Dance dance

This year Grace and Merry's dance studio is turning 50 years old and the recital is "Wizard of Oz."

 Grace is going to be a flower.

Lovely flower.

She is also going to be a monkey.  Unfortunately she does not get to fly.

Merry is going to be a farm child.

 

Loving the overalls.

She is also going to be a sad winkie.  One of the slaves of the wicked witch of the west.

Happy dancing.

Eliza in May

 Eliza was following me around while I was taking pictures of the boys.  She insisted that I take her picture on the stick (aka log)  too. 

 She is an independent little soul and loves to play outside.  

While reviewing all the animal sounds the other night Brian asked her what a Donkey says, she thought a minute then said donk-donk.  

I think that is a much better noise for a donkey to make.

A lot of cupcake on her face.

Sweet, spunky Eliza.

The big one-one

 It is hard to believe that Jacob turned 11 this week.

 Some nice summer haze.

He is pretty sure he can eat the whole cake.

 

It is getting very hard to blow out the candles in one breath.

 We celebrated with a white trash slip n' slide.

A.k.a. a roll of visqueen.

We then headed to the lake for a swim and some king/queen of the float.

One happy birthday boy.

Can you tell that he got his hair cut after spending all day in the sun?

He has a side burn tan line.
We love this boy and think he is pretty great.

Adam's Preschool Graduation

Adam graduated from preschool.

He had Ms. Kathy as his teacher.

 

Mom and Adam.

 Waiting in line.

 After the graduation.

After the graduation cupcakes.

Universal Studios/ Mother's Day

Brian's work play day at Universal Studios happened to fall on Mother's day weekend.

It worked out pretty great for me as we stayed in Orlando all weekend and I didn't have to cook or clean.

 Waiting for the water taxi to take us to Universal.  The kids actually like the hotel pool better than  the rides so we rode rides in the morning and evening, then went swimming in the afternoon and at night.  There was a family of ducks that lived in the hotel pool.  Eliza was so excited to swim after the baby ducks.

 Jacob and Merry's favorite ride was the Simpson's ride.

Grace loved the Woody Wood Pecker roller coaster.

Adam liked the Men In Black ride.

I liked the new Harry Potter ride and did not like the black pudding I tried.

 Eliza like the curious George books

and the ball pit.

Mother's day on our way to church.  

It was a great weekend.

Eliza in May

 Eliza has a new found freedom, she can climb into the tree house by herself.

 That makes on happy girl, because she can go down the slide whenever she wants.

Eliza discovered a pumpkin growing in our garden, she calls it her balloon and has been checking on it daily.