May 30 - Minefair

One of Luke's Christmas presents was a pair of tickets to Minefair, a Minecraft convention. JD was planning to take Luke but since he was out of town, I had the honor. Luke was super excited. I got a baby sitter to watch Jillian and we headed to NRG. They had several stages with bloggers giving presentations, a virtual reality experience, robotics, computer games set up and a huge store with Minecraft memorabilia. Luke decided to do the virtual reality experience so after waiting in line for awhile (over 1 hour), it was his turn. He LOVED it!! He also did a robotics area, checked out some bloggers and convinced me to buy him a creeper blanket. We had a really good time!

Virtual Reality

Last weekend we went to a bridal shower for one of Julia's swim coaches

And last but not least...my little blondie :)

May 29 - Orcas

May means.....Orca summer swim is upon us! Luke is practicing 4 days a week with the Orcas while Julia is doing 2 days with Aquastar and 2 days with Orcas. Coach Natasa LOVES Jillian and snuggles with her during practice and even at the practice meet. The practice meet was last weekend and both kids did great. Only 2.5 days of school left, I can't believe summer break is almost upon us!!

Luke

Coach Natasha loves Jillian

May 23 - Skydiving and Swimming

One of Julia's Christmas presents was trip to I-Fly with one friend. I-Fly is an indoor skydiving facility on the northwest side of Houston. We finally found a free weekend and the girls went a few weeks ago. They loved it! After watching an orientation video, the girls put on their suits and went into the wind tunnel. They had an absolute blast!! They had a total of 4 min "skydiving" (two 2min sessions) with an instructor and they loved it. I'm already being asked when they can go again. They also take kids as young as 3 so Luke wants to try it too. 

Last weekend, our USA Swim team, Aquastar, hosted it's first long course meet of the season. While Julia has been practicing 2-3 days a week, she hasn't done any meets since early February. We weren't planning on any long course meets (long course means the swim in a 50M pool) but I signed her up for this one since it was our team's event. On Friday, Jen (Kennedy's mom) picked her up and took the girls to the pool. I headed there a few hours later once Jillian and Luke were home. She swam a 200IM on Friday as well as the 100 free. She was very nervous about the IM but she did great! We spent all day Saturday at the pool, she did 5 events, 50 free, 50 back, 50 breast, 50 fly and 100 back. Since this was her first time swimming long course, these were all technically "best times" and out of 78 Aquastar swimmers, she was named one of the swimmers of the meet! Great job Jules!!

Julia and Kennedy

May 21 - Sisterly Love

sisterly love

Happy May everyone! Our house has been a construction zone the last several weeks (I'll do a different post on home renovations when it's all done) so I've been super disorganized and behind on everything recently. I'm sorry for the lack of blog posts. We've had an action packed month so I'll try to do a few updates this week to catch everyone up. 

JD
JD has been a traveling machine this month. He was in Denver 2 weeks ago, Seattle last week and now he's in Australia this week. I fly to Florida next week and have 2 trips to Phoenix and another trip to Florida in the next few weeks too. Crazy travel schedules!

Julia
Julia had her state 'STAAR' test last week and she's happy that its over. She also applied to be part of our elementary school's "Character Crew" and she was offered a spot on the crew. Congratulations Julia!! As part of the character crew, they have all sorts of jobs including helping pre-K students with computers, helping with the car line (in both the mornings and afternoons) and being a goodwill ambassador for the school. We are so proud of her. May is the last month of diving for the year and while that is winding down, swimming is ramping up. She's in fantastic shape and having a lot of fun with her friends. 

Luke
Luke is very excited for school to end and has been counting down for weeks. We have a Hawaiian themed end of year party this Friday and he's super excited. Orcas started last week so I withdrew him from Aquastar and he's focusing on summer league. He decided he wanted to cut off his curls so he's rocking a buzz cut again. 

Jillian
Jillian is one active little toddler. She loves to eat, run and climb on everything! She's also been stripping completely naked when she naps at Rachel's. Rachel will put her down in her pack-n-play fully clothed and when she goes to pick her up, her clothes and diaper are in one corner. She hasn't done it at home so we'll see if this continues LOL. When she wants to go outside, she brings her shoes to us and says "shoes." She says more words every day, she knows 'dog, mom, dada, Lu (for Luke), JuJuu (for Julia), Melia (for Amelia), Hannah, yum yums, some of her ABC's and a few numbers. If you ask her how old she is she will hold up 1 finger.

Her favorite thing to do is get into my toiletries drawer in the bathroom and go through my deodorant, etc. She's always on the move! She reminds me of a mix of Julia (the activity) and Luke (the climbing). She definitely keeps us on our toes!

Amelia
I am very worried about Amelia. She has been drinking copious amounts of water the last few weeks and then throwing it up. I'm scheduling an appointment this week to see what's going on. Googling her symptoms is making me very nervous, so I'm keep everyone posted.