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Lovely Walks

We go on an awful lot of walks around here and we all love it!  We are so lucky to have a beautiful creek in our neighborhood to walk along and enjoy all of nature's beauty.  We love the wildflowers, the frogs, the birds, the squirrels, the 2 ducks, and the bugs!  Here are some pictures from a recent walk.

 

 Lily loves to try to swing on these willow trees!

 Here is one of the ducks who moved in at the creek.  I think he was mad at us for disturbing him, he was chasing us!

 Our creek, I love it!

If you look in the middle of the picture, you can see an orange/yellow bird.  It is such a pretty bird and I love seeing it!

Summer time

School has been out for a week and we are in full swing of summer vacation.  Today I asked the kids what things they want to do this summer.  Lily had a one word answer, swim.  That is all she wants to do.  She LOVES playing in the water.  Skyler, of course, had much more on his list.  My disclaimer, I am not making any of this up!

1.  Watch movies all day long. (not likely going to happen).
2.  Play on the computer, ipod, and wii.
3.  Look for toys to play with.  (I do not know what this means, nor do I think I want to!)
4.  Play with Gavin.
5.  Sleep in.  (Yes, would you please do that!)
6.  Not get sick.  (Another one that I agree with!)
7.  Go out to eat.
8.  Count money.  (Huh?)
9.  Play school.  (Seems normal to me, we always did this).
10.  Play with Lily.  (Nice to see you included your sister).
11.  Build something with Legos that no one else has ever built.
12.  Go to the library.  (Nice, I like that on).

Skyler also made a daily schedule for me for the summer.  You can see he wants to keeps us busy!

Here is what it says:
1.  Do something fun.
2.  Reading.
3.  PE or art.
4.  Spelling.
5.  Math.
6.  Recess.
7.  Lunch.
8.  Story time or read by self.
9.  Science.
10.  Movie, or wii.
11. Play basketball.
12.  Computer lab, ipod, or Leapfrog.
13.  Computer or movie.
14.  Stop school.

Okay, here are the things we actually have planned:
1.  Summer school.  I will not lie about this.  I am very excited that they will both be in all day summer school this year.  I don't know what I will do, but I know that I will be able to run during the day, which means I will actually get to SLEEP IN!  It will just be nice to have a little time off!
2.  Vacation to the Smokeys.
3.  VBS
4.  Art camp for Skyler.
5.  Bellevue Fire Department Kids' Safety Camp.
6.  Skating.
7.  Bowling.
8.  Swimming.
9.  Splash parking.
10.  Library reading program.
11.  Riding bikes.
12.  Taking walks.
13.  Zoo trips.
14.  Complete the Go! Play Adventure.
15.  Whatever else I can think of to keep these monkeys busy.

So, hopefully both Lily and Skyler's expectations will be met and we will have a great summer!

Lily Graduates From Preschool

Lily graduated from preschool and I love that the school made it such an event.  They even had caps and gowns!  Here are some the songs they performed for us.

She was so proud of herself for graduating and we had so much fun celebrating with her!  We got her a real nice and tasty Sweet and Salty cake from Jones Brothers' Cupcakes and she got flowers from her grandma and a nice graduation stuffed dog.

She was so excited for kindergarten a while back and now she that she is ready, she's not so sure about it.  A few days after her graduation as I was putting her to bed, she started crying.  I asked her what was the matter and she told me that she was scared to go to kindergarten at Skyler's school because it is so big and that there are so many big kids there.  I felt so bad for here.  She was genuinely scared!  I told her that there is nothing to be scared about.  I reminded her that she already knows a lot of people at Peter Sarpy and she will do just fine there.  I also told her to talk to Skyler and tell him that she is scared to go to school there and ask him to tell her what it is like there.  She finally calmed down.  Now we just have to wait a little over a week and she can give it a try and see how she likes it while she is in summer school there.  My guess, the only one crying will be me :)

Skyler's music program

Skyler's music program was quite a treat!  The 1st and 2nd graders put on quite a show for us.  Here are a few clips of the excitement.

Lily is 5!

Lily just could not wait to turn 5.  She thought so many things in her life would change once she turned 5, turned out, she was wrong.  She thought she her loose tooth would get looser and fall out, nope.  She thought she would get to go to kindergarten right when she turned 5, nope.  Even though those things did not happen, she still had a great time turning 5.  She had her very first birthday party!  We aren't big on birthday parties in our house and when our kids turn 5 is when they get their first big party.

Lily celebrated hers at Skate City.  She had so much fun skating and getting to play the arcade games, which we never play any other time when we are there.

She also had her birthday dinner at Grandma Biben's.   What is great about birthdays at grandma's is that the birthday person gets to pick out the menu.  All Lily cared about was having green chips (lime tortilla chips) and queso and lemon cake that had lemon drops on it!  She got it!  But we also had cowboy steak and veggies, you know, to round things out!

She got great gifts and was so excited to turn 5.  The next day, she wanted to know how long it would be before she turned 6!  Oh, to be young again!

St. Patrick's Day 2011

We had so much fun again this year celebrating St. Patrick's Day.  We worked very hard on our leprechaun trap, but again, it did not work.  We saw the evidence of the fact that the leprechaun got caught it the trap, but he was able to get out and then he punished us for our trickery!  He turned our milk green, turned our toilet water green and left green spots all over the toilet paper!  Skyler's solution to this is to make more than one trap next year.  We will have to see if that will work.  And now that I am done with school (hopefully I passed my exam!) I sure hope I will have more time to blog, we'll have to see!