Aiden's Soccer

Today was Aiden's first soccer lesson. He has done this a little before at the YMCA in Ohio. He got 2 lessons there and remembers alot from it. He already knew NOT to use hands, how to dribble, kick a goal and also how to stop the ball with your foot. He even got to demonstate how to properly stop a ball :) He did great and I think he will really enjoy this. Austin was trying to get into the action as well. Although he did not get to play much soccer, we did let him run with the "team" at the end around the field. He had a HUGE smile on his face the whole time and really enjoyed himself as well.

Kids Day

Today was "Kids Day" in Korea and the base celebrated with a little festival for the kids. The CYS hosted the festival and it was at the Elementary School here on base. It was fairly crowded but not as bad as I thought it would be. It was nice having it at the school because they had the playground to play on along with the booths set up for the event. Sadly, it was not a nice day outside so we were only able to stay for about an hour or so. It has been beautiful weather for the past few weeks and I was upset to see of all days for it to rain, it did it today as the kids were having SO much fun. They had food stands set up, several "carnival" type games as well as the famous jumperoo and the dunk tank. They had balloons, face painting and several other things as well. Best of all it was ALL free!!!!! That is the great thing here on base is they provide festivals throughout the year and most of it is free. I believe the food did cost but not very much and we did not eat there. Aiden had so much fun doing the dunk tank. I felt bad for the guy in there as it was chilly today and he was visibly cold. Anyways, the kids got three tries and Aiden did it twice. The first set of throws he did really well. The second throw hit the bulls eye dead on and he threw it hard enough to make it dunk but it did not. The guy even thought he was going down because he got the "fear" look on his face and even held his nose. Aiden was a little disappointed it did not work but he got back in line and tried again. The second set of balls he did not get as close. He always was in the right area but never hit it again. I felt bad he did not get him with his "good throw" as he should have. He took it with pride though and the guy in the tank told him he did a great job and almost got him :) Enjoy the pictures below and the next scheduled festival here on base is on Josh's b-day!!!!

Aiden's 1st day of school

Today was Aiden's first day of preschool. He was very excited to go and did very well on his first day. He said that in the beginning right after I left he got sad but the teacher told him I would be back soon and he said that made him happy :) The preschool here is very nice and I think he will have a great year and learn lots of things. He goes 3 days a week now and next year will most likely begin kindergarden....I can not believe how big the kids are getting. Austin misses Aiden as he has asked about him 3 times and Aiden has only been gone for 2 hrs....lol Next year will be Austin's turn to start preschool and I think he is ready as he did not want to leave Aiden's classroom today :)

Yard work & toads

Today Josh and the boys worked in the front yard to try to get it looking more like a garden and less like a forrest. The bugs are SO bad in the yard that we are hoping that not only will it look better but that this will help cut down on getting so many bug bites!!!! We bought the boys their own working gloves and garden tools to help and they did such a good job. The highlight of their work was finding LOTS of toads hiding out in the overgrown ferns we were removing. When I was washing the outside of the windows, I would hear a rustling noise in the garden and could not find out what it was. Well, now I know....toads and lots of them. Needless to say once I came across them I decided to watch and not help :) Anyways, below are some of the pictures I took today. I wish I would have had a movie camera as Austin was so funny with the toads. When they would find one, he would get real excited and start screaming and laughing every time they jumped. Aiden is really good at cathing them and holding them so Austin could check them out. You would see the toad hopping down the sidewalk and Aiden trying to catch it as Austin jumps behind him screaming and laughing!!!! Too cute!!!!! Anyways, below is also a picture of a big toad Josh found. Aiden said it must be the "daddy toad" so I got a picture. We still have alot of work to do out front as it is a mess so I am sure there will be more pictures to come!!!!