here are just a few things that have taken place over the past few days that I never want to forget...
Gigi may not have been the best soccer goalie during her first game, but she did have the best cheering section due to her brother!!
Gigi had her first soccer game this week and hands down...she was the cutest little player. She bounced back and forth in front of the goal, sometimes looking at the ball; most of the time looking at the sideline to see if her cheering section was watching. How did she do? Let's just say, she needs a little more, okay, A LOT more practice!!!
Later that night, Ryan and Garyn were in the bathroom getting ready for bed when Garyn looked at Ryan and said, "Dad, (with a strained face) she is terrible, I mean really bad." Ryan laughed and said "I know buddy, but we can't let her know that..." With and obvious look, Garyn responded, " I know Dad, that's why I waited to tell you."
I am proud of both of my kids!!! Gigi never quit even though she knew she was letting the other team score OVER AND OVER, Garyn NEVER stopped cheering for her and her team, and even though she wasn't the best, Garyn never let her know exactly how bad their team
really did!
LOVE IS HONEST, LOVE IS KIND!!!!!
Christian Attitudes, one proud Mama!
Over the past few weeks we have been encouraging Garyn to say hello and include a new classmate while playing on the playground. At first, he didn't understand why this was important so Ryan and I did our best to explain why it is important to try... Over the past week, I have watched Garyn say Good Morning to the new classmate, occasionally include him in morning conversation, and yesterday when he came out of school he told me that he and another classmate played football with him. He said he had fun...he was clearly proud of himself and so was I!!!!
Yesterday when I was dropping Gigi off at school one of the teachers stopped me because she said she had a story about Gigi she wanted to share. Of course knowing my little comedian, I immediately thought it would be about her and something funny she did...
The teacher told me that one of Gigi's classmates was crying and wouldn't stop (they were in line to go outside) so Gigi's got out of line, walked up to him and put her arm around him. She gave him a hug and held his hand the whole way upstairs. When they reached the top of the steps, he hugged her back and said "you made me better."
When we asked Gigi about the act of kindness, she said ever so confident (shocker) "Well Mom, I am the ONLY one who can calm him down. I just tell him that they (his parents) will always come back and he stops crying."
Well our conversations with Garyn must have paid off x2. I am very proud of my kiddos and their Christian Attitudes while at school...
His 1st "real" 100% and positive attitude
I am one proud Mama!!!! Garyn earned his 1st 'real' 100% on his spelling test!!! I can NOT say it enough...this school year has been such an easy start!!! Thanks to Garyn and his positive attitude!!! He gets up when told (never a fight!!!), he eats and has been walking to school every morning without ANY complaints, in fact, when I asked him this morning if he would rather drive, he said "no mom, I want my exercise!) He does his homework without any fight and goes to bed without complaint!!! He makes everything so easy.... (never thought I would be saying that...if any of you knew Garyn a year or two ago...)
Gigi's honesty
I made Gigi a cake to celebrate her hard work at soccer. I stayed up later than usual to make the cake and cupcakes so she could see them before she went to school. When she woke up she was all smiles when she saw her surprise. I lifted her up and she looked at both of the sweets. She said, " Mom, the cake is awesome, but that one and that one and that one (pointing to the cupcakes) need work!
Thanks for the honesty!!!!
