Mother's Day

 

The kids gave me a super cute mother's day card. And a 'day at the spa' gift certificate! 

  

 

 

  

 

Last Day of Pre-K

 

Well I can hardly believe that this school year is over. Time keeps going faster and faster. Can it please slow down, just a bit.. ha! We are so proud of Cooper and what he has accomplished this year. It literally blows my mind the things they are learning in Preschool. I think in Kindergarten all we did was play games and eat snacks and learn the alphabet. No but seriously everything is so much more advanced now. Cooper loved his teachers this year. And he loved going to school everyday (half days). He made some great little friends. I can't even begin to tell all of the things that he learned. But I know he writing skills are even better. He is holding a pencil or crayon correctly when last year that was a little bit of a concern. He held if funny. I wasn't too worried, I still hold a pen incorrectly.. according to the 'proper way'. Speaking doesn't seem to be an issue anymore. He doesn't stop talking, EVER! He loves counting and making patterns. He knows a number of sights words. His coloring skills have greatly improved. He knows quite a few words in Spanish. The other day he came down the stairs in the morning and told Joe "Buenos Dias". I missed it, but I'm sure Joe about fell off the couch. He hadn't ever said that before. He will just randomly rattle of things in Spanish, numbers, colors and various words. He can even read quite a few of his books. Dr. Seuss and some others. He has grown and learned so much. He is such a good big brother! He loves his new brother Broxton and him and Gwen are becoming quite the 'partners in crime'. Anyway it was a great year and we are looking forward to the exciting journey of staring grade school..

 

 

 Getting reading to leave the house with his teachers gifts. 

 Last time going into his classroom. 

 Taking the gift to the wonderful secretary.

 And the gift to his teacher.

 I was able to pick him up from school, so I took Gwen in with me. She just loved it. They invited her in to play a game with the kids. And she really loved that!

 

 

What a fun year! Time for some summer fun with Daddy! 

Gwen 20 Months

 

Here are some stats about Gwen at 20 Months: 

*She is still quite the ham!!

*She is saying quite a few words some including: 

Hi, Bye Bye, Night night, Done, More, Baby (be-bee), 

Da-da, Ma-ma, Up, Ball

*She is running now and loves to run with Cooper and chase him around the house. 

*Some funny things she has done this month: 

She put on Cooper's underwear. All by herself, over her clothes. She makes an 'evil minion face' where she sticks out her bottom teeth (see the picture below).

*Favorite toys or things to do: 

She loves playing basketball or with any kind of ball. She really likes playing outside pushing the lawn mower or riding in the red & yellow car. 

*Firsts this month:

Sitting on the potty (nothing happened but she sat on the small potty)

*She is a girly girly. She loves shoes and putting on her bracelets. 

*New habits this month: 

*She likes a few books in her crib at nap and bedtime. Even though we read to her before both. She will sit there and look at the books and then go to sleep. Its pretty cute. Sometimes afterwards when I go up to get her. She will be sitting there with her legs crossed looking at one of the books.

 Evil Minion Face

 Serious Face

 Clown Nose (Cooper's)

 She is cutting two back molars, so she is constantly chewing on her fingers. 

 She is really into basketball right now.

 

 Sick of me taking pictures, I guess. 

Always cracking up at something.