Random December

Nap on the floor...









Christmas decorations and nativities....
playing with shoes and a friend's dog...










Peacemaker of the month award (like student of the month, but they can pick lots of people)



Cub scout trip to the local tv studio.

Preschool for Carter

Carter started preschool... they get to do all kinds of of things like play in sand/rice/playdoh (no, not at the same time)









work on letters,

















read books,















lay around on the floor (or dance to songs, this one is about a fish)














and run around like crazies!

And Then Came....

Parents left,













Jovey's still cute...















Coryn started 1st grade











boys like building stuff at Lowes









And Carter likes crazy hats.

End of May...

Look ma! I tried to break my leg! yeah, he jumped off a friend's bed and landed funny on it, was pretty sad for two days especially during the x-rays, and ended up with a precautionary cast for 10 days. Thankfully, he got to keep it off after further review with more x-rays. As you can see though, it didn't slow him down after the first little bit.



Coryn got his 'graduation' from preschool, do a little dance!













We visited Williamsburg to see some colonial stuff before we left for Amish country, we happened to go over the memorial day weekend which meant that we got in free! Go us.

Obviously, the kids favorite part was getting put in the stocks.










Like I said, the cast didn't slow this boy down, he still went about being a crazy boy, trying to beat a tree with a stick and all...






So yeah, Williamsburg has some cool historic buildings, people dressed in costume, and some pretty fancy interior decorating...








like this wallpaper, must be gold or something right? nope... you'll never guess, its pressed leather. thats right, wallpaper out of fancy pressed leather. I would never have thought to put cowhide on my walls unless I had been a native american in a teepee or something like that.

Birthday Time!

Coryn got to celebrate all day long on his birthday... starting with donuts for breakfast at the cabins. Followed by a party at school where he had pizza and cupcakes, and he got to sit at the end of the table with his best friends sitting next to him.

Here are his teachers.

Presents from school were opened afterward, he's hamming it up Japanese style.

Then he got to play in the bouncy while we waited for people to show up to the non-school party. It was a perfect day for it too... rain in the morning, brief sun, rain in the afternoon, cleared up just in time for the water to mostly dry and stay partly cloudy the rest of the evening.

This was the immediate favorite for all, playschool medical helicoptor.

Preschool

first day of preschool!

Its a montessori type school called Santa Monica International and they have a branch in Florida. They are good too, not just a glorified preschool they have classes, teach languages, karate (ballet and yoga too), letters and numbers, and a variety of other programs.

I think Carter is enjoying it too, he gets one on one time with me and I'm a little less crazy I think...

here's the kids getting back from a field trip (which happened to be the second day of school for Coryn)
He was really tired... it was at the aquarium, an hour at least bus ride and lots of walking on a hot hot day, I'd be tired too :)