She's Two

Happy Birthday to our Sweet Baby girl!  You are our pride and joy and make us laugh until our cheeks hurt!  We love you Rachie!!

Poetry and Field Day

There seems to be so much going on this time of year!  Crazy!  So, I am going to take two activities and make one post!  And it's all about Ava!

Last week Ava had her first Field Day!  So much fun.  The weather could have been a bit warmer... but the kids didn't mind!  Quite the athlete.. she come home with 2 ribbons! 

We finished the week with Poetry day in Ava's class.  The student's did a fun unit on poetry.  They learned about all kinds of different poems.  They had to get up in front of the class and parents and read one of their poems.  Such talented writers!!

Continuation

Molly is moving on to a Pre-K classroom at the same school next year.  She will be having the same teacher Ava had last year.  The teachers have said that she could do Kindergarten next year but we decided to wait one more year just like we did with Ava.  We would prefer her being the oldest in the class and not the youngest.   From my teaching experience, it was always obvious to be who the young ones of the class were!  And besides all that, we LOVE the preschool!
Thursday was her last day of school.  The teachers put on a little ceremony where they got to read a little story about what they wanted to be when they grew up.  It was the cutest thing ever!!  Each kid was called up in front of all the parents while the teacher's read.  Then they sang some end of the year songs!  After that in there was more celebrating in the classroom with cake and punch.  That was Rachel's favorite part.

Mother's Day Weekend

Ok... so I am a week late on this posting.. my apologies.  The end of the school year stuff is taking all my time!

I truly had a GREAT Mother's Day.  I am so blessed with all of my girls and a wonderful husband!  It gets better and better every year!  I got some books, chocolate, and a new necklace!  My family knows exactly what my favorites are!  We had a very low key day.  I didn't have to cook one meal!  I chose to wear my children out on Mother's Day!  We went out to breakfast  at Panera which is in the mall, and then we played at the play area.  It was such a beautful day that we got out bikes out and went for a family bike ride!  A great ride until
Ava fell off her bike and did a face-plant on the sidewalk.  I felt awful.  One of those slow motion moves where I couldn't get to her fast enough!  We were in the middle of a trail at least 2 miles from home so she had no choice but to get right back on her bike and ride home!  She still has scabs on her nose and lips.  Poor thing!  We ended the day with sushi for dinner!  YUMMY!

Writer Molly

Molly's preschool class makes these really cute books written and illustrated by the preschoolers.  Adorable.  This one happened to be about pets.  I hope you can read this because it's so funny what she wrote about Phoebe our cat!  Funny but so true!

Here is a close up of what is says...

I have a kitty named Phoebe Rose.   My Mom named her that.  She is black and white and brown.  She hugs me sometimes.  She likes to go under the refrigerator.  We bought her some new mice.  She plays with them.  She sleeps downstairs and runs around at night for a little while.  Then she goes to sleep.  My Mom takes care of the cat.  My dad doesn't like the cat very much.  Sometimes he wants a dog to eat her and my mom says NO!  The cat eats downstairs in the basement.  She likes to hunt for food and bones.  Sometimes she begs for mommy to hold her for a while.

Haircut times 3

I spent 2 1/2 hours at the hair salon getting haircuts for all my girls.  Not sure what took so long but they were great!  They each got really cute short summer cuts!  Now bring on summer...