1st Day of Kindergarten

Kaiden started his 1st day of Kindergarten today at his new school!!! He was so excited about starting school that he even insisted on packing his lunch last night all by himself and picked out his clothes. Of course I had to make sure he was putting together a balanced meal! :) Zachary was excited for Kaiden too! He even wanted to wear his backpack with his cars in it so he could be just like Kaiden, it was super cute. Kaiden walked in like a pro and had no porblems. His classroom was calm and his teacher was very welcoming. I counted the girl/boy ratio in his class and it looks like the girls outnumber the boys which I am sure Kaiden will not mind at all. I am just waiting for him to come home and tell me about some girl that likes him. :)

I am looking forward to watching him grow!! This is going to be a great year!!

showing off their backpacks!! Zachary insisted on having one too...it is filled with cars. :)

Holding hands, how sweet! Zachary never wants Kaiden to hold his hand, but today he did. Once Kaiden got to the door he told us that we could let go now. I guess we can not hold hands inside the school cause that would not be cool! :)

Zachary peeking in on another Kindergarten class, I think he wanted to join!

Kaiden is ready for Kindergarten. Look how handsome he is.

My new dance adventure

I am really excited to announce that I am starting a new dance program at a local cheer gym in Humble, Tx. It will be at Texas Xtreme Cheer. They currently do not offer dance classes at all and are looking to expand their gym by adding recreational dance and eventually making competitive dance teams. I will be running the dance program and teaching the classes. Since this is a brand new start I am in need of some dancers who are wanting to take dance classes. The classes will consist of a combination class with Hip Hop, Jazz, Pom, and dance technique. This is available for ages 5-18.

I have been dancing since I was 6 and continued on into High School and College. I took some time off to start my family.

I was not looking for this it just kind of fell into my lap. When I was doing the Upward cheerleading Camp a couple of weeks ago I was approached by the owner of Texas Xtreme Cheer. He told me that he wanted to start a dance program and he was looking for someone to run it. When he asked me if I was interested I thought he was joking at first but then I realized he was serious. I had to go home and really think about it and of course discuss it with Nick. I met with the owner last week and discussed details and I decided that this is what I have been secretly looking for. Last year I tried to get back into dance by going to a local dance studio to try and coach there but it was not the right time or the right place for me.

Starting a dance program from scratch is going to be hard but I have a lot of things in my favor. I have the facilities and the knowledge. All I need now is some dancers!!!! You can follow this link to get more information. www.tinyurl.com/txxtremedance

PLEASE PASS ON THE WORD!

Kaiden SWIMMING

Whooo Hooo!!! Kaiden is finally swimming without his floaties!!!!! We are so proud of him. This weekend we are house sitting and dog sitting for my parents, we call it "Hotel Jones". We are enjoying our mini vacation and taking advantage of their pool. This morning we decided to work with Kaiden on swimming without his floaties, which we have been trying to do all summer but not much success. Kaiden was a little scared at first but once he realized that he could do it he became a little fish. He said that he liked swimming without his floaties because he could go under water more. We made him put his floaties on while Nick and I were grilling burgers and getting ready for dinner and he wanted to take them off only after a few minutes because he said it was boring. :) Enjoy the videos of our new little fish!

Kaiden's first trip to the ER

Kaiden had his first trip to the ER and I hope we dont have to do that for a very long time! He fell on the playground at the church while he was in childcare. He was climbing the shoe rack which is only a couple of feet off the ground and he fell and hit the side of his head right on the ground. They put ice on him and brought his to me and he was crying really hard and i knew he was in a lot of pain. The childcare workers did a good job of knowing to bring him to me and they know him well enough to know that he was not ok. I am doing cheer camp all this week so I carried him around with me for a couple of minutes and tried to go sit him down. He began to really complain about his head and saying it was hurting really bad. He was saying that there was a buzzing sound in his ear and he was having a hard time sitting up by himself. He was really groggy and kept wanting to lay down. When he would sit up he looked dazed and dizzy and he would not eat or drink anything. So Nick met me up at the church and we headed to the hospital. Thank goodness I had my friend Jeannie there who took Zachary home with her so that we could concentrate just on Kaiden. On the way to the hospital before we even made it out of the church parking lot Kaiden threw up and he was not even phased by it. When we got to the hospital I had a hard time keeping him awake, he wanted to fall asleep and had a really hard time keeping his eyes open. They did a CT scan and thankfully it came back normal. So they diagnosed him with a minor concussion and told us to keep watch of him for the next 24 hours to make sure he does not have any other symptoms. Before we left the hospital and after a popsicle he was starting to act like himself. He took a nap when we got home and seems to be doing much better now. Thank God that he did not have more serious injuries. I was praying for God to protect him and heal his body, and he answered my prayers!

He got this sweet bear while in the hospital and he insisted on going to bed with him. His name is Tiny Bear. :)

This was when we were having a hard time keeping him awake. You can tell how groggy he is. Please excuse my face, I did not know Nick was taking my picture.