One last kindergarten brag

Addy, Cally and one fabulous kindergarten teacher! Addy asked that Cally also be in the picture, which I thought was super sweet. Addy was sad and teary-eyed about saying goodbye to her teacher for summer break, but we got lucky and ran into her at T-ball. Addy was thrilled and got a couple of hugs.

Addy is joyously posing with her prize for aceing every spelling test. There were 20 tests and Addy studied for each and every one of them. Some tests were easy-peasy and some tests Addy really worked her bottom off to learn the words. To add another brag, Addy only missed one question on all of her chapter tests all year (both math and reading tests).  David and I are so proud of her. I love that Addy enjoys setting a goal and working hard to achieve it. Oh and the angry half-naked preschooler in the background is Bear! We had just had dinner, it was messy and she was wearing a white dress... Side-note, Addy assembled the dino HQ lego set pretty much all by herself within days!

All blinged out!

More is always more to the preschool set! Addy was equally blinged out, but would not permit me to photograph her styling. I think her exact words, were "I am out!" Luckily, Cally is still my little camera bug. :)

Hiking in the safari

This year our home zoo offered a family membership to a local drive through wildlife safari as an add on. We have already visited the safari twice now and have had a fantastic time each visit. Well, I didn't love the HUGE black snake that slithered over the path by the kids playground! Although, Addy ran over to 'see' the snake as soon as we pointed it out to her! Some of the things we really enjoy about the safari is that in addition to to the drive through safari component, they also offer hands-on activities such a little petting zoo, hikes, and lots of animals to peer at close to the gift shop and playground. 



Summer Livin'!

Cally by Cally

And the hunt goes on!

Addy loves, loves butterfly hunting...

Peek-a-boo!

Jiffy loves to guard the butterflies. Cally loves to try her hand at capturing butterflies too.

Addy and Daddy bonding

Addy and David had a great time watching James and the Giant Peach last Sunday. Cally and I also enjoyed the play. ;)

Better and Better

Cool balloon flowers, Cally loved them.

Well, she loved them until I told her she couldn't keep any of them....

Cally was very busy checking out her cart full of goodies.

Water play is always a ton of fun, until it is not. You can't tell in this photo, but the little boy next to Cally is shirt-less!

We love our new local children's museum. Every time we visit there is something new and better. This past visit we played in the new pizza parlor. The pizza parlor has a full kitchen complete with brick oven, dinning tables and and a register desk. I loved that the phone rings with pizza orders when the register is being used. David and I had more fun playing pizza parlor than Cally. Oh and a huge bonus is that the Wonderful Wizard of Oz will be on exhibit all summer!!!

My little pretties!

Cally does Addy's pretty pose now.

Addy prefers to use a silly dance pose now.

Butterfly hunting: 101!

It is very important to not let the butterflies see the net. Or as David would say, who is Annette? Addy and Cally are pretty good little butterfly catchers. I am sure that is a very marketable skill, right?

Royally fun!

The girls had a fishing adventure with Grandpa and Grandma M while David and I took in a Royal vs Yankees ball game. We had a wonderful day at the park. Addy and Cally had an amazing time fishing and spending time with family. So, I guess we all won, well not the Royals....

My lone iris!

When we moved we left behind all of my flowers. It was just a sad fact of our move. Luckily, my mom gave me a group of iris to replace my old ones. I planted them all right away and this pretty purple one is the only one that bloomed. Honestly, I am just excited to have one bloom! I will move the iris to a better location in the fall. I think they get too much shade where I put them.

Addy faces

Addy is a dead ringer for me in this picture. In case you are wondering, she built an animal day care with some of her LPS (little pet shop) and other animals she has.

In this picture Addy looks just like herself as young toddler. She is making the same excited curious face. <3

This is a silly picture of Addy posing in front of her latest bunch of flowers from her friend. Addy and her friend are very sweet together and just have a lot of fun. :)

This just makes me happy!!

It might be a well known secret that I love my vacuum! I also love my Cally Bear! It is hard to even put into words how much I loved Cally Bear vacuuming!!

Cally was pretty excited too!

Slow blogger!

I have definitely become a slow blogger! We are busy this spring, but I certainly want to be able to look back and reminisce. Hopefully, I will be more on top of blogging the second half of this month.

I don't have pictures to share, David probably has some on his phone I can add later though. But Addy was fantastic at her second T-ball game! She hit both her first pitches when she was at bat. She even put her bat down and headed right to first base. At home when we practice she usually throws her bat behind her. I am sure her coach appreciates not getting a bat in the leg! When her team was playing offense, Addy chased the ball down and threw it to first with out fail. I told Addy that she played better in that one game than I played my whole T-ball career! Sadly that is totally true....

Soccer is going well also. Addy is improving and getting a little more aggressive during their scrimmages. She is definitely trying more, but she still hustles the most when it is her turn to rotate off the field! Oh and I can't forget what Addy said about her team, "The team that always wins is the team not wearing yellow." I don't think I have to say that Addy plays on the yellow team, do I? ;)