Splash Around

Hurray the splash park is open! We love going to the spash parks at fairhaven and cornwall parks. The opening of the parks really starts the summer season for us, even though school isn't out yet.

Awana Luau

Our End of Year Leader Appreciation for Awana this year was a Hawaiian Theme. Walking into the room you were trasported into the tropics where a luau awaited you on the beach. We had a great time doing the limbo, carving spam sculptures (I guess they love spam in hawaii?), and eating from a delicious buffet that included sweet and sour chicken with rice, and mac-n-cheese with spam. Notice my girls sipping on their favorite beat the heat treat, a starbucks frap!

It's Official. Philip has graduated from Preschool. He's a big boy now. Philip loved his teacher and all his classmates. It was a nice friendly well behaved class and we know Philip will miss his friends. He is a little nervous about the next stage of life --KINDERGARTEN-- so we decided to focus on how cool it is to graduate from preschool. We got all the kids in his class these cute smiley face grad balloons. He remembered Elissa having a cool party for graduating from Highschool last year and he wanted to be cool like his big cuz. So we celebrated with some special chocolate cookies he picked out decorated with little graduation cap picks. He was happy.

Philip's Final Preschool Fieldtrip

Philip's preschool teacher has a tradition of taking the kids to her in-laws house on the bay for their last field trip. Sadie went both years that she was in her class and this year it is Philip's turn. It is the perfect spot for a group of preschoolers to explore. They have a private little beach that the kids get to play on. A tall tree that grows leaning out towards the bay holds a large bouy on a rope that swings out over the water. The kids love to ride on it. There are also great rocks to climb around on and view the tide pools. Tons of little crabs hide under rocks on the beach waiting for the kids to find them and then collect them in buckets as pets for the day. It's a great way to end the year and create a lasting memory.

Addie-tude

It's a nickname she earned early on because she was more than a little tempermental. I mean this girl knows how to "sport a 'tude"! She also knows how to melt your heart with a little smile and some sweet words. She is just constantly running at 200% and I love it-- when I'm not hating it. Luckily these days I'm loving it more often than it's driving me crazy. She's learning to tame her temper and settle things with her words and not shrill screams. At least she tries the word approach first and if that doesn't do the trick she works her way up to shrill screams... and if that still fails then watch out because her fists are flying and her teeth are chomping. But at least she's trying out some problem solving techniques. Maybe by the time she gets to kindergarten she will be an expert!

Getting Mom

Philip didn't just throw the ball back and forth with Daddy. No he had to secretly plot and plan how he could end up "accidently" hitting Mommy in the head with the ball. How could I get mad when he looked so cute doing it?

Coocoo for Carter

Carter is a goof. It's all I have to say. This boy cracks me up. He is giggly and goofy. He loves to be the clown. He is great at getting everyone wound up, breaking the tension with laughter, or distracting everyone with his silliness. Yeah, it can be frustrating, but most of the time he's just a silly little monkey that I can't help but laugh along with!