Fun Day at the Ballpark

This year instead of selling stuff for our softball fundraiser, we had a family fun day!  Luckily we had a make up game that morning and right after we got to do some fun activities - spray painted hair, tattoos, face painting, cotton candy - The girls were in heaven!

A little at bat time

And now time for fun!!

Field Day

We got home from Ohio just in time for Field Day and some heat!!  The children had tons of activities for field Day such as 25 and 50 yard dash, football throwing, seed spitting, obstacle course, tug of war...all kinds of great competitions.  They did each event in groups of 3 so that all the children could earn a ribbon - 1st, 2nd or 3rd.  Being the sweet innocent babies they are - most of them wanted ribbons in each color not caring what they meant!!  Gracie was excited with a 1st place ribbon though in a couple events though : )

Sweet Kindergartners at the end of the day.

Ohio

The girls and I headed out for Ohio with mom the end of our spring break week.  The 1st thing we had to plan for was ridiculously cold weather - highs in the upper 40's for end of April/1st of May.  We got there on Thursday to find Grandma had what we thought was an allergic reaction - lots of hives, swelling.  Grandma got sick and got put in the hospital on Saturday while we were there with some heart trouble.  While it was not the vacation we were expecting we still had some good photo moments for us and some fun times.  We stayed a few extra days to make sure she would be ok and that Grandpa was not alone.

Thursday night birthday party for MeMe

 With Grandma

Going to get feathers in the girls hair with Aunt Mary Beth

 Mallary's feather

 Gracie's - They were so excited!!

 Mallary LOVED snuggling with JJ this visit. 

 We caught her like this several times during the week

The girls getting ice cream.  

 

Uncle Bill introduced them to Shirley Temples one night at dinner.

A definite hit!

 Playing outside

The Chicks and a Chick Sleepover

The 1st thing they told the kindergartners at orientation was that in the spring they would have baby chicks.  My Gracie talked about this all year long.  If there was one thing that she cared most about was seeing these eggs and baby chicks hatching from them.   Finally it was time.  The eggs and incubators arrived in the classroom and the waiting and watching began.  What a surprise when we came in on Monday morning and they were in the process of hatching.  We loved it.  It was so exciting.  Even more exciting is that we found out that one night the chicks got to come home with us and spend the night.  We learned that they chirped alot and pooped alot  - ha! 

CWS Spring Program

Tonight was Mallary's night to shine.  She is our only preschooler right now so we made tonight just about her.  She wanted to get extra pretty so we curled her hair and painted her nails and toenails.  She looked so cute!  This year they had Tie Dyed Shirts and the theme was "All you need is Love".  She sang Skinamarinky and I Love a Rooster.  She did so good and sangso well!  We were so proud of her and loved watching her show!

 Preshow Photo Shoot

 Sisters!

 Opening Entrance

 During the performance

 Happy Dance in Mrs. Donna's class for doing such a good job!

 Cookies afterwards...

 Alan and I laughed so hard b/c she had this tiny cookie and 

we were dying for her just to finish it up quick.  Pregnant Mama was hungry for dinner and we were ready to go.  She had the equivalent of a 1 little bite left and Alan and I took quiet bets on how many it would take her to finish.  I opted for the oh she'll stick it in her mouth and be done.  Alan said nope it's at least a 2 biter...and low and behold it took 4  more bites to finish a little crumb of a cookie.  We were laughing so hard at her dainty little bites. 

Our Kite

Back in March I picked up a couple of cheap kites for the girls.  We flew them at the park one day and Alan decided we needed a bigger better kite.  So he MADE it.  It flew awesome.  We had a great time making it fly high and chasing it.

Pirate Day!

Arrrr Mateys...Kindergarten held is pirate day in celebration of learning all their consonants.  All the sweet little children were dressed in their pirate best and played all sorts of games to celebrate.  My job was helping them with the walk the plank game.  We had so much fun.  Also a super shout out to our sweet friends the McClendons who supplied our costume for the day since they had done this last year.  But alas, learning all the letters is so bittersweet because while I'm so proud of my sweet girl it also means the school year end is going to be here before I know it. {Sigh}

How cool is she?!

Waiting for the games to begin!

 Fishing for consonants

 Spying the right letter!

 Digging for treasure

 All the Pirates

Walking the Plank!