It's been a little or shall I say a long while since I've updated. I'm not going to sit here and make excuses I just didn't do it! The kids have been enjoying their summer so far. Lexi has been doing a program at the city park called Arts in the park. She gets to go 3 times a week for two hours and play water games and do crafts. Her friend Emma signed up with her also so they have been having fun together. Addie and Ellie are in a neighborhood playschool group 1 day a week on Wednesdays and they are also having lots of fun doing that.
We are getting really really excited for our trip to the Oregon coast and the Redwoods! We are going with Matt's brothers family. We are leaving on Thurdsay and I really wish the house was clean and the car was all packed and we could just hop in the car and go... but in the real world it just doesn't work that way.
Here are some pics from the past couple of months....
My baby Harrison is now almost 19 mos. old and well it just really really stinks that they grow up so quickly. He is so cute and so much fun . Even though he is ALWAYS looking for some cupboard to open or slightly obsessed with dragging my vacuum and brooms around and down my stairs. I really like this age and I'm really enjoying watching him learn and grow. I'm really trying to slow down and soak in everything because it goes by so quickly and before you know it they are starting kindergarten . He is starting to get really shy and sad around strangers. He is a total momma's boy and I'm totally ok with this. I love his little snuggles and kisses he gives before bed. I love my sweet little red headed boy! Here are a few recent pics of Harrison.
Our little Ellie turned 4 in June. She had a little party with the neighborhood play school kids. She was just happy that her little friend Carson came. She really likes my friend's little boy Carson and is ALWAYS talking about him and how she is going to marry him when he gets home from his mission. She drives her sister crazy talking about him :)
Here are some pics of her birthday..
Lexi's class had been studying about the rain forest most of the school year. Seriously, I think this child knows more about the rain forest than me :). Each year her teacher picks a subject and they learn about it and do a huge project/display at the end of the year. Usually the display is the library but her teacher had to do it on a smaller scale this year because of health reasons so they just did their display in the class room. They turned their class room into a rain forest. They made all of the items in the class room. The children were the tour guides. Lexi was our tour guide and had a visor, name tag and binoculars. She took us around and taught us about the rain forest. She did a very good job and Matt and I were surprised how much she had learned and knew about the rain forest. I guess they rotated all the class rooms at the school and the students were the tour guides. Lexi was really sad that she isn't going to have her as a teacher anymore. She loved her! She said on the last day her teacher read them a story about the last day of school and Mrs. Porter started crying and all the kids did too. I also think Lexi was a little sad about leaving some of her friends that she has made from her class but they have kept in touch and played with each other this summer so that has made her happy. Here are some pics of the rain forest.
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