Panda Fun Run

Our family participated in Luke's elementary fun run again this year.  This year Seth wanted to run too.  It's a mile and we didn't do any practice, but I knew we could just walk as much as we needed to.  Ian was just a spectator this year.  Luke and Jer ran together and Seth and I were a team.  Luke did great and took third place in his age division.  He was so excited to get a ribbon.  Seth and I finished in just over 14 minutes.  He started off at a run (a fast one), but we mixed in lots of walking.  Whenever he started running again it was at full speed until he was tired again.  He wasn't really into pacing himself.  When we turned the corner and he saw the finish line he turned on the gas and ran across with a huge smile on his face.  Seth took fourth in the four and under category.  I know some of the kids ahead of him rode in strollers, but he didn't care.  I'm lucky to have such great boys.

My parents were there to watch and take pictures.  We headed over right after to Luke's soccer game.  Jer's parents came to that too and then we all met up with TJ and Amy's family for a little Mother's Day brunch.  TJ and Amy's kids came over to play that afternoon, and it was a great Saturday.  I am so grateful my kids have such awesome, supportive grandparents.

 Aren't we photogenic.  Ian covers his eyes or just runs away almost every time I get the camera out.

 Not sure what my face is all about.  Doesn't it look like I'm running fast?

Luke and Jer crossing the finish.

 Seth's big finish.

Go Luke!

Just Cute

This kid keeps us on our toes.  He is fascinated with the road and runs out there or rides his big wheel out there constantly.  Naughty.  He can Fred Flintstone that big wheel faster than any kid I've seen.  He also rode his little Strider bike we got him for his birthday around our entire cul-de-sac on Saturday.  I was encouraging him a lot, so he started saying "I doing so good."  He was!  Last night Seth was in the tub, and I went to the kitchen for a minute (he's almost four don't turn me in).  When I got back Ian was naked in the tub with him, and he said "I swimming."  No kidding...now that one needs a lot of tub supervision.  He speaks well enough now to totally rat out his brothers.  He said, "Seth helped me get in the tubby."  Seth just grinned from ear to ear and then they proceeded to slosh water all over the bathroom.

Easter

We had an awesome Easter weekend.  The kids went to a movie and hung out with my parents Friday night while Jer and I had date night.  They saw Rio and loved it...even Ian.  On Saturday we went to our neighbor's huge Easter egg hunt.  This could put any city egg hunt to shame.  She goes all out with cotton candy, tons of food, egg dyeing, cookie frosting, and of course thousands of eggs to hunt for with mega prizes.  The kids had a blast and each came home with a bucket full of candy!

We attempted to take a picture of the kids in their new ties on Easter Sunday.  You can see how that went.  Between my camera being out of focus and no one looking they didn't turn out so hot, but they did look very cute--I mean handsome.

We headed up to Preston on Sunday afternoon and had a great time.  The kids had a blast finding hard boiled eggs and then rolling them down the hill.  What a fun weekend!

Seth's Skills

I have a million things I want to post about, so I'm going to try to catch up before I just give up and throw in the towel.  We got a new computer which is awesome, but I got way behind on downloading pics.  I just thought I'd post a few of Seth's big accomplishments the last few months.  I'm pretty sure about five (maybe) people read my blog at this point, but I have been really faithful about making it into a book the last three years, and I do want to keep recording these memories.  So here goes...

This winter Seth learned to ski "all by himself" as he's proud to tell you.  He had a breakthrough when he went up night skiing with Jer--just the two of them.  Jer has some really cute pics of that night on his phone which I may or may not ever get on here!  It was a blizzard but once Seth figured out how to do his snow plow he didn't stop skiing all night.  He even had a crash up with a big snowboarder that didn't faze him.  He's still slow, but he's got the snow plow going on and he loves it.

Luke and Seth our last ski day way back in March.

Ian was along for this ride, so I wasn't skiing.

As soon as we had a few nice days here and there in April we got Seth out on his bike.  He picked up the riding without training wheels quickly, and we even upsized him to Luke's bike.  Luke got a new bike simply because he's the oldest...lucky!  Seth likes riding the bigger bike.  He still needs help to get going sometimes on this one, but by the end of the summer he will be a pro.  It's fun to watch your kids learn something new!