Baptism Weekend

Jake's flag football team

 I managed to catch the final shot of the air hockey championship.  Can you tell by the faces in the picture who won?  Hahaha!

The men in the house spent a lot of time napping...

 ...while the women entertained the kids.  Typical.

This weekend, my parents and Mary Ann came to town to celebrate Anderson's baptism with us.  Mary Ann didn't get in until Saturday afternoon, so she managed to escape these candids. :)

Saturday was a pretty dreary day.  Jake was supposed to have a flag football game, but it was cold and raining and the game got cancelled.  He still had pictures, though, so all the kids stuck around and decided to play the game anyways.  I was so glad they did that so that my dad and Tyson could see Jake play since they haven't yet.  I think they were both pretty entertained by Jake's game. :)

Kindergarten Homework

 Math Fluency cards: these are simple addition and subtraction problems that Jake has to have memorized and will be timed on without being able to use counters (i.e. no fingers!)

 Dolch site words: these are about 20-25 site words that he has to have memorized every week (sometimes they get 2 weeks for these).

 Vocabulary words: he has 10 words a week that he gets tested on.  The words (and definitions) are absolutely ridiculous sometimes, but I do what I'm told. ;)

 Timed Reading

 Writing prompt.

 Math homework for tonight.  

 Page 2 of math homework.

And lastly, 20 minutes of reading a day.  I prefer the books on the left, which are scholastic books sight words and phonics.  I find that they are a little easier to read for Jake so he doesn't get frustrated...there are usually only 1 or 2 words per page that he needs help with and the words they use are very repetitive, which helps him learn them.  Not to mention, the easy to read books on the right are considered "baby books" by Jake's standards.

I just had to document Jake's Kindergarten homework because I know one day I'll look back at this and laugh thinking of all the times I said, "He has soooooo much homework!" Hahaha!  Honestly, we spend about an hour a day doing homework...and he's in KINDERGARTEN!  It blows my mind!  I can't imagine what it's going to be like when all 3 are older and doing homework....and much more difficult homework at that.  

Is it just me or does this seem like a lot?  Tyson and I were talking the other day about what we remember from Kindergarten, and I said I remember learning my letters.  Well, these days, not only are you expected to know your letters by Kindergarten, but you're expected to know how to write them and how they are pronounced.  It's craziness.  Then again, Jake learned to read a lot earlier than I did and definitely a lot earlier than Tyson did.  Hahaha!

Wrapping Up Recruiting

 This is how we spent part of our Sunday afternoon...playing Mario Kart. Oh how we've missed Tyson! :)

 This is right before Anderson spit up all over Jake.  Hahaha!

 Fingers in the mouth...always.

 This is the look that Jake gets when he talks to Anderson.

Every time we're out in public with Tyson, all we hear is how much Anderson looks like Tyson.  Jake and Walker always say, "it's because they're bald."  Hahaha! 

Tomorrow is National Signing Day!  Woo hoo!! Good bye hubby traveling all week long, recruiting weekends, and constant cell phone usage and HELLO hubby time!  This has to have been the longest season of MY LIFE!  And it's finally OVER!!!!!!!!

Roly Poly

Ok, so I'm struggling for blog posts lately.  We're going on week 3 of only seeing Tyson for a few hours each week, and this mama is fading fast.  Signing Day is next Wednesday, though- it can't get here fast enough!

Our big excitement for the week is that Anderson started rolling over from his back to his stomach!  I'm thinking my baby boy might have a lazy side to him, though, because the only time he'll do it is if I walk out of sight and he rolls to be able to see me.  If there is a toy near him that he could probably roll to get, he'll just sit there and fuss until someone hands it to him.  Hahaha!  The big boys and I are such enablers and hand him the toys right over.

Football, Fish, and Fingers

Jake had his 2nd game this past weekend.  Here he is running the ball.

 He had a good little run before being pushed out of bounds.

 

 We also got a fish this weekend.  The boys really wanted a snake, but I talked them into the fish instead.

 I've caught this cutie trying to suck his thumb lately; I'm trying really hard to push the paci instead.  Been there, done that with thumb sucking (i.e. Jake). ;)

 This is Anderson catching me taking pictures of him...

 OMG, I could just eat him up.

Jake's First Flag Football Game

His first "tackle"...and it was a girl!  Hahaha! But at least he forced the fumble.

I love Ryan's death stare here.  Ha!

Jake kept referring to this kid as "the big kid."

Jake was so proud that he took the flags from "the big kid."

Can you tell?

I love his intensity.

You can't get the flags every time. ;)

Sean and Walker.  Such a mess these two.

It's a dog pile...

...and Jake comes up with the flags.

Stealing the flags off of our friend, Colton.

Gettin' the game plan from Coach Dave.

Jake Summers, Center?

Jake (#2) misses the flags here, but you gotta give the kid some credit for effort.

Yesterday was Jake's first flag football game.  I'll be honest, I was worried all week long that he'd be ejected from this game for tackling.  It's not that we practice tackling at home or anything, Tyson said it just comes natural for Jake. Hahaha!  I'm not sure about that, but it seems like even when he goes to pull a flag, he always ends up bringing the kid down anyways.  He's just rough like that.  But y'all, this kid is REALLY good on defense.  He didn't get a chance to run the ball at this game because the ref called the game early (it was REALLY cold for these Florida kids), but I have a feeling he'll be good at that, too.  I might be a little biased, though. ;)  And so begins Jake's football career. :)

Football for Life

Jake started practice for flag football last week, so we took it to the front yard this past weekend for a little extra practice.  As soon as our neighbors saw us out there, they quickly joined in.  Well, let me rephrase that, as soon as our neighbors' mama saw us out there with me having to play center, she told her boys to go help Mrs. Beth out.  Haha!  I love my Team Summers. :)