Preschool Graduation

Last Thursday Ben's school had an end of school year 'graduation' celebration for the kids. It was very cute. They had a hot dog dinner for the families and had a slideshow of pictures from the year. Then the kids did the Pledge of Allegiance and sang the Phonics Dance. All the kids got a little certificate and present. Ben was so excited for his graduation he could barely sit still that day but was of course stoneface during the entire ceremony. I'm sure the teachers had a wonderful day with all those excited kids!  

We did not have good seats for seeing Ben during the performance, but you can barely see the top of his head in the center of this picture. He is one of the taller kids in his class. 

And there's the stoneface while he waits for his name to be called for his certificate and present. 

That looks - cracks me up!

Just Nick

Look At Him Go!

Ben is really starting to get good at riding his bike now. He can start up on his own, brake (finally), get off without dumping his bike and ride quite fast. He loves riding in the circle and then up and around on the side walk and back onto the street. 

The Spring Flowers After a Rain

I was having fun playing with my macro filters

May Showers Bring...DIRT!

I don't really feel like this post needs any explaining.

And don't think Monster is exempt - she's usually the muddiest of them all!

See How Our Garden Grows!

The boys are keeping a watchful eye on the garden. Adam kept the carrots from last year in and they are perfect now! If Nick could reach them, I'm afraid he would pull them straight out of the ground and eat one whenever he got hungry! He loves the fresh carrots.

A Mother's Day Walk at the Park

On Mother's Day we headed to Providence Dam for a walk in the park. We got to see the mules and the canal boat. The boys were fascinated with the mules. We had perfect timing and got to see them swing the canal boat around to head back to the dock. It was pretty cool. The uncool part - the 8 mosquito bites I got! No one else had any. Apparently mosquito's don't understand you are supposed to be nice to moms on mothers day!