It's Autumn Time

Ms. Martha's Pumpkin Patch

Ms. Martha works at Mallory's preschool. She lives out in Crestwood and has a pretty big back yard that has a pumpkin patch, straw bails and a horse. The preschool took a field trip (another field trip!) to her house on Friday for some fun fall festivities. When we got there we took a hay ride all around the neighborhood. The kids sat on bails of straw and ate their lunches and then we all went around from station to station playing some fun games. I think the kids liked sliding down the rolled up straw the best. Oh, and they loved feeding the horse apples. At the end they all got to go out to the pumpkin patch and pick their own pumpkin. It's events like this that make me love the Fall in Kentucky.

Cross Country

Boston is on the cross country team again this Fall at Kenwood Elementary. I am so impressed by the activities they offer at the elementary school. So different than when I was a kid. His team enters about 7 meets for the season - some as far away as Lexington and Bardstown. He couldn't run in the first race, the Rumble Through the Jungle at Creasy Mahan, because we were walking in the Diabetes Walk. Then, the race at Bardstown, the Hillbilly Run, was on a day that I was out of town and Zane had the kids by himself and had 2 baseball games and 2 birthday parties to get them to. But, he did race in a event last week at Crestwood Elementary. It was a mile long and that is the shortest track. He and his friend, Andrew Mortenson, ran great. He has another race this week and it's exciting to see him run. I get tired just watching him and he is so relieved and happy when he finishes.

Fall Baseball - The Ups and The Downs

This is Gage's first time playing baseball and he is digging every moment of it. He is on the blue team and is playing in the rookie machine pitch league. That means that he gets 5 pitches from the machine and if he doesn't hit one, they bring out the tee. His team named themselves the Tigers. During his game last Tuesday, I ran Mallory to the snack bar. When I was walking back, a lady ran up to me asking if I was Gage's mom. I had things running through my head that had to do with low blood sugar. But, then I saw him in the duggout with a big bag of ice on his lip and I felt so bad for the little guy. The sun was setting while he was playing first base. A player threw it to him and he couldn't see with the sun in his eyes, so the ball hit him straight in the face - the upper lip to be exact. When it was his team's turn to bat again, the coach was going to skip him because of his injury and Gage said, (sounding a bit funny from a fat lip) "I still want to bat." And, he did.


Boston is playing baseball for the 6th or 7th time. He is on the red team. I think he has been on a red team 4 times. Makes it easy to find the right color baseball socks in the drawer!! He plays on a team wiht a few friends, including Sam O'Brien. In the Fall league, it's more of a practice, training period. They get to play all positions and it's a great time to play. Since this is the first time he has played kid pitch, it's been nice to let him get used to all the wild pitches. His first time up, he was hit in the back with a pitch. Good to get that over with in the beginning! He has even had a chance to pitch himself which I think he really enjoyed. He did great for his first time and through a few strikes. He threw many pitches that were in there which the other players were able to hit. It's been a great Fall at the ball park.

Walking to Find a Cure

September 11th, the day of the JDRF Walk, was jam packed on the calendar. But, that morning we went as a family to Churchill Downs to walk with hundreds of people to find a cure for diabetes. It was a cloudy and breezy day, but the rain held off. We started in the infield and walked around the infield and then continues on the perimeter of the grandstand. We finished back in the infield where we ate Pizza Hut pizza and hot dogs. Always a good way to spend time as a family and help a very worthy cause.

First Day of Preschool For Mallory

Westport Road Bible Preschool won our hearts here at the Underwood Home. Mallory had a hard time leaving last year each day that we dropped off Gage. On Tuesday, September 7th, it was her turn to go. Her teacher is Ms. Kim and she has two of her friends from church in her class, Josh and Davis. For the first day, she was the only girl, but on the second day of school, they added another little girl, so now there are 7 kids in her class. Perfect size and great fun. So far, so good.

Happy 6th Gage

The day after his first day of kindergarten, Gage celebrated his sixth birthday. Grandma Julie was here and since she had never been to Five Guys Burgers and it's one of Gage's favorites, we went there for dinner. He also chose a Baskin Robbins ice cream cake and since he wanted one with strawberry or bubble gum ice cream, he had to settle on a scoop of bubble gum ice cream after we bought him his cake that had cookies and cream ice cream in it! He was just happy to blow out the candles and open his gifts. Trevor bought him two Tom and Jerry dvds. Boston bought him Crayola 3D Color Explosion book while Zane and I gave him

First Day of School

Three in school. There are many FIRSTS that come with this school year -

• First Day of school for Gage
  


• First Day of middle school for Trevor



• New teacher for Boston - Ms. Allen

I have had a bit of worry as I have tried to prepare Gage, the school and myself for his first day of kindergarten. He was so ready though and I know that he is in good hands. His teacher is Ms. Hollinden and she is such a sweet lady. He has a teacher's aid in his class, Ms. Julie, who helps him every day test his blood sugar and assits with all the other things that go along with is diabetes.

Kindergarten is such a long day. This is what Gage looked like on the Sunday after his first 3 days of school. Wiped out with the dvd still playing!