My little boy is 7...

Bobby turned 7 just a month ago (tomorrow) and I am still trying to wrap my mind around it. For some reason once the kids pass 5 their ages sound so old to me. When I was younger I could always imagine babies and toddlers but never them actually as kids. But now almost all 4 of them are kids. 

Bobby is such a love. He is the first one to hug me in the morning and willingly offer kisses anytime. I treasure this as I know someday that will fade (I really hope not but I'm realistic!). In some ways I feel he is all mine. Yes the girls and I are really close and have amazing relationships but I feel like I am his favorite person. Although very shy at school he does have nice group of friends now. He is always so caring and would give you the shirt off his back without a second thought. I love that he really puts others first. I love that he is polite to people too (especially adults). I can't tell you how many awful and rude children I come across working in the kids class and what a relief it is knowing Bobby (or any of my yahoos for that matter) is not like that.

Bobby is ridiculously smart. There are so many ways he's excelling beyond his age and grade in school. I hope he always has a love of learning and keeps inhaling all the information that he can. He even helps his older sister with her spelling and reading. 

Bobby isn't super crazy about sports but we think we've finally found one he enjoys. He just started playing basketball and he seems to love it. Michael takes him to practice and I love that they have that downtime together away from us girls. Bobby also loves minions. He collects everything minion and it's just his thing. 

  

And last but not least Bobby is TALL! He's in the 90th percentile for height (52 inches) and towers over all of his sisters. He is just under my chin now so I'm thinking by his 9th or 10th birthday we will be the same height. And we also wear the same size shoe now too. He is still suffering from asthma, sometimes really badly, other times just enough to annoy him. It doesn't slow him down but Bobby does get angry about it sometimes, not wanting to stop what he's doing for breathing treatments or his meds. We've been very lucky that he hasn't been hospitalized for it yet. We've always managed to get his breathing under control or at the doctor's office. I hope he outgrows asthma because I did not (although Michael did). 

Birthday time at Boomer's

Minion cupcakes by Nana

Studio Pics 

Christmas fun

Since Christmas was a month ago today, I figured it was about time to post the pics from it. We had a great time as usual. No one got sick over the winter break which I think is a miracle and the two weeks off flew by in the blink of an eye. The kids are at such a great age and everyone really gets into it. I love that Santa is still huge here and I cherish that because I'm not sure how many more years of that we really have. But for now we just enjoy it and the fun of watching the kids excitement.

And it finally happened. The very first Santa pic without anyone crying or screaming!  I'm not sure if this makes me want to laugh o cry.

All the grandkids together for my mom's birthday Xmas Eve

The stair shot on Xmas morning. The kids woke up about 6:15am...

Santa brought Loralee a circus tent to play in

3 months worth of pictures and updates on us :)

Holy smokes am I way behind on posting these days. There just doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day for organizing pictures let alone writing on the blog. I may have taken on too much this school year with 2 different PTA Committees, Room Parent in all 3 elementary kids classes, and Board Member again at our preschool. But I'm loving every minute of it and it's nice getting involved with things with other adults. Since Christmas is only 9 days away (WHAT?!) I figured I'd better get the last of our fall pics posted before the year is over. 

Everyone is doing well. All the class parties are kicking off this week (which I'm running) as well as Loralee's singing performance and Pajama Day thrown in at the elementary school for good measure. All my Xmas shopping is done, (including teacher gifts) but nothing is wrapped. There's been a lovely cough and some sniffles moving through our house but no one has actually come down with anything dreadful...yet. We are all counting down to Winter Break which kicks off at 12:50pm this Friday. The kids are looking forward to seeing Santa (again where did this month go?!! We've never gone this late before!) and relaxing at home for two whole weeks. 

So in case I don't get a chance to blog about Christmas until Easter, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I hope everyone stays healthy and safe!

Enjoy the pics :)

September

Lilly's first day of 3rd grade

Bobby's first day of 1st grade

Heidi's first day of Pre-K

Loralee's first day back at preschool

Heidi my soccer star

Lilly my soccer star

She played goalie this year which nearly gave me a heart attack

Random Sept night in our backyard

Mud Day in Oct at preschool. Luckily it's 95 degrees in Oct here.

Our neighbor's eucalyptus tree fell into our front yard one night in Oct. So that was fun. It provided some entertainment for all the neighbor kids for a few days before it was removed.

Lilly and Heidi turned 8 and 5

Then it was Halloween. It was our first year where the kids wanted to dress up with a theme. I'm sure you guessed it...Frozen. Lilly was Elsa, Bobby was Kristoff, Heidi was Olaf, and Loralee was Anna.

Cousins

Bobby was the narrator in his Thanksgiving parade at school.

I was able to take the older two kids to Disneyland and California Adventure during a school day just before the Fall break. We had blast!!

Everyone thought they were twins which actually worked out really well with having them ride together on some of the attractions.

I love the Xmas parade there. The toy soldiers have always been my favorite and they haven't changed in the last 30 or so years that I've seen the parade.

Boy were they excited.

Sleeping Beauty's castle and Small World are just stunning

And the looks on their faces when it snowed was worth every minute of that long, fun and exhausting day.

Then it's on to Thanksgiving

My loves. My everythings. These are the people who love me unconditionally, they are the only ones who's judgement of my character matters. And they have my back and my best interest at heart. They are what I am thankful for, always.

Goofing around with Granny

Camping in the desert

That's the end for now.