Goooooaaaallll!!!!

Dante scoring a very nicely played Goal in soccer last week. He keeps at it, taking the ball from the goalie and then kicking it in with his right leg which is his opposite foot. It wasn't his first, in fact he scored two that day, but it was the first I ever got on tape.

Dante turns Five!!!

Wow, five amazing years. Dante turned five on Thursday October 6th this year. We had cupcakes and presents for his classmates at school and then a party for the lad afterwards at my house with some of his friends from the neighborhood and school. Here's a few pix and a gallery link.

Visiting a New York Farm with the boys

Last week, I took the boys three hours north to the Catskills to experience a working farm. As you can see from the pictures, the boys and I enjoyed ourselves. We milked cows, fed calves, played with kittens, bunnies, ducks, chickens, went on a hayride and through a corn maze and more. What a great experience!

Here's More PIX

Augustus one handed riding his scooter

The kid could barely walk a few months ago, now he's cruising the playground with one hand on the steering wheel of his scooter the other clutching a dump truck. Next up - texting and driving.

Dante starts Kindergarten

Dante's first week of Kindergarten is over. His teachers Clara and David are excellent and we couldn't be happier with EVCS and the environment in the school. He has been doing great and acclimating to the new classmates and class room perfectly. Here's some pix of Dante and Augie on the way to school last Thursday, Dante in the hallway and with his teacher Clara. The class has their own blog ; http://kindergartenevcs.blogspot.com/ as well.

Augustus First words

I've been terribly remiss with this list as it pertains to our adorable little Augie but here are some of the lad's latest. This weekend was big, he actually said 'why' for the first time. He's also starting to combine words so we are hearing things like help me and 'go mommy house'.
Sat Apr 2 knock knock, car, Dante asked me his first knock knock joke on the way back from car shopping.
Thu Jun 9 help
Thu Jun 16 how are you? I asked " Good" he said!
" out " when trying to get out the crib
Tue Jun 21 " open" yesterday he said "go, hold, light, house "
Fri Jun 24 "Diego" his favorite person these days
June 25 'Way' I had no idea what this meant for a while till it became clear that he was saying "Go this way"
July 1 'Milk' Baba used to be good enough for his bottle, now he's getting specific about what he wants in it.
July 8 'hot dog'
July 9 'Share', 'Digger' and the big one - 'Why' when we were telling him he had to let go of something
July 10 'Help me' when he was trying to get on the bed "Put" as he pointed when requesting that I place his soccer ball in his little stroller
July 13 'fast boat' slow boat' which is cool cause he is differentiating between how fast things are going

Dante graduates EVCS pre-K

Our little man is graduating Pre-K in a few days. Yesterday the whole school had a graduation ceremony and Dante got up with his class and teachers Georga and Kofi and another class and sang a song.

Thanksgiving through New Years, Washington, TX, London, Paris, Israel, NY, TX, NY.

We covered alot o' ground over the holidays. Some of the pix from the trip.

Thanksgiving through New Years 2010

Augustus's first music class

I think that by this age in Dante's life we had already completed two or three music classes. I guess it's the second child syndrome, but I'm determined that we put an end to the deprivation Augustus has had to undergo! Hence I took him to music class today which the munchkin seemed to enjoy a great deal. Wednesday we go to our first storytime!