Tug of War & Field Day

On Friday May 3rd, Scanlan Oaks held their annual Tug of War contest. 

Addy's class came in 4th out of the 8 Kindergarten classes. (I'm not really sure how because they lost every battle!) They may not be the toughest class, but they sure are the sweetest! 

The following Monday, May 6th was the SOE field day.

Addy & her 2 buddies Sydney 

and Abby were her partners for the day. (And Alex of course!)

Some of the fun activities at field day were playing basketball

golfing

beanbag toss

seeing how hard you can hit the hammer

throwing a ball at the target

jumping on this board & flipping a cup of water up in the air

crawling on a hamster wheel

and the ever fun bouncy obstacle course. 

They had so much fun on this one that the girls and Alex missed out on 3 or 4 other activities because they kept doing this one over & over again.

Bayou Wildlife Park

On April 30th, Addy had her Kindergarten field trip to the Bayou Wildlife Park in Alvin. (They must take this same field trip every year because this is the same place she went last year.)

There were lots of animals for Addy to see

and pet!

And she got to ride a horse.

We also went on a tram ride around the park that lasted about 45 minutes.

They animals would come right up to the tram

and eat out of your bowl of food.

Here are some of the animals that we got to see while riding the tram.

 This place was the perfect field trip for Addy. She knew the name of almost every animal in the park. She was definitely in animal heaven!

Lately...

Here's what we've been doing lately....

(And by lately, I mean like the last month or two.)

Eating ice cream
(Addy has decided that she likes ice cream. So now I get it for her just about everytime she asks for it because I'm super excited that she's added one more thing to her very limited diet!)

Playing Candy Crush (First I got Nick hooked & now Alex!)

Riding our bikes & being superheros

Eating donuts

And reading a 3D book. (Thanks MawMaw for the new book.)

Playing baseball in the backyard

And on the field.

Collecting bugs

And playing in the flowers.

Playing hide and seek

(Can you find Addy?)

and playing soccer.

Going to The Little Gym for Addy's dance class.

(And Alex has even been joining in the gymnastics part at the end. I'm so proud of him & I think I'm even going to sign him up for a class in the summer.)

We went to Peyton's birthday party 

Where I got to spend some time with my BFF!

We've done a little shopping 

And my son took off all his clothes & drew tiger stripes all over himself. Roar!

We painted our room. It was brown mustard yellowish color & now it's a milk chocolate color.

And bought a new mattresses. Alex helped me pick it out, the Serta icomfort Savant memory foam mattress. 

I was doing crossfit 5 days a week until I strained my lower back muscle.

But now I'm doing this instead. (But at least I get to do it in my new comfy bed!)

And we celebrated Mother's Day by going to lunch at Don Julio's. And Nick got me a Kindle Fire HD since the kids have taken over both iPads & I can't ever read my books on them.

And the kids made me these super sweet cards!

And of course, we've been loving on each other. (I just love these pictures! They're proof that as much as these 2 fight, they really do love each other!)

We also went on Addy's field trip to the Bayou Wildlife Park, went to Camp Misty Meadows for a Girl Scout Horse program & Addy had tug of war & field day at school. I hope to do a separate blog post on each of those soon. 

Strike Out Autism Skeeters Game

Last Sunday we went to an autism awareness event at the Skeeters' stadium. (For those of you who don't know, the Skeeters are Sugar Land's minor league baseball team.)

Hope for Three, an autism awareness & advocate group in Ft. Bend, organized this special event called Strike Out Autism. It was open for 100 families to come to the stadium & participate. Each child that came, so both Addy & Alex, were partnered with a volunteer to be their buddy for the day.

 Addy & Alex's buddies were Vanessa & Mark. They were a married couple & they were very very sweet!

They took the kids on the carousel

and the playground while Nick & I were able to go chat with friends & relax a little.

The kids were also able to meet the Skeeters mascot Mo

and get their glove signed by some of the Skeeters players.

And then they both got a balloon animal. Addy got a pink cat & Alex got a green dog/dinosaur.

After the kids had played for about an hour, all the families & volunteers headed down to the field for a parade. The kids played a little catch while waiting for the parade to start.

And then we all walked around the stadium in the parade. Alex thought it was pretty cool to be a part of the parade & loved that everyone was cheering & waving as we walked by.

After the parade, the baseball game was starting. Hope for Three had a buffet for the families to eat but there was not anything on it that Addy liked. So we ended up leaving to get her some lunch & did not stay for the game.

Even though we did not stay for the game, we had a wonderful time. It was our first time to go to the Skeeters stadium & it was really cool. They have a playground, slash park, carousel & a swimming pool & you can see the field from all of those places. We definitely need to go back & actually watch a baseball game soon!