- Xandria's graduation from Kindergarten. May 22. Had a circus program and then did awards and diplomas. She was a horse in the circus. She loves horses and her best friend at school, Olivia, was also a horse. She got an award for attendance and recieved her diploma. When the kids are called up to recieve their diplomas, along with their name being said, they mention what the kids said they want to be when they grow up...Xandria said "vetrinarian". I know I spelled that wrong. Loved watching her up onstage, she smiled the whole night :) After it was over, they had a reception for the kids and families in the gym. There was a long table set up for the graduates to sit at and eat ice cream and some other treat they were given. Guess who sat at the table until ALL her dessert was finished?? Yep, Xandria. The other kids were long gone!
- Xavier's last day of school. May 23. He went for 2 1/2 hours and they recieved their awards, yearbooks, report cards and SAT results. He recieved an award for attendance and for getting a high number of 100's on his bible tests. I will have to check the number. His grades were great and his SAT's were awesome. He scored above average in every catergory and tested in quite higher grade levels than he is in. Especially in the reading and comprehension. He got Post High School scores in those!!
- After Xavier came home from his last day of school, my aunt and uncle came over to watch the boys while Nick and I took Toots to Chicago to go to the American Girl Doll Store! She had the option to either have a graduation party (like Xavier did) or spend the day with just mom and dad going somewhere special. She choose the latter. She was SO EXCITED!! She picked out a red head with blue eyes doll and got a couple outfits, sleeping bag for the doll and a hair care kit. She even bought an outfit with some of the money she recieved for graduating. We also went to the Hershey store...LOVE their huge cupcakes...YUM!! Of course we decided to leave Chicago just before 5pm...on the friday of Memorial Day weekend, to head to a Lonestar to eat that Nick found on the GPS. BAD IDEA!! It was only 15 miles away, but took us close to 2 HOURS!! So, we FINALLY get there only to realize it was CLOSED DOWN!! Nice. So, he looked up an Outback and that wasn't too far away...though it still took a little longer than it should of. We made it home around 10 and I was beat!!
- 4 Month doctor check up. May 30. Gained 5 freaking pounds!! Ugh. Add that to the 12 I hadn't lost from Daxton plus the around 4 pounds I had already gained so far. Bleh!! And I thought I had done so well....yea, wrong! I swear I don't know who's body I have, but it's not mine!! Anyway, measurements are right on :) We listened to the baby's heartbeat and she said it was a "strong heartbeat" and that was great :) That's the important stuff...not how big my butt continues to get ;) I have been feeling the baby move for a little while, so that's always an exciting and amazing thing!! Go back in 3 weeks for the ultrasound...really looking forward to that!! Can not believe how fast this pregnancy continues to go!
- Daxton turned 9 MONTHS on May 21. Had his new pics taken yesterday with Heather.
- This past saturday May 31 we decided to go back to Chicago to spend the day at Navy Pier. Decided it would be a lovely idea to take a bike tour at 7pm. Despite the fact that I hadn't ridden a bike since before Xavier was born...I would have to ride the bike with 20+ pound Daxton a seat behind me. Nick was supposed to get a quad so the other kids and him could all ride together. That didn't work out, so Xavier and Xandria each had a bike to ride, Nick had the one with baby on the back (I couldn't balance with him...mainly because the damn seat was so high and I could't even reach the ground) and I got the little bit lower bike with Drake's 40 pounds in the trailer behind me. Yea. So there were 4-5 other people in our group and the tour guide. Our first stop was Millenium Park from Navy Pier. No one informed me that would entail riding over a bridge. I'm not so good with bridges, being that I'm afraid of heights...but I MADE IT! Of course we were just a bit behind everyone else. Xandria was having an issue, not quite sure what it was. We get to Millenium park and the tour guide decides we need to put Daxton in the trailer with Drake, since he had fallen asleep. I was given a shorter and more comfortable bike, but now Xandria would be riding attached to my bike. So, we were off. Again. Yea...except that when I went to go Xandria started freaking out! I guess her part of the bike would start to tip when I would go, so she was thinking she was going to fall over. So we didn't get very far. Our tour guide must of noticed we were missing and came to look for us. We explained the problem and told him we wouldn't be continuing the tour. Wow, was my head pounding by this time!! We went explained the situation again to the people who gave us our new set up and they gave Xandria back the bike she was orginally riding and unhooked the extra bike from my seat. They said we could ride down to see Buckingham Fountain by ourselves if we still wanted to do that. So we did. And it was nice. We stayed there for a bit, then rode back to Navy Pier. It was beautiful out there that night and we just enjoyed the ride. We left to go home just before 10 pm. I was SO READY to be home and in bed!!! My head was killing me and I was so exhausted!!! We will rent bikes there again I'm sure, just not doing the tour. It's too hard with kids. We did have a great day though, besides the drama :)
- We finished moving Xandria and Xavier's rooms around. Xandria's new room is painted a light purple and Xavier's room is...well...it's still pink and purple stripes. Oops. Hopefully it will get painted the green he picked out soon and shelves need to be put in his closet as well.
That's my BIG, HUGE post for now. Going to take Mr. Daxton outside with the other kids to enjoy the weather. P.S. Besides crawling for a couple weeks, he's now mastered sitting himself up.
I will add pictures of all our events soon.
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