Eddie's first day of Kindergarten!

Hi everyone,

Today was Eddie's first day of school. He did great! Yesterday we had Story Time at the school. We met the teacher and his classmates. Then we rode the bus and checked out the route. It was fun. Eddie already knows 3 of the kids. There are 15 kids... 11 boys and 4 girls. Seems like a good group.

Today Eddie had swimming lessons at 9:00 am. We haven't taken then since last year's school ended. There are 3 kids in his class, and he did great!

Eddie's in afternoons and he'll be getting on the bus around 12:15. I took some pictures... got him on the bus and he didn't look back! I hope he has a great day!

In front of our "new tree"... I take a picture here each year to see how he's growing (and how the tree is growing!)


Showing off his backpack:


Cheese!


Getting on the bus...


In his seat...

A perfect day!

It was the perfect day! We loaded up the car and headed to Nantasket Beach. The tide was just going out... so we didn't have to worry about high tide. Lucky for us since I forgot to check the tide schedule before we headed out. We arrived nice and early and scored a good parking space right near our favorite beach spot. We brought along the frisbee which is a huge hit! Turns out the kids love it and are pretty a good at throwing it too.

Kevin's perfect throw to Dad:


More frisbee fun:



We recently purchased an orange "bucket" to carry our beach toys in and after many attempts to dig a hole and fill it with water, we figured out that if we bury our beach bucket... we can fill it with water and it makes a perfect place for floating our boat!

The famous orange beach toy bucket:


We wanted to bring our kite but it needs a few repairs right now... we did see some others flying kites at the beach though and the kids loved that... especially the Sponge Bob kite! The family next to us had a really cool rainbow kite and they rigged it up so that their kids could fly it too. At one point, however, one of their kids let go of their kite and it took off... In a stroke of genius, Ed hopped up and chased the kite and caught it in record time before it took off over the ocean. Everyone cheered! Ed saved the day! (Too bad we didn't have the camcorder at the ready!) It was pretty cool and the family was very grateful to have their kite back. Saving kites works up a pretty big appetite so we headed up to the picnic benches to have lunch.

After lunch, we went on the carousel ride courtesy of Eddie who paid for everyone with his own money since Mom and Dad were out of cash. The kids had a great time on the "horsie ride"... after that, we had a little more beach time before we headed home.

We made many sand castles which Ryan enjoyed kicking down... so while everyone was playing frisbee, Mom made a giant fish in the sand... and then we took a picture of it before the kids knocked it down.

Sand Castles:


Mom's Cool Fish:


You couldn't ask for a better day! Kevin and Ryan fell asleep in the car at 4:15 on the way home and didn't wake up til 6:30 this morning... going to the beach sure is tiring work! That was probably our last family beach since fall is practically here! It sure was fun though!

A perfect end to a perfect day:

I've been Tagged!

"Tag! You're It!"

My friend and blog inspiration, Norma (http://notnormajean.blogspot.com) has "virtually tagged" me with the following questionnaire:

1) The one household chore I don't mind doing is.... folding laundry but I don't like to put it away.

2.) The last person to make a surprise visit to my home... Kara who is in town visiting her Mom.

3.) I cannot comprehend...questions like this... really, after saving this a few times and trying to think of something genius, I have given up and settled on my lame answer.

4.) At this moment I wish... although Norma's answer was pretty good about the kids not ever fighting again, I'd sadly have to go with being forever thin as shallow as that is.

5.) The last serious discussion I had was.... something more serious than SpongeBob and crabby patties? I'm not really sure...

6.) The thing that made me laugh the hardest today was... let's see... Kevin saying "Mom, come on!" wanting to dance to Raffi, Ryan asking for a "reindeer pop" (ring pop) and Eddie putting on his johnny at the doctor's office today! Silly kids!

Okay...now I have to tag some blogging friends: if your name appears below, copy my questions and answers above, then paste them into your blog and change the responses to your own.

Paige, Debby, Shannon and all my other blog friends!