Been Forever. We are still alive. I promise.

I had someone ask me where we went since I have not been blogging in umm....almost a month. Yikes.

Yes, we are fine. Still chugging away. Patiently waiting for fall to come and stick here in Las Vegas. We had one great week of fall like weather and then back to shorts and tees until early next week. This weekend is forecasted to be in the 90s again. GAG! I am so ready for fall. I am thankful this is our last summer in Las Vegas. Yes you heard that correct. More on that later :)

The kids have been playing outside daily now when Riley wakes up from her nap. Devin took naps during the summer a few times a week and is now back to once every other week if that. Boo to that. I really would love to have that down time. Since he doesn't nap, we work on school work daily. He does work sheets with spelling and writing activities and most recently we started with math. He does VERY and enjoys doing it. He likes when I write down math problems as well as verbally quizzing. He is also very good at drawing and coloring. I am impressed with his skills when he brings art work home from school as well as when he does crafts and projects at home. On the negative side he is getting more physical with Riley. I do not mind a little wrestling, but he is just sometime down right mean to her for no reason. We work on it, but he has been spending some time alone recently.

Riley is a peach. She loves counting and singing and has a great time now working on her letters and sounds. She hasn't picked it up as quickly as Devin did, but she is also a lot more free spirited then he ever was. She is a true busy bee who gets distracted easily. She really enjoys doing art projects and using the glue stick. Today we made construction paper pumpkins and she did very well putting the glue on the face features and sticking them where they belong. She is such a great eater and will try everything at least once. She is very curious about food and textures when Devin was super picky from the beginning. Strange how they differ and we did nothing different with introducing food or offering new things...

Devin and Frank are headed to San Diego this Friday for a weekend boys getaway. They fly out Friday night and will be going to Legoland Saturday and then the San Diego Zoo Safari on Sunday and flying back in Sunday night. Its about a 5 hr drive to SD but the flight is only 50 minutes and was $39 each way so that is totally worth Frank not having to drive alone with Devin. Devin is VERY VERY VERY excited to be going on his first boys trip and he asks Frank to tell him about it every night at bed time. Dev packed today and included 6 pairs of socks, two outfits, a few books, a baseball hat, his Care Bear (to snuggle he said) and his loafers since he said he wants Daddy to take him to a "fancy restaurant" for dinner. He told me I need to go and get him a fancy outfit from his closet and he will be all set for SD. He is so sweet. We went up to his room and I helped him pack the other necessities of undies, jammies and sneakers.

It is amazing how busy one stays doing endless lists of non important things. Between pre-school, playdates, the gym, gymnastics, errands and housework my days are filled and before I know it bedtime has arrived. I cannot imagine what it will be like when the kids are in sports after school going different ways and whatnot! Speaking of, Riley will not be attending her gymnastics classes after this session is over. The instructor told me to sign her up for the 3 year old class since she excels in her 2 year old class, but the times did not work out with our schedule when Devin is in school. She will be signed up for a dance combo class starting the week we get back from NJ. It will be an hour long combo class of ballet, tap and 10 minutes or so of tumbling at the end. I think she will dig that class and best thing it will still be during the week while Devin is in school and its only 10 minutes away too! I cannot wait to see her all dolled up in her little outfit :)


Other than that....not much going on. We head to NJ in a few weeks and we are all looking forward to seeing family and friends. Kelly is coming out here the first weekend in December for the half marathon that I am running since she is now signed up as well! Yay Kelly! We will get the tree that weekend so she (and her bf) can help us decorate our massive 9 footer that we get. Maybe we will do some gingerbread houses too. Hooray for holiday festivities! Just 10 more weeks until Christmas...you ready? Haha, me neither but I have an idea what we will be doing for the kids.