Stone Bridge Church was presenting Destiny Sports Camp. They offered a lot of sport choices. You could do a morning or afternoon session or both. Ricky picked both. Morning football and afternoon baseball.
I was really surprised he wanted to do a sports camp. He liked football more. I was a little worried about baseball because it was in the afternoon and it was hot!! He survived though. It was suppose to be a 3 day event, but on the last day it rained so camp was canceled. We were so disappointed.
They ended the program with a ceremony and every participant received a towel.
Stone Bridge Church offers many camps. We will definitely be back next year.
 Oh I forgot to mention the best part. The Destiny Sports Camp was FREE!!

Ricky and Noah both attended camp. This was awesome because Ricky had a friend and I had got to car pool.

HANA'S NEW TEETH

In June Hana had her first Dentist appointment. She did great on x-rays. Unfortunately she wasn't that great on the cleaning part. Her x-ray results weren't very good and showed 2 cavities. I wasn't to surprised because she's a sweet addict.
Needless to say we had to go back. She was scheduled to get 2 shots. OUCH!! They had this all planned out and she was going to get a sleeping agent. We got there early, they took her in the back and gave her some sleeping medicine. Now all we had to do is wait an hour. Well an hour passed and Hana was still not showing signs of sleepiness. This wasn't going to be good. Unfortunately they don't allow you back there for procedures. They say the kids do better if they don't see the parent. I'm sure I did better not seeing her get the procedure done also. She wasn't in there long and from what I understood didn't really cooperate. I hate the fact that her head had to be restrained in order for them to do the work. I of course didn't know this. I only heard Hana telling little Ricky. She did reassure Ricky that it didn't hurt much. Just a little bit. Thank goodness!!
The procedure wasn't long, but when they handed her to me she was crying so hard she was hyperventilating. My poor little girl. They told me that she will probably sleep the rest of the day and no running around. She fell asleep on the car ride home. Every minute or so you heard her wimper from all the crying. So sad! I guess that is all she needed because there was no resting after that. Only my child would not have any reaction to a sleeping agent. We ended up going to chuckee cheese and Taco Cabana.
She is very proud of her silver caps and shows everybody.
She was talking to me and says:
"Look mommy, I have gray teeth"
"No, sweetie, they're silver"
"WOW (in her whispered surprised voice) they are going to look so pretty with all my dresses"

I just love her take on life.

                           There are 2. Each is on the bottom. One on each side.

HANA'S 4 YEAR WELL VISIT

The 4 year well visit is the visit that every parent dreads. They get 4 shots!! Horrible!!! I had planned on only having Ricky take her, but it was a new doctor and I wanted to meet her.
I felt awful because she was so happy and cooperated for everything. When it was time to hold her legs down she was giggling and thinking she was going to get tickled. My heart just dropped. I couldn't watch. She was great though. She cried, but not for very long. We made it up to her and took her to Target to pick out any toy she wanted (within reason that is).
Hana weighs 36 lbs which is 51%; height 39.8 in which is 38%; her body mass index is 16.1 which is 72%.

                               Kids with Babi after Hana's Dr appointment.

                                    Hana and her ballerina mouse that she picked out.

                                    Hana showing her boo boo's =(

10th Tooth!!!

Wow! Ricky's teeth are falling out fast. I'm only assuming this is normal. Since i'm so behind on my blogging I don't have the exact date, but do know it was a couple of days after his 9th tooth.
OMG! I'm horrible I don't even remember where he lost it. To top that off the tooth fairy forgot to come that night. He was so disappointed but understood that even the tooth fairy gets vacation.
The tooth fairy made it up to him and left him an extra dollar. A grand total of $4. Whoop Whoop.

  It's the bottom left if you're looking at it.

ANOTHER TOOTH FELL OUT!!

On May 26th we decided to go to dinner at Willies Ice House. While Ricky was eating and playing in the sandbox he lost a tooth!! It is the bottom one. I believe this was his 9th one!! The novelty kind of wore of. We were excited for a minute and than everything went back to normal. I mean it is his 9th one =).
Ricky was super excited because the tooth fairy would be visiting him that night. She usually leaves $3. It's $3 closer to his goal of buying a laptop.

Ricky's Last Day Of School

Ricky had an awesome Kindergarten year. We were pretty worried of going from private to public. We also knew that if we had any issues with public we would put him back in private.
I have to say we were pleasantly surprised. Mrs. Narum was a great teacher. The whole Kinder staff seemed to be great and loved Ricky. Ricky excelled academically and socially. He received all "E's" on his report card for Kinder with the exception of on "s". The "s" was for class participation. He only received it because being shy he didn't raise his hand much. Which on this issue I have my own opinions.
Since Ricky was one of the strongest in class he was able to boost his confidence and help others.
On his Diagnostic Reading Inventory Results Ricky's scores were: Developed on the EOY screening 8/8; Listening Comprehnsion 6/6; EOY Reading Level J (I think Kinders are required to end at a "D" level).

This year he also finished his 1st real chapter book. The Diary of a Wimpy kid. He's reading another right now.

He only missed 1 day this entire year. It was the last semester. I'm not even sure he was really sick like he claimed. He acted fine all day and we even went out for ice cream. He was tardy 1 time the entire year. This was my fault because he was getting over being sick so I let him sleep in.

Socially he did great. As any mother you worry that your child will have no one to play with. I did especially in his case because I see him as shy. I discovered he's not so shy. He made so many friends in his class. He even had a girlfriend (which I have my opinions on, he's too young). He got a marriage proposals from this other girl. He had a girl break up with him because another girl liked him. So I must say he was popular with the girls. He also had so many guy friends. I know they played "monster" a lot at recess.

On the last day of school Mrs. Narum gave out certificates to students ( I guess students voted on what award each student gets) Ricky received Best Student. He never pulled a ticket this whole year (if your not behaving or do as your told you pull a red ticket). Ricky says he almost had to one time for not paying attention but cried so hard he got out of it. Even he knows the power of crying - hehehehehe.

                                Ricky with his "best student" certificate.

                                          Last day of school.

1st day of Kinder.  Wow look how young he looks. He's turning into such a handsome boy. 

I have a 1st grader now!! We'll see what Kohrville has in store for us this coming year. I hope it's as good as Kinder. So proud of my little guy!!!!!

I would love to put him back at Windwood for 1st grade because his transition teacher, Mrs.Hogan is teaching 1st. I credit her for teaching Ricky a lot and pushing him. That is my only gripe about his class. I feel he was never pushed.
I don't know what the academic difference is from a private to public school. I'm sure they have to be on about the same curriculum level by state. I just know that the transition class was pretty hard and Mrs. Hogan expected a lot from the 8 boys she had.
I'd love to see the 1st grad curriculum agenda for both private and public.
In the end it also boils down to parent involvement. Your child is as good as you expect from them and as a parent it's your duty to work with them and push them above their level.

Last Day Of School For Hana

Hana's last day of 3 year old pre-k was on May 26, 2011. We had to say goodbye to Mrs Petttite and Mrs. Villigrand. She had some awesome teachers. They were also able to put up with Hana's mood swings. She only received 1 oh no note. She has learned so much. It seems like she went in as a little baby and came out as a girl.

It was also sad because it was the last year with her best friend, Addison. Next year Addi will be going 3 days while Hana still 2.

I can't believe next year will be her last year of pre-k till she goes to Kindergarten. Oh my goodness, why is she growing so fast?!

                                           Hana's last day of school.

                                      Hana's 1st day of school.