Blessings

I feel like lately, we have been incredibly blessed in our home. I have wanted so bad to enroll the kids in some sort of "mommy and me" classes for a while. In our home, the price tag was just a little too high to enroll both boys in a class at the same time, so therefore we had kind of decided that it would be something to save up for.

This spring, we had decided that it was time for us to do something. So we decided on soccer. We figured this would give us a chance to do something on a Saturday to get out of the house and get some energy out. While it is a little pricey, I knew it would be a lot of fun for the boys. Well we sign up for it and then a week later, I find out that thanks to CMOMs and their scholarship program, they have paid the majority of our fees for soccer. Wow. I was so happy to know that we would be able to really afford to do this!

I know what you are thinking.....soccer for 2 year olds??? How does that work??? Well it is more of a parent/child class. And no, we don't play actual soccer games. We play games like red light/green light, we build towers out of cones and then practice kicking them over, they blow bubbles and the kids have to kick or stomp on them, the do obstacle courses, and of course they break out the soccer balls and the kids just score as many goals as they can. By the end of the class, the boys are exhausted and so are mommy and daddy! :) And who can resist all of these little kids in these HUGE soccer jerseys?

You can tell by the last picture just how tired Parker can get! :) And this was only 10am!

And who would have known, soon after we found out that we would get the opportunity to join another Mommy and Me type class!! This time it was Union County Music Together. What an awesome program!!

http://www.ucmusictogether.com/. The first week, the boys didn't really know what was going on. For the most part, they ran around and every once in a while came to sit with me while I sang along. Since that first class, we have really come a long way though. Last week, both boys even came to sit with me and clap along with the songs. Their favorite part is the instruments. It's so much fun seeing the kids trying to figure out what to do with all of them. With the class, you receive a song book and 2 cds to take home. The boys love to listen to the cds while we are playing downstairs and in the car when we are driving all over town. We did have a moment the other day when I knew that Music Together was really starting to make sense to the boys. I went to get Parker up from his nap when he began singing "Hewo everybody...see you....Hewo Mommy....so see you!" (translated as Hello everybody, so glad to see you and Hello to Mommy, so glad to see you too). And its just icing on the cake that a lot of the people that are in our music together class, are all friends from Union County Mommies!

Like I said before, we have had A LOT to be grateful for lately! Without such amazing people in our lives, we wouldn't have been able to give these opportunities for our boys. And now that I have seen just how amazing these things have been for our family, we can now save for the future so that we can do these again!