It isn't going to be long before they are to that wonderful age when hanging with your parents isn't "cool". Then they are off to college.
On another note Gavin really had an awesome day, I guess I should say week. He had been waiting for his 4th birthday to get here for months. He got to have a party at school with his class, which he really enjoyed. As a matter of fact today he woke up at 6:30 asking if he could open his birthday presents. Trust me he was excited.
He got a full covering Spiderman costume (that he had been dying to get), a braum's big rig truck, power rangers coloring books, KU clothes, some dinosaurs, a spiderman puzzle, a Wall-e toy, and Optimus Prime transformer. He was so excited about receiving all the gifts. I took some photos that I will post up soon, he was literally bouncing all around the room as he was opening his presents. I plan on getting some photos of him in his full spiderman suit, but today he was wearing it with Cowboy boots. Trust me Spiderman with black cowboy boots is kind of goofy looking. Although I may throw in a few photos of him wearing that also.
I am really so proud of both of our kids and how well they are doing. They are really both getting to be "big" kids now and it is neat to see them maturing each and everyday. They are both learning so much at school and church, I must say that I am an extremely proud dad!
I can't believe how many photos I forgot to upload. Anyways here are all the links to the new albums created. You can read the description to each album on Picasa.
Gavin Meets Spiderman
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| Gavin meets Spiderman |
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| Halee & Gavin Photo Shoot |
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| Children's Day 2008 |
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| Halee Ballerina |
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| Gavin's School Trip to Zoo 2008 |
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| Great Wolf Lodge |
It seems like it has been a really long time since I have posted anything on the blog. There is a good reason for that. For those that do not know, Cessna switched me to 1st shift (temporarily unfortunately). So my hours have been messed up just a little bit, but is a lot better than 2nd shift since I can spend time with the kids in the afternoon after they get home from school. Therefore I haven't had any time to update the blog with anything. I do have some photos that I need to get up on the web.
Things are going great for us. The only thing that isn't is the fact that our house has still not sold. As a matter of fact we have still yet to receive any offers on the house. We really would love to get it off our hands. The kids are doing wonderful at school, they are both getting ready to finish up later this month. They are having fun at school, but both seem to be looking forward to the end of school.
Kristee is doing awesome. She has been really busy the past few weeks. She had her biggest week last week with 39 patients. If she can average 40 patients a week then they will hire someone to help her around the clinic. She is definitely getting to that point where she is going to need someone soon. It is really cool to see the clinic growing and getting new patients each week.
I have been doing well at Cessna. I am enjoying my job (as much as you can enjoy sheetmetal), I am definitely learning quite a bit. My job entails mating the upper and lower tailcone. There is a lot that goes into the job and a lot to learn. I am slowly but surely learning new stuff everyday. It does feel good to be working again,(not better than being a stay at home dad) mainly because it is providing us with much needed extra income and awesome insurance. I really like the guys that I am working with and get along well with them.
As soon as I get the photos uploaded to Picasa I will make another post. Hope all is going well with everyone!!
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