Spring in Atlanta

Well - the pollen is here.  We do not have a lovely coat of yellow over everything yet - but we are all feeling it in special ways.  Jacob and Layne had headaches yesterday, Joshua and I are stuffy and sinusy (I think Grandma is, too), and Matthew is a sneeze monster.

We had a slight freeze last night but not sure it will help very much. 

Obviously we are staying busy.

Layne will start soccer practices this week with her first practice this Friday.  She finished basketball this past weekend.  No rest in between for her.

Jacob will continue swim.  We have had quite a few issues being able to schedule swim classes with him at the YMCA and finding the right class.  So, when they wanted to change us again this session and I couldn't switch, they offered us private lessons.  I am sure you can imagine Jacob's excitement - not!  So he starts private lessons today for this session and hopefully we can get him in the next Fish class for next session.  They made it clear that this was a one time offer to have private lessons at the group rate.

Joshua is still playing baseball.  He has a hard time concentrating on the field.  But, you know, baseball can be kind of boring, especially at this age.  So I think he is about where he is expected to be at this point.  He needs some more practice throwing - he thinks a little too hard about the throw.  But he loves batting.  He even hit the ball from a pitch last week - not using the tee.  His first game is this Saturday.  His team name is the Braves.  Will be somewhat difficult for this group to cheer for the Braves, but we will keep it in perspective.

Layne and Jacob took the course Created by God this past weekend through our church which was led by one of the pastors who is primarily a therapist in the counseling center.  The instructor was wonderful.  The kids learned quite a bit.  I asked Layne to tell me something they learned and she said they learned "a lot of big words".  I asked her to tell me 2 words they learned and the 2 she offered were Circumcision and Erection.  Yep - they learned a lot!  We were told to be ready for lots of questions after they take this course - so far no questions.  Jacob's comment was that he wasn't ready to know all that stuff yet.  But, we told him we were sure quite a few of his friends were talking at school and we thought he needed to know the "right stuff" from our point of view.  He agreed somewhat reluctantly.

So we are hanging in there - stuffy noses, sneezing, watery eyes and all.