We've been absent for the past few weeks. Here are some highlights - not always in order.
We sold one to buy the other. We miss the Santa Fe (great car), but even with just the two kids (their car seats and everything else), we decided it was time for more room. We really like it (Sienna) and it will come in handy with the family visitors that are coming into town the next few weeks! We appreciate the relatively good deals on Toyotas right now.
Abby has taken up floral design--and most of it includes dandelions. She is welcome to pick as many dandelions as she'd like. We love that flower season is here!
Abby is taking a community ed dance class. She really enjoys it and we look forward to her little recital next week.
Hope's 5th birthday was on May 14th! A few days later we went to a cemetery for a picnic. It was very nice. It's a beautiful old cemetery. The food was good and the company was perfect. When I asked Abby how we should decorate the cupcakes she said she wanted trees. We made them in ice cream cones (trunks) with green frosting and fruit snacks on top--nothing fancy, but the kids liked them. (In the background of the first and last pictures you can see our new car.)
Briton is starting to enjoy reading more--especially when it is the creepy, crawly bug book and when he is sitting in the rocking chair.
We bought a zoo pass for our local zoo. It is a small zoo, but a perfect size for our kiddos. This is the only picture I took that day. Abby was feeding the llamas (actual llama food). Moments after this was taken, Briton dropped a little bottle of hand sanitizer in the llama enclosure. Great. I had just gotten done looking at their display of x-rays of animals that had swallowed things negligent visitors had allowed to get into the enclosure. We immediately started looking for someone to retrieve our sanitizer and save the poor llamas. (Not too concerned about the sanitizer, more about the llamas.) Abby shed many tears over this, but all turned out well with us and the llamas. I turned this into a lesson on problem solving. We had a problem. How are we going to solve it? For a couple days, Abby went around telling people about the "problem" we had at the zoo.
Thank goodness for good weather. We get to be outside a lot. The kids love it! And they thoroughly wear themselves (and me) out.
