sharing a bed

Koen and Kace share a bed for the first time ever and it is going really well except that Kace tends to wake up earlier than Koen every morning and wake him up so we are working on teaching him how to leave the room quietly!!!

Off to church

trying not to be too sweaty by the time we get there (we are borrowing our friends vehicle that doesn't have AC) but we are hoping to buy one this week that does have AC! Kelly is excited about that as he has had to wear dress shirts, pants, and shoes to work every day and he says his blood is way too thick for that!

Kace's 4th B-day

We celebrated Kace's birthday on the friday where we went to the turtle farm with our friends the DuChene's. We got to walk around and look at (some of them we could hold) all kinds of turtles that were all different sizes. There was also an aquarium that had sharks and other large fish as well as huge wild iguana's everywhere. we came back to our place where we had supper and cake together afterwards. Happy 4th Birthday Kace! We are so proud of you and thankful for you!

First day of school

Koen is in Kindergarten and Kace is in Pre-K and they both go to school from 8am-3pm m-f. This has been an adjustment for all of us but they really seem to be enjoying it- making new friends, learning lots of new stuff and fortunately they do have the option of taking a nap in the middle of the day if they need it (we have been encouraging Kace to do that but when he has all these people around him who he can talk to it makes it a difficult decision!) Kace was excited to have "door duty" for the week and he did a great job of holding the door for everyone (although he did have a hard time being last). They both leave their classrooms for PE and Music and are coming home with new songs every week. I will have them do a post to give you all an update from their perspective soon.

watching waves crash on the iron shore

family picture

a walk along the water before bed

into the water...

the boys swim almost every day and can't seem to get enough of it! koen can swim the length of the pool now without any flotation device and kace is the jumping king (but doesn't want to take his water wings off in the deep end yet)! the pool is just out our back door and is a refreshing place to go when we get home from school sweaty and covered in sand (because the playgrounds at school all have sand! it has been between 32-38 degrees Celsius every day with periodic rain showers.