Preschool

We had such a fun year with preschool! The curriculum was super cheap and so user friendly (mother goose time). The moms were so great to work with, and the kids..well just look at them, they're freak'n adoarbale!!! Can't wait til next year!!!!

Too bad Owen was gone for "picture day". Abby took these pictures the last week of school. Trying to get all of them smiling at the camera at the same time must have been some feat! There were so many "out-takes" that made me giggle. Mostly i laugh though bc daniel insisted on having kolby all gussied up in a long sleeve shirt and jeans while its 90 degrees outside and everyone else is in shorts. hee hee. The last two are definatley the best!

1 month

Tried to take some pics of Naomi last friday for her 1 month shots...

they were all out of focus, she cried and then almost scooted herself off the dresser, oops.

She looked at me as if to say,

"mom, you are so crazy and cruel, and really the worst photographer ever...guess i'll just try to suck my thumb until you give up"

p.s. my amazingly talented friend cate made her headband don't you love it!

T-ball Party

Last Tuesday we went to Kolby's T-ball pizza party. He had a dream the night before that he was going to get a trophy and that Daniel was going to lift him on his shoulders...um we may have watched a few too many sport movies:)

When they called his name to get the trophy he totally froze. Why is my child scared to death of smiling in front of his coach? I have no idea! Once he was out of the spotlight his smile came out of hiding:)

Boat Week

I am way behind on posting! Funny how one little tiny person can take up so much time:)

Last week was "boat week". It was fairly low key but still fun!

The inspiration?

Kolby's new awesome boats from Ona for his "work-in-progress" nautical room.

The art work...lovn' kolby's sailboats

Last Tuesday i googled how to make paper boats then let them play with them in the tub.

(p.s. my sweet friend Cindi did olivia's hair...isn't it awesome?!)

Wednesday we discussed how the wind pushes the sails to make the boats move...then we experimented with our own "sails" (kites obviously).

We read books about sailboats, tug boats, submarines, and cruise ships.

For our culminating activity we filled up the pool and had boat races and created our own storms:)

Naomi just chiln' and rockn' in her own boat.

Of course the pool also was used to play "diving girls" (we watched Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken this week) They pretended to jump into the pool with their horses but were careful not to hurt their eyes...hee hee.

Mia

Here's my beautiful niece on her baptism day. We love you Mia!

(as a side note my kids must have really enjoyed the baptism bc the very next day they were playing "baptism" in the pool in the backyard. Not sure if it was cute or blasphemous...it wasn't the first time they've pretended to be John the Baptist and Jesus, or Mary and Joseph, or yes even Jesus on the cross...i usually can't hide my smile and then i tell them to pretend to be someone else:)

Funny Bunny

Kolby put these two bunnies in the carseat with Naomi...her expressions make me giggle everytime!

Sisters

Let the matchy-matchy-ness begin:)