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This kid can READ!!!  He is currently reading chapter books at a  grade 5 level.  I am super proud of him and amazed at the words he can read.

This is where I found him the other morning.  Reading a book.

Tony and I took the boys to the Maryland Institute of Music for their grand  opening.

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Gary, Carol, Sean, Jess and the girls met us up there to watch Bob’s band play.  It was a fun day. The food was good and they had 3-4 bands that played through out the day.

For a while now, Garret had been talking about playing the electric guitar like Uncle Bobby and Cousin Nicholas, sssoooo while there, the owner Rik had his son, Justin, give G a quick lesson and he LOVED IT!!  Garret was very patient and dedicated to getting that lesson this past weekend.  With a little help from me, we filled out paperwork, signed him up and then he (on his own) continually followed up with the owner until it finally happened!  The look on his face when the son walked over to get him was priceless!!!  It was about a 10 min intro lesson, but he came out knowing his chords.

 

I love it.  It is our house in the winter.  🙂

We had a great trip to PG’s.  Mom had never been there, so it was nice to see her spend some time with PG and Patti.  She enjoyed herself and we played A LOT of Yhatzee.

This past Saturday was our yearly family reunion.  We had such a great time and I think they kids had a BLAST!  Love that they are making memories with their cousins.  I to this day can still remember our family reunions in Ohio.  They were always so much fun and I can always remember the games that we would play each year and the Chinese Fire Drill our cousin Vickie would let us do each time we pulled into the driveway.  🙂

 

The boys and I visited Jen’s parents dairy farm about a month ago.  We went swimming  in their pool and BTW the boys started swimming in the deep end without their swimmies!!  🙂  I was very proud.  They even went down the slide and off the diving board without them and swam the whole length of the pool.  I think watching Jayda and KK do it, boosted their confidence.

Afterwards, we saw all the calves, which liked to suck on B and G’s fingers (gross!) and visited all the cats that live on the farm in the “cat house”…LOL!

HA!  I found this the other day for the boys to use in the pool.  It is really cool.

He wants to play all the time and has even asked to play chess.

I feel so bad for her.  Losing JP has confused her more and every time I see her I wonder what exactly she is thinking.