The Chronicles: May 2011

Miscellaneous photo ops from May 2011

 



Sweet Chase



Compliments of Loca



Backyard Play

Taking a break for the moment

   

As usual, going in opposite directions...

Gymtykes Recital

Gymtykes teaches sports skills and some basic gymnastics.
The kids had a routine at the end of the year to show us all they learned.
They were very cute!

Setup for the Gymnastics portion

Tate and Aila

Tate got a ribbon ... go Tater!

 

Chase is growing so fast, I take a million pictures to try to catch every moment!

Another day of Backyard Play
Hangin' in the backyard with Dad...

 

 

Sweaty Tate!

The Chronicles: Aidan's Birthday Party

Though Tate's best friend moved away in March, Aidan was able to come back to Atlanta and celebrate his 4th birthday.  There were water guns, slides, and cake!
We all had a great time!

water gun war!

Aidan is serious about this game

Chase trying to figure out the whole water gun thing



Help!

Stick-em Up!

Aidan sharing a snack with Chase

Tate's only slide down the little-kid slide

Chase really enjoyed exploring the slide...

 

  

The Chronicles: Miscellaneous April

April was busy at the beginning (Tate's birthday) and the end (Easter) but pretty calm in between.  Here are a few favorites from April...


Chase riding his tractor (thanks, Grumps!)

Super Storcs!

Cowboy Chase.

Chase loves to wear hats!

The Chronicles: March 2011

March was relatively quiet around here...just busy growing and learning!
Tate moved up to Pre-School 2, and reminded me every day:  "Mommy, I'm in Pre-School 2 now!".  It was a great transition...they really focus on being a big kid in PS2, since they're getting ready for Pre-K.  He eats better, dresses himself, and doesn't cry or whine when he's dropped off...thanks to Ms. Jolly's stars-for-treasure program!

Tate at Monkey Joe's for Andrew B's birthday...

Chase discovering that he, too, loves a Moe's burrito

Chase loves shoes.  From an early age, he would bring you the correct pairs of shoes, and bring them to the right person (pretty impressive at Thanksgiving with another 3 adults in the house for a week!).  Now he can tell you he wants to go outside or for a ride, but before that, he would just bring you your shoes!

This is Tate's most impressive creation to date.  He laid every piece of track himself, and even built and placed the buildings.  I didn't help him even a little.  I am very impressed with my little man...likely to follow in the Storc tradition as an engineer...

Picture Day!

Here is a sneak peak at the boys before we went to school for picture day.
As you can see, Chase is all "whatever, I'm cool" and Tate is all "I don't wanna...".

Tate's attitude did not improve when we got to school. We didn't even get to Tate's classroom though before they said the boys could go ahead and take their pictures. Wouldn't you know when we get there, Tate is all smiles and hams it up and Chase looks around like "What are you people doing? Don't you have other things to do than stand around and watch me get my picture taken?"

Overall, I think the pictures will be great. The photographer they're using this year was really good with them.

Only the final product will tell...

The Chronicles: Halloween 2010

This year, Tate chose to be a Monster. He requested to be a Green Monster, but non-specific monsters were hard to find, so he settled for blue.

And he was quite pleased with the outfit, as you can see here...

He wore the Blue Monster at the Fall Festival at school, but refused to wear the hood. Upon inspection seems he grew enough in the few weeks since purchase that putting the hood on was nearly impossible and definitely uncomfortable. But he powered through.

Then on Halloween, as we're dressing to go Trick or Treating, Tate refuses to put on the outfit at all. So, we go back to last year's Cowboy (for which I purposely bought components that would fit for awhile).

So here's our Cowboy and Duck. I have video, too, I'll try to load those soon.

The Chronicles: September 2010