May Happenings

We headed to the pool for the first time last weekend.  It was still much too cold for me but the kids have been begging for three weeks and finally wore us down.  They get SO excited about pool season!

I remember not caring about the water temp when I was a kid and these two proved to be the same.  Jeff and I watched them play for hours and Jeff even jumped in for an hour too.  It was a fun first pool day :-)

Unfortunately we were rained out on Memorial Day so we didn't get to go but we still had a very eventful weekend starting with a park day and picnic on Friday......

And Presley's first dance recital on Saturday!  She was SOOOO great :-)

The kids had a sleepover Sunday night.  We pulled out the sofa sleeper and they played flashlights until after 11:00.  LOVE these kiddos!

Ava headed back to school yesterday for her last 8 days!  She had her kinder performance/end of year celebration yesterday morning. 

This school year has just flown by!  Ava has learned so much and I am so thankful that this kindergarten year was fun and exciting for her.  This girl loves to learn.  She loves to read and write and draw and she blows me away every day with new poems and 'songs' that she writes.  She randomly pulls books off the bookshelf and reads them around the house.  She had her nose in a book the entire time we were at the library on Friday, putting it down only long enough to scan it at check out. 

Jeff took a video of Ava reading The Giving Tree the other night.  It's the sweetest sound to me.  The tiny baby I read books to five years ago is now reading to me.   

 

Lately

I always forget just how busy the month of May can be!  This year is no exception with tee ball season, recital costume fittings/meetings, teacher appreciation week, end of school celebrations, etc...

I captured a little of what's been going on the last three weeks with some phone pics.

We celebrated Fine Arts night at Ava's school a couple of weeks ago.  She had a handmade necklace and a pink hot air balloon painting chosen for the show.  This is Ava's happy place for sure.  Nothing makes this girl happier than art. And her art teacher is just amazing.  Ava adores her.  I need to get a picture of them together before school is out. 

Here are a few pics of Keegan at T-ball practice one Wednesday night....

I think he enjoyed his first season :-)

Coach helped the boys put their handprint on their first ball before their last practice. 

It's so cute!

His last game was on Saturday.

And after a year of wearing Ava's soccer medals around the house, he finally got his own :)

Ava's recital costumes are in and we think they may be our favorites so far!

I try to clean/organize Ava's craft table every other week but I've given up for the most part.  She seems to find what she needs to create.  Many, many hours are spent at the this table :-)

Being that Ava's love language is arts/crafts, I received 16 sweet cards, books and pictures from her on mother's day.  And a painted flower pot.  It was a sweet day! 

Love this girl!

On the weekends she sleeps on the top bunk in Keegan's room.  I walked in one Saturday morning and found they had their house shoes lined up like this.

It still makes me smile weeks later.  I love being their Mommy.