Preschool Yoga

Apparently M does yoga at school. This weekend she showed off some of her moves...

Mulch Pile

One of the projects we never got around to last year was putting mulch around the new trees. So this year we got some much....

....and started to put it around the trees...

...but M hopes we don't get through the pile too quickly :o)

Chess

How did you learn to play chess? I'm guessing it probably wasn't like this...

RIP Growing Tree 1.0

I've had a reminder on my phone for the last week to take a picture of the girls with the Growing Tree - remember the one we got as a gift for Christmas and then planted last spring as the first tree planted in the new house? Well, here's the picture:

(C being appropriately sad next to the very sad tree)

Poor tree had a rough winter (those are weeds doing great right next to it, oh well).

Alex promised me a new growing tree for mothers day - plan is to get that planted next weekend. Hopefully second time is the charm :o)

C's first Graduation

Friday was a special day for C - graduation from preschool! Much to my surprise, it's a big deal here. But so super cute I can see why.

There were speaches:

Songs:

(Thank you Norm for the videography)

and much cuteness:

Aparently the appropriate way to party after a preschool graduation is to bring in a women with lots of snakes & critters. You could have guessed this would happen:

 Perhaps not this (Alex is holding a turantual there)

And DEFINITELY not this (yes that is me holding a snake and smiling)

More zoo friends

 It was awesome this past weekend.. any guesses where we ended up Sunday?

Bet you called it. Back to the Zoo! Only this time Sadie and Jamie (or neighbors) came with.

C decided to spend some of her money on tickets for the carousel. We were one of the last groups on so got a bit scattered, but C managed to nap a friendly looking ostrich. Sadie and M were about to settle for a ride from a bench, when a really nice Dad who was on a seal next to his daughter saw us sitting, got off the seal, and convinced Sadie and M it would be fun to ride together. I don't know about fun but it sure was cute.

Not pictured, the bird show that Jamie convienced us to go see where the eagles and hawks and other birds fly RIGHT OVER YOUR HEAD. It was awful. I have no idea why everyone else seemed to be enjoying it so much ;)

1 down, 39 to go

Big night here last night... C came home from school just a touch lighter than we was before.

This week has been one big party at school since the district school year ends on Friday, so apparently they did bobbing for apples during lunch. C went in face first and came out sans tooth. She was off the wall excited.

Biggest parenting win of the whole thing, we convienced c that the tooth fairy that services our house is very shy. So shy that she's too afraid to come close to beds, so the tooth pillow (thanks nana) must be a safe distance away. C picked an awesome ledge in the hallway, which was WAY easier to access during the night then under the pillow would have been. Now to make sure the story sticks for c's 19 other teeth and m's 20 :o)


Side note: My phone had a hardware malfunction earlier in the week (aka bootloop of death) so while I do have a mostly working temp solution, feel free to email if it feels like I'm ignoring some other mode of communication (I probably didn't get it).