Preschool skating and Olympics Day

I've been meaning to post about some preschool events that Will has had. First, he learned to roller skate! One day a week for February and part of March, they got to spend about 30 minutes in the gym roller skating. He LOVED it. And it turned out he was good at. However, at first, this momma was NOT excited about him roller skating. Will has, after all, broken 2 legs in his 5 years of life, and turning him loose to learn to roller skate was not my idea of safety first. I was so worried about it, in fact, that I chickened out and just couldn't go watch for the first few times. I felt moderately bad about this, but knew that my fear was noticeable and I did not want Will to be scared to skate just because I was so worried about it. This was one time when I knew he'd be better without me at first. After a few times, I went to watch, and he was really good on the skates. He didn't fall at all (it helps that the skates were tightened up a lot so they weren't rolling super fast) and had a ball with his friends.

Will and his buddy, Regan.

Check out that superhero pose Will's doing! He did that every time he got ready to "take off" on his skates!

Will with his buddies Regan (far left), Troy and Dawson from his preschool class.

Also, at the end of March, the preschool had Olympics day following a week long unit learning about the Olympic Games. There is an opening ceremony with the passing of the torch and carrying in of the flags. This year, they asked Will to be one of the flag-bearers and he was so excited to have a special job to do! After the opening ceremonies, the kids went around the gym doing different "Olympic games" like limbo, walking on stilts, bean bag toss, etc. At the end, everyone got a medal. It was a fun morning!

They each made life-sized drawings of themselves and decorated them. Will gave himself green hair!

Will (holding the American flag) getting ready for his flag duties.

He was really proud of getting to walk it in and present the flag!
Now...let the games begin!!!!!

Limbo!

Bean bag toss!

Egg walk

Horse races! :-)

Potato sack races

Will and Troy waiting for a game to start. They are super close buddies and as Wes said after watching them at Olympics Day...they act almost like brothers they are so close!

Stilts! Will really likes these!

Ring toss

My Olympian!!!!

Camping at Rocky Springs

Several weeks ago (end of March), we decided to take the boys on a short camping trip just to get away and have some quiet family time. This was also Owen's first camping trip (Wes and Will are old pros). We packed up and headed down the Natchez Trace to Rocky Springs. If you've never been there, it's a GREAT place both to camp or just take a day trip. There is the old town site of Rocky Springs, an old church, plenty of walking trails and of course, the creek and waterfall. The campsite is great too. We got there Saturday afternoon and set up camp before heading down to the creek. Playing in the creek was definitely the highlight of the boys trip. It was actually a somewhat cool day, depending on the breeze, and so I didn't even take swim suits...thinking we would just wade in the creek at the most. Well, Wes and I waded, but Will and Owen went all in. They played and played until they finally started to get chilly and ready to head back and make dinner. We made hot dogs and smores over the camp fire and had a really good time. They boys stayed up late chatting in the tent, and then around midnight we got some good rain. Wes had put up our rain fly, so we stayed dry in the tent, but our chairs and campsite got wet! The next day was a lot cooler (about 60 degrees) b/c of the rain and clouds, so we let the boys ride their scooters around and walked some trails before heading for home just before lunch. It was a great trip and very successful camping adventure with a two-year old!! Can't wait to do it again!

goofing off with the camera so Wes could set up camp in peace!

Headed straight to the creek. Will is my OCD child to hates to get wet and dirty. He started off wading like this...

Then we saw him get his running start...

And he is apparently no longer worried about getting wet and dirty. YEAH!

Owen has never been concerned with getting wet or dirty...

He prefers to play that way...

If he could do this every day of his life, he'd be in heaven.

Eating yummy camp treats.

I love all 4 of our chairs around the camp fire. SO cute!

Two handsome fellas...

Their personalities definitely shine through in this picture!!!

Will was a great big brother, teaching Owen everything he knew about camping.