Friends

These aren’t that great of pictures- I took them with my phone and doesn't take good pictures at all! But I snapped these Sunday night, we went to Mazzio’s after church with Ryan, Erica, Carson, Livy and Parker! Livy and Stratton are about 3 months apart (she’s older)and Parker and Arden are about 6 months apart (he’s older). Erica is one of my sweetest friends and we love spending time with their family!! Stratton follows their oldest son, Carson (who is 7) around like a little lost puppy. He thinks Carson is the coolest!! We have always tried to get Stratton and Livy to play together, but just recently they have really taken a liking to each other! After church Livy will come up to him and say “Stratton, come chase me!!” and off they go! It’s too cute. I hope they will be good friends as they grow up. And if it just so happens to lead to more. . .well that would be alright with me!! Are arranged marriages totally obsolete these days?? I’m thinking we could have a 2 for one deal. . .

Arden (6 months) & Parker (12 months)

I have a similar picture of Stratton and Livy at this age.

And here they are today!

Stratton & Livy ~ Sweet Friends!

New Adventures

PRE-K

Yesterday afternoon was Pre-K registration at Valley View! I can’t believe we are getting Stratton ready for Pre-K already?! He did so good! He was excited about his “Big, New School”. They did an evaluation on him while Jarrod and I did some paperwork and they told us he did really good. Turns out we still lack ONE shot. Apparently, the some of the vaccines that are in the “combo” shots they get when they are babies have valid dates. He got one 5 days before he actually turned 6 months, so the hepatitis part it’s not considered valid because he wasn’t 6 months yet. UGH!!! So, we now have to go to the health department to get it because the doctors office don’t keep single doses of hepatitis vaccines in their offices. I didn’t get all that information till yesterday. It just so happened that one of the nurses from the doctors office was at registration with her son the same time we were, and she was the one that gave Stratton his shots last week, so when she got back to the clinic she figured it all out and called me about it! I am so glad she was there to help- this is confusing!! So we have to get the last shot done pretty soon and get the paperwork to the Pre-K office and we will be all set!

I was going to take a picture of Stratton in front of the school, but it was raining and SO cold! So that didn’t happen. Since he was so good, afterwards I took him to get ice-cream. He chose blue raspberry sherbet- of course the darkest messiest kind possible.By the time he was done he looked like a smurf.  He had it everywhere!

Crazy Boy!!

T-BALL

Last night was also our first Tball meeting.

Jarrod is coaching Stratton’s team! The Pirates! Here’s how that happened. . .when he signed Stratton up he offered to be an assistant coach if they needed. Then last week he got a call that there were too many kids and not enough head coaches, so he was moved to coach! They had a coaches meeting last week and Jarrod got some of our friends kids on his team! Yay! And one of them is Livy! I hope it will be a good experience and they will have fun. The meeting went really well, almost all the parents showed up! Wow! And Jarrod had a couple of guys offer to help (thank goodness!). We have our first practice on Tuesday and first game on April 15th.

This is not a good picture, but as we were going home I look back and Stratton is wearing his Pirates cap- too cute!