I decided since my hiatus caused a disruption in posting all the big things that happened this past year, I wanted to post a "review" to highlight some things from 2012.
Most of my friends and family already know, I retired from the Air Force medically in Jan 2011. Since then I've pretty much been a stay at home Mom, enjoying my days with my son Kenton. That year FLEW by. That took me to 2012, which has been a bitter sweet year.
In Spring of 2012 my daughter graduated high school! I can't believe it - already? My heart shattered, yet soared with pride at the same time! She was very happy to be done with high school and is ready to move on.
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| My beautiful daughter with her diploma. |
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| She was just glowing that day. |
In Fall of 2012 my son started Kindergarten! Another "I can't believe it - already?" moment for me. Kenton has really enjoyed Kindergarten so far. He loves riding the bus to and from school. I think his favorite thing might be "show & tell" each week.
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| With big sis on first day of school. |
Here is Kenton with Kristina on his first day of school. If I had been thinking properly I would've used a better camera to capture the moment. He was very excited to go to big boy school that day!
I was really impressed with his school. They had a Back-to-School Picnic a few days before school started to welcome everyone back and to orientate new students. He got to meet his teacher, see his classroom and school, play on the playground, meet new friends, and they served hamburgers, hot dogs, salad, cookies, brownies, sodas, juice, and water - all at NO cost to the families. It really set the "positive" tone for him!
The next thing they impressed me with was for parents of Kindergarteners. They had a Tears & Cheers event the morning of the first day of school in the cafeteria. These parents could meet up, and have coffee and cookies and share their joys and sorrows for a couple hours as their "babies" started school for the first time. They never had anything like that when my daughter started Kindergarten.
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| Cell phone didn't take such a good pic here. |
Kenton is learning Spanish this year in school as he was selected for the Spanish immersion program at his school. This is done by a lottery system and he was quite lucky to be selected. There is something so adorable in hearing him say his Spanish words!
Maybe it's because I'm older, maybe it's just because they are different children, but Kenton is so much more excited about school than Kristina was at that age. I feel sometimes like I'm living vicariously through him. His enthusiasm and excitement is contagious and endearing!
Kenton turned 5 years old in July. It seems time really is flying by. He wanted a round cake that looked like a piece of candy this year, so that's what he got. For the first time, he was able to blow all his own candles out. It's been quite the year of firsts for him.
Just a few days after his birthday passed he lost his first tooth! It scared him at first, because he thought "the sugar bugs hadn't gotten it", but once I clarified it for him, he was super excited to see what the tooth fairy would bring him! Then a couple weeks later he lost his second tooth! That one didn't scare him - he was anxious for the tooth fairy to come again!
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Kenton loses his first tooth!
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This summer was also a bit of a sad time for the family and Kyle left for training in Mississippii. He is supposed to be there until the end of March of 2013. This was not a good time for that to happen, because we found out that we were expecting another baby in March 21, 2013 in July and this would mean Kyle would miss everything. The entire pregnancy and the delivery. He did however get to see the baby on ultrasound and hear the heartbeat before he left though! After all we've been through with pregnancy losses and complications, it looks like this baby is going to make it just fine. As of writing this, I am a little over four months along. We still don't know if it's going to be a boy or a girl yet though.
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| 3 Different ultrasounds, about 4 weeks, 8 weeks, and 12 weeks along. |
We are looking forward to Halloween this year. Kenton wanted to be a scary ghost. So we got him a costume that fits the bill. He is very excited to put it on and go trick-or-treating this year. We also painted pumpkins for the season, rather than carving and he LOVED that!
He now asks me if we can paint them more because he loved it so much. I'm thinking I'm going to have to get some more pumpkins for him to paint.
Hear are some pictures of him painting his scary pumpkin with a spider, bats, and polka dots!
All in all 2012 has been a FAST moving year with lots of firsts! I wish I had been better about keeping this blog up to capture all of them, but hopefully this post captures some of the good moments!
Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed this 2012 recap to date.
