We had a great time celebrating Carrie's 5th birthday! We decided to throw a party for both Carrie and Ethan at the local skating center. It is always hard to do a party for Ethan since his birthday is in December. And it is hard for him to watch Carrie get presents in the summer and at Christmas, when he gets all of his in December. So, we celebrated her 5th and his 2 1/2 together and it was great!
Ethan wanted to paint tonight. It took me about 10 minutes of him saying "ah pent" over and over for me to figure out that he was saying, "I paint" (and by that time, he must have been thinking to himself, "what does it sound like I'm saying woman? I'm telling you I want to paint a picture!") Poor kid is so misunderstood! He had a fun time and is so cute when he's concentrating! And here's the masterpiece!
The kids have been loving the pool for the past two weeks. I think this is something like the 4th or 5th time we've been so far this summer. As you can see, we're not making a lot of progress with getting Carrie to go under, but they are really enjoying being in the water. We didn't get a clip of Ethan going under, but he doesn't seem to mind it when he does. A few nights ago he was jumping in to Bob, going all the way under, coming up sputtering cause he won't keep his mouth closed (he's so happy, he won't quit smiling long enough to keep his lips together!) and then swimming right back to the side to climb out and do it all again...and again...and again...
Such fun!
Carrie graduated from Pre K this morning. It was so much fun to see how excited and proud they all were for us parents to see them in action at their school. We have been so blessed with the quality of education at WCC and even more blessed by how much the staff and teachers truly love the students. It has been a wonderful year for Carrie!
This is Mrs. Debbie, the director of WCC, and Mrs. Simmons, Carrie's teacher, gave her her diploma.
This one took some time, but she's got it! Carrie is graduating from Pre-K next week. I don't know how I'm going to keep her from being bored to death all summer. She is getting so much more independent these days, and mom is wishing she would just stop growing for a little while!
Don't want to leave Ethan out, so I'll share that he is fascinated with the bugs that jump around in the backyard! He's a boy - just waiting for the day he brings me a frog in his pocket!
He needs to stop growing for a while too!
(That's Clara, our neighbor behind us. Ethan thinks she's the coolest because she can catch the bugs!)
I have official evidence of Carrie and Ethan actually getting along! I caught them playing TOGETHER in the fort. They were quietly reading books and snacking on pretend picnic food.
Well, some of you know that Ethan is not a very verbal child. But he is slowly adding some new words to the vocabulary, so we wanted to record his sweet little voice to remember this phase.
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