The Roadman Family Blog
Andrew and I were hanging out on couch reading yesterday after I had worked all day. Out of the blue he turns to me, looks me in eye and says, “I missed you” and gave me a big hug. 🙂
I got lots of kisses and hugs from my girl this morning who is not huge on giving those so I think she missed me too!
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Andrew has been obsessed with balls and sports since he was a baby. His first birthday was a sports theme party so it must have started before 12 months. All day he runs from playing some baseball, to basketball to throwing the football to hitting with his golf clubs to throwing the frisbee. He initiates this all by himself and is happy playing all by himself.
This weekend when we were out of town he was over the moon because my brother had a frisbee and football in his backyard. He spend practically the entire trip playing football and frisbee with whoever would play with him. My brothers, my dad and Sophie’s boyfriend took turns. We even brought a football to the graduation ceremony! It was outside so Andrew was able to play during the ceremony.
I have him signed up for Tball and will sign him up for soccer again. He is so excited!
I found him a basketball outfit at the Goodwill in Walla Walla. He loves it and wanted to put it on immediately!
Here’s our little jock:
Just ran 4 miles in rain. I am training for a 1/2 in November. We’ll see if I can make it to 13. Now I am wrapped in fleece after hot shower, eating hot steel cut oats with soy milk, brown sugar and raisins in a quiet house. Preschool day. Life is good
I had a wonderful day with the kids yesterday. Wednesdays are our free day where the day is ours, no scheduled events. We went to the pool with friends. Very fun. The kids are swimming like fish. I’m amazed at how much progress they made yesterday from 2 weeks ago. Abigail started really “swimming ” on her own a few weeks ago. Yesterday she started diving in and then immediately swimming once she was in. And she learned to flip from front to back while swimming. She also started swimming on her back about 6 feet at a time. Andrew got better at torpedos. He kept saying he learned this from his swim teacher Sara at the Y. I guess the $30 I paid for lessons was worth it! So a torpedo for a 2 year old is where you sit on side of pool and dive in, push off wall, swim, turn and swim back. He got better yesterday at “diving”, really pushing off wall on his own and got better at swimming with his arms. He started to swim on his own to wall underwater maybe a 1/2 foot. This coming from a little boy who has always been grouchy about the water! We’ve turned a corner! Yay! So proud of my little guys!
Last night we had a nice dinner with Ben- yummy Thai food. Andrew had pad kee Mao, his favorite. Andrew napped from 6 to almost 8 yesterday. We had dinner at 8 pm, his bedtime usually! He is on the college kid’s schedule!
And he went to bed at 11!
This morning we had a delicious breakfast at Maple Counter. Andrew got a bear pancake. We also got an apple pancake that was kind of like apple clafouti. It was yummy!
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Andrew and I are in Walla Walla. My baby brothers graduated today!
It has been a fun trip, Andrew loves being the only kid! Saturday we went to Starbucks with Sophie and Derek then went to golf course. Andrew had a great time hitting balls at the driving range
This morning we had breakfast at a Mediterranean restaurant, I had a wrap with scrambled eggs, lettuce and feta . Yum!
I had to leave restaurant for a bit due to Andrew meltdown about not having shorts on. The joys of two year olds:)
He has been a trooper the whole trip, we had a 6 hour drive to get here, didn’t arrive til midnight. He had to pee in grass on side of the road for the first time on way here. What a big boy! He traveled very well
Graduation was today. It was outside, sunny and gorgeous. The author of Fast Food Nation spoke. The campus is really pretty. We did lots of photos after, went to a gathering at the Chemistry building with Ben. Then we went to bookstore and took Seb for late lunch, got some yummy Mexican food. Now we are taking a much needed nap!
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The kids watched wall-e the other night and loved it. After the movie Abby sat and drew picture of Eve:
View from deck! Incredible weather:)
A lot of milestones this week-
Andrew has potty trained himself very quickly – I think it took 2 days!
And Abigail is swimming like a fish. I had her swim to me about 100 times this morning at the pool and after that she just started to really get it. She stopped reaching for the bottom with her toe and really kept afloat and swam! Nothing is cuter than watching her swim through the water. What a big girl!
So proud of my little guys!
We are having a spell of gorgeous weather, we just had a 3 hour picnic with friends at the park. So fun being outside soaking up all that sun. We ended the outing with Popsicles! Now I have two kiddos konked out in their car seats!
Just when I thought when we were done with being sick Andrew wakes up with pink eye. For the past two weeks Abby has had pink eye, Andrew has had an Ear infection , they both have had hand foot mouth ( an awful version with every symptom possible), a cold, and Abby has a cough!
I hope they are better for school Tuesday.
On a another note the weather has been gorgeous. We have been enjoying it thoroughly. Here are the kids at the garden
Abby is obsessed with Aladdin . She knows all the songs, dances to them constantly. She has a stuffed tiger who eats at the table with her named Raja. It is hilarious !
Andrew gets into it with her, they are always dancing to the songs together. He is very into the sports still especially baseball and basketball. He is constantly hitting the ball with the bat or shooting hoops. He can dribble and makes the ball in pretty much every time at the kid sized hoop.
Abigail has been doing ballet all year and some tap. Abigail is very into crowns and head pieces. She loves to dress herself- she comes up with some wild combos. She loves to wear her headbands like this-
They have both been swimming.
This summer they will do soccer.
That is the current interests for now
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