Our Random Update

Nothing too exciting going on this week. Preston started Soccer Shots at his school. It’s an eight week program for an hour on Tuesdays for the kids to learn the fundamentals of the game. Preston loves to run so I figured this would be a great activity for him. Also, the selfish part of me wants to see if he loves the game before devoting on day a week for practice and my entire weekend at a soccer field. Let’s see if he likes it first. So far, he does. Here is a picture of Pres taking after his Aunt Tinka with faces in a picture. He is depicting the baseball on his shirt:

What is the obsession with Phineas and Ferb? Preston just adores this show on Disney XD. The sad thing is you find yourself as an adult watching the show. You cannot help it. I have caught my father on numerous occasions. I totally think he has added it to his “Series” on his DVR box.

And this is just a picture of my handsome little dude:

Last year seeds from a plant that was in our front garden that did not grow, must have gotten into the soil, chilled out while Virginia got 100 inches of snow and this summer has grown like wildfire. This past week honey bees have been working like mad to gather honey from the flowers. Yet as soon as the sun goes down, the bees fall asleep-right on the flowers! It’s hysterical!

A colony of wasps has also moved in and I have seen some wounded honey bees on the ground. My mother and I have decided we are not getting involved in that war.

Today, Preston and I made harvest inspired cupcakes. I was speaking to Marrah this morning and she was going to make cupcakes with Finn. I mocked her telling her my cupcakes would be a lot cooler than her cupcakes. (Mature, I know). Here are our pics-challenge me if you dare Mar!

And to prove Pres was smitten with his finished product:

Our home is progressing along. My townhouse is the second one in. You can see that they are bumping out the kitchen on the second floor. So exciting!

Lastly, I have been trying to wrap my head around the fact Preston is going to be five. His latest milestone was the booster seat. I remember the milestone of him progressing at six to seven months into the carseat. Here is Preston circa fall 2006 on our car ride home from Richmond (the first time I took my parents down to look). He was such a beautiful baby.