Jax and Kodee

jaxon is helping me type this post and this is what he wanted as the title.
Jaxon's been in preschool two weeks now. He goes to Dorothy Stinson on Mondays for 2 hours and Head Start Tuesday to Friday for 4 hours. Head Start is great because they serve breakfast and lunch family style and the kids take turns setting the table. They help them brush his teeth and wash hands. They have the same schedule every day and there is structure. They play inside and have story time, play outside, play inside again and have music time. We as parents have to sign him in and out every day so Jaxon can't ride the bus. That makes for a lot of back and forth with all three kids. Kodee wants to stay so badly it takes a few minutes to get out of there. Sorry, no first day of school pictures.

Jordan's loving school. All of his students love choir and the classes are doing really well. He had a few attitude problems but he straight up told them to go to another class if they didn't want to be there. They are now gone.
This he starts 2nd hour at the middle school and has 80 kids in there. Wowza! 4th, 5th, and 6th hours are at the high school. He ends back at the middle school for musical theater. He comes home to teach private lessons from 3:30 to 6.
Now that the lessons are in the living room I can hear all the music and it's been nice to listen to. I have 4 piano students that I teach at 3.

My friend Janeen started Zumba (the new rage) and wanted me to go with her so I started last week. I'm so coordinated that the very first grapevine we did about 2 minutes in I tripped over my own foot. It's an interesting and intense hour of dance, but I'm actually enjoying it. My legs have never been so sore . I could barely sit for three days. I love that this will help with getting some more baby weight off because honestly it's not coming off as fast as I want it to.

Kodee has been right on track for being in the terrible twos. He gets into everything, but when we ask him to clean it up he just walks away like he didn't hear us. He always asks what things are and when I tell him he says, "Oooohhh!" He's just soaking in everything. He and Jaxon tell me they love each other and me several times a day. So cute. About the last week when I leave their rooms at night I tell them I love them. They love me back. No, I love you! We get louder each time we say it. It just tickles my heart.

They both still adore sister Gemma. Jaxon will hold her several times a day and he makes her laugh (probably more than I do) He's got a special bond with her. Kodee loves her too. He loves to squeeze her hands and feet. A little too hard sometimes. I still have so much fun dressing her up every day. She is growing so fast. (Literally-She's just 4 months and she is wearing some of her 9 month clothing) As long as she's healthy. Her hair is terribly flat in back so we're just waiting for some more reddish hair to come. Jordan constantly tells her head to grow hair, grow! She's been sitting in the bumbo lately and it's a pretty cool thing. Kinda funny looking sometimes because she tries to suck on the seat. She recently found her toes and this week started eating them. I love this stage because it's cute and reminds me how limber I'm not. We've seen some differences from the boys this week. She is definitely more sensitive. We took her to the first Safford football game (Jordan helped with concessions) Friday night. She cried the whole 2nd quarter and half time. I guess the crowd screaming, air horns blaring and band trumpeting was too loud. The next day was Jaxon's first soccer game. She cried the whole game. But, I don't blame her. It was 107 degrees outside! She was just plain miserable. It helped a little when I started putting cold water on her head, but then I would yell for Jax and she started up again. Jaxon loved the water breaks!

Now the game-Jaxon stands around looking clueless more than I thought he would. He was always the last one after the ball. Good thing there are 2 aggressive boys on his team that scored for them. Even the other team scored for them too. I think it's because they were too darn hot to care. We all came home and ate popsicles to cool down. Hopefully the weather will cool down in 2 weeks.




One of Jaxon's creations