Hannah - 7 months and crawling

Uh-oh! Stuck under the ottoman, again.

"I love to tear up magazines!"

Hannah and her tongue

stuck under the love seat

Hannah has started to crawl/scoot backwards. This is all well and good until she gets herself stuck under the furniture. Then she gets very irritated with the world until someone comes to save her! She is very close to going forward. A little too close for comfort if you ask me!

First Foods

Trying a graham cracker - She's not quite ready for it, but she really liked it and threw a little fit when I had to take the it away!

Mmmmm - an apple!

Green beans are not her favorite!

Hannah's been trying lots of new foods lately. She does NOT like baby cereal or green beans. She tries to block them with her tongue. If I manage to get them in her mouth, she uses her gums to scrape them off her tongue as she does a little shudder. Such drama! But she loves fruit, especially pears and applesauce. And really who can blame her?! She also like to chew on foods in her little mesh bag. So far we've only given her apples and cantaloupe. I've tried to find Biter Biscuits, but can't find them anywhere. I guess they don't make them anymore, which is a shame, because this girl would love them!

Last Day of School

picnic lunch

Mrs. W. and Andrew

Andrew and Mrs. B.

Wednesday was Andrew's last day of school. They invited family to come a little early for a picnic lunch. For fun last day activities, they played outside games and ran obstacle courses in the gym, which is why Andrew looks like someone dumped a bucket of water on his head. He wasn't really interested in smiling for the camera. He was sad that it was the last day, but had a little trouble admitting it until a couple days later. Such a sweet boy!

Family time

Andrew teaching Ashley and Josh how to play his version of Blokus.

Adam and Sarah bonding

Matt, Sarah, Ashley and Josh were all in town visiting last week, so we had a family dinner at Mom and Dad's last Friday. Mom made verenika! YUM! Of course the boys did not think it was a special treat, but the rest of us did!

Fiesta Day!

Waiting for their turn to hit the Pinata

Anna Marie takes a turn at hitting the dinosaur.

Andrew gets in two good whacks.

Christian taking his turn.

And finally the loot spills out (with a little help from Mrs. B and some keys)

gathering up the bounty

snack time - note Andrew's excitement at the prospect of chips, salsa and guacamole.

Last Friday, I was able to help with Andrew's class party. It was Fiesta Day, complete with paper plate sombreros and a pinata! We were a little worried that the pinata would break before all 19 kids were able to take a turn at hitting it. But we worried in vain. Each kid took two good swings at the dinosaur, with no results. Finally Mrs. B. took out some aggression and it still didn't break. One of the other parents used his keys to try and cut some holes to make the candy fall out. Still nothing. In the end, we ripped off the legs and dumped out the pinata much to the kids delight! Then we went back to the classroom for snacks - chips, salsa, cheese dip, guacamole and sopapilla cheesecake. Yummy to everyone but Andrew. So glad I had the chance to help in his class!

Happy Mother's Day!

Me and the kiddos on Mother's Day

Grandma and Hannah, can you tell it was a little windy?

Helping Grandpa fill buckets to give some new trees a drink.

On Mother's Day we went to Hutchinson to have dinner with Grandma and Grandpa. It was very windy, but we spent a lot of time outside in the nice weather.

Andrew's preschool program

The theme was Dinosaurs!

Can you find Andrew? He's the one in the middle wearing a white shirt, looking a little uncertain about the whole situation.

Doing the motions!

And singing!

boys with the volcano

Andrew's spring program was this week and he did AWESOME! This was a big deal for all of us. After three painful programs in his preschool career, we kept our expectations low and our bribes high for this one.

He kept telling me he was scared of all the people, and I told him that they wouldn't be looking at him. They would only be watching their own kids. That seemed to help a little and then a day or two before the program he watched an episode of Olivia. Olivia's friend was scared of performing also, and Olivia told him to imagine that all the people were his stuffed animals. The night of the program, Andrew told us he was going to do the same. We also promised him we would go get some frozen yogurt after his program at Orange leaf if he tried to sing. The little stinker then asked how many songs he had to sing to get ice cream. I told him ALL of the songs.

I'm not sure what really worked, but it doesn't matter because he sang EVERY song and did all the motions. My little boy is growing up! And the bribe to get some frozen yogurt after his program may have helped a little too!