The kids went back to school after being off for 2 1/2 weeks. They're always excited to get back to their routine and their friends which is good. I love that they love school.
Kyler is wrapping up his Winter Basketball season. He has his final tournament this weekend. All his games were on Sundays this time which was new for us. It ended up being nice in the fact that we didn't have to worry as much about conflicts but bad in that it didn't give us a "day off" on the weekend. They've had a good season so far. They lost their first two games but then they started figuring out how to play as a team and not only learn strategy but actually use it and have been winning since then. Hopefully, they do well in the tournament but if not, it's still been a really good experience for him. As he's wrapping up basketball, he's starting up Spring Baseball. For the majority of the time he's played, we've been very blessed with amazing coaches and this season is no exception. The coach he had his first year of machine pitch drafted him and Kyler is thrilled. He's more than ready to get started and can't wait for his first practice on Friday. Mike and I always take a deep breath when we get the schedule because Spring Ball is pretty intense and we know what's ahead of us. Kyler on the other hand just thrives in it and truly loves every second. There's no such thing as too much baseball as far as he's concerned.
Mikaela is busy learning her recital dances. Both her tap and ballet teachers are giving them challenging dances and she's loving that. She can't wait to go to class every week which is fun to see. I love to watch her dance as she's starting to come into her own and really fall in love with it. Her teachers are noticing too which has helped boost her confidence.
Kamden is back in gymnastics and doing pretty good. MUCH better than our experience a year ago which was a relief. He had a choice to make because we told him he was going to do SOMETHING. He could play T-Ball or he could go back to Gymnastics and he picked Gymnastics. So far he's having fun....fingers crossed it stays that way.
Kyler and Mikaela are getting ready for a dance competition in Ballroom the end of March. Mikaela's doing one group dance and then Kyler is doing two plus a few dances with Jayden. They're both having fun and I love that they're learning something cultural that they can do for the rest of their lives if they wanted to.
Kyler and Mikaela are also back in the church choir getting ready for the Spring Musical. Mikaela wants to try out for a drama part this time and Kyler is trying out for a solo again so we'll see what happens.
Mike is still extremely busy at work unfortunately. Just when he thinks he's got everything like it should so he can get home when he's supposed to...something will happen or change and he's back at square one. Very frustrating for all of us.
The end of January I had my arms full coming downstairs and didn't see Kamden's shoes on the stairs and fell. I missed the last two steps and fell on my left foot
with it turned in and fractured it. There's nothing you can really do with a foot fracture so it's just going to take time to heal. I'm wearing tennis shoes way more than I ever have because they support it the best and hopefully by the end of March it'll be back to normal.
My blood clots were getting out of control so I had to break down and join a gym. I can only go right after I drop the older two off at school or late at night because of the kids and Mike's schedules. If I go late at night, I'd never see Mike so that leaves first thing in the morning which means Kamden going to their childcare program. It's been a challenge for both of us. Overall, it's good for him so he can get ready for kindergarten. He liked it the first couple of days...after that, not so much. Now when we go he cries. To that I say "tough" because Mommy can have an hour to exercise but it does make for a rough start to the day. I asked him what he's going to do when it's time for kindergarten to which he plainly stated that it's not time for him to go to kindergarten so he doesn't have to worry about that yet. Gotta love this 4 year old's logic. ;) The downside is that he's been constantly sick and is sharing it with the entire house. I wasn't surprised at Kamden but was at the older two and Mike and I. I thought our immune systems were built up, but apparently nothing is a match for these super powered childcare germs. We've been to the pediatric urgent care several times which is getting old fast. It's frustrating that trying to work out for an hour a day is causing this many problems and issues. It truly should NOT be this hard to exercise. For now, we're trying to limit Kamden going to a couple of times a week. Mike's been trying to get home at a decent hour the beginning of the week so I can work out earlier in the evening. That way Kamden's not exposed to as many things. Plus, he doesn't mind going a few times a week which gives me a reprieve from a power struggle, which I win, but is never fun.
I was busy on ebay this month selling the kiddos' out grown Summer clothes. I think I finally figured out a good time to list Spring and Summer clothes. It's a very time consuming process but worth it in the end and helps so much in getting their new Summer clothes.
On a high note, we picked out and booked a family vacation for this Summer. It's been 3 years since we've had a REAL family vacation so it's definitely time. We looked at a bunch of places but finally decided on an all inclusive family resort in Cancun. They promised us that Cancun in June is completely different than Cancun over Spring Break so we're taking her word for it. We're very excited and the kids are already counting down the days!
We sent Abbey in to get spayed and declawed in January. It went very well but as she was healing from that, she got accidentally bumped with the garage door as we were coming in the house and it fractured her pelvis. Apparently, it's a common thing with cats and they can do the same thing jumping off of things...who knew??? I'm learning waaaay more about cats than I ever wanted. Well, between that and healing from surgery...it was just too much and so her white blood cell count went up from the stress and she got a fever and quit eating. So she had to go back to the vet and spend another night. They put her on antibiotics and baby aspirin. She had a reaction (of COURSE she did) to the baby aspirin and got sores all over her face and ears because apparently, cats don't do well with pain killers. Again...waaaaay more information about cats than I wanted. She cost us a small fortune this month but she's almost all healed up now and back to normal. As Mike puts it...no good deed goes unpunished. ;)
Our year is off to a very rough start as our saddest news is that we had to put our sheltie, Kelsey, to sleep Tuesday night. As hard as I thought it was going to be...it was SO much harder. She turned 16 this month so she's been through it all with us...from being with just me in college, to Mike and I dating, to being engaged, to being married and then kids 1, 2 and 3. I can't imagine life without her and we're all heartbroken right now. This last year has been rough for her and she's aged a lot in the past few months. She was struggling and I couldn't remember the last time she was happy and excited about anything. We took her to our vet Tuesday night and he said it wasn't going to get better for her, only worse so we decided it wasn't fair to her to make her keep struggling. It's one of the hardest decisions we've ever had to make. It'll get easier with time but right now the void she's left behind in the house, our family and our hearts is just SO big. All I know for sure is that she was VERY LOVED and will be VERY MISSED...our sweet little baby brown eyed girl!
That's all our news from the year so far. Hopefully, things settle down...a lot. We hope your years are off to a more uneventful start.
Sending out lots of love and hugs,
The Glade's
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