Scheduling 3

How do you juggle the multitude of activites with 3 children? Yes, we allow our kids to participate in almost any activity they want to .. provided we think they can handle it and we can swing it all. Noah will not only be playing soccer this fall, which requires one night of practice and one Saturday morning game, he will also be playing ice hockey, roller hockey and has hebrew school. Each of these other activities is only an hour a week but they add up. Hannah will be continuting with her gymnastics as well as soccer and Sarah will have gymnastics. Luckily the timing works for everything and with a couple of car pools, this won't seem like so much but given the kids are only 3, 5, and 7 (well almost 5 and 7), I assume it will only get worse!!!

Anxiously waiting...

Noah and Hannah can't wait for soccer to start! Still over 2 1/2 weeks away, they are already out practicing with each other daily. Noah was given a list of possible sports to play this fall and soccer was consistently his top choice. I'm curious to see how it goes...he will be playing with kids his age as well as a year older (7-8 yr olds). Noah is an athlete through and through but by nature he is a reserved kid who doesn't like to be in the midst of any commotion. It will be interesting to see if he goes out on a limb and really gets involved in the jousling that happens in soccer. I will say, last year, he did not. He always hung back and in his words, played "d" when everyone else was playing "pack ball". You know what I mean, when every kid on the field runs for the ball. He does know a few kids on his team so hopefully this year they will learn to pass and really play as a team. He even has practice once a week in addition to his Saturday morning game.
And then there's Hannah....she will be making the other little kids cry. She is a tiny little girl herself but fears nothing and no one! She will most certainly be kicking for the ball regardless of who is in her way. She just loves her new cleats and shin guards. Doesn't she just look too cute? Now, who wants to wager on how many kids' parents we need to apologize to for Hannah being too aggressive. LOL :)

3 already!!!

We celebrated Sarah's birthday tonight...she doesn't turn 3 for a few more days but we wanted to have a party while her Uncle Larry was still in town. We just had the family over as well as a few close friends. Sarah's friend Sophie came as well. Sophie has basically been her friend since birth. They were born only a week apart but had been scheduled to be born on the same day by the same doctor...I ended up going into labor and having Sarah a week early. They have weekly play dates and are just the best of friends. As soon as Sophie arrived they each insisted on wearing their princess dresses..so off they went to bounce in the moonbounce with their royal attire. They had a ball! Here are a few pictures....hard to get a great shot b/c they just wouldn't stop long enough to get a good pix....must have been all of the sugar!

Club Libby Lu's

Over the weekend, my friend Robyn and I took our girls over to Club Libby Lu's for the first time. What a great time the girls had!! Aside from their begging for every item in the store, it was fabulous! They each got to pick some things to take home in their goodie bag, then each had their hair, make-up, and nails done. It was just too cute! Check out these pictures....

If you don't know what it is, Libby Lu's is a retail/kids beauty salon. They give the girls about 12 hairstyles to choose from and each get to have their make-up applied (which they then get to bring home). Hannah of course picks the only non-princessy hairstyle. She instead goes for the punk rock look --- only after me telling her she can't have the Hannah Montana style b/c I didn't spend $25 for her to go out with her hair looking exactly as it does every other day! The style totally matched her normal attitude though so in the end it just seemed too perfect. Sarah on the other hand picked a very cute princess up-do...if only I had dressed them in cute dresses like their friend Emma was wearing....oh well, maybe next time.