So happy summer is here! The kids have been playing outside and 'working' in the yard all day. Danny collects all his tools and creates worksites all over the yard. This kid loves to work. I weeded gardens at my mothers, and he stood beside me pulling weeds for over an hour and a half. Grammie bought them some garden gloves and Danny is a pro at putting his work gloves on and getting down to business. Sammy has been helping Daddy in the yard using his tractor power wheels. It has a trailer attached and Sammy loves to help Daddy load up weeds and drive them over to the corner of the yard and dump them.
Kids are really swimming well now. We are in Grammie's pool a lot and at the beach as well. Sam can go no bubble and asks for me to take it off all the time. He loves to be underwater and spin around. Camping was great for this because the water wasn't too deep.
Since they were babies, I always say 'have a good sleep' when they are going to bed, and 'good morning' when they wake up. Well now the kids have a pretty big vocabulary, and they say morning, afternoon, and night time. Except for Danny, he says good morning. So if we are talking about going somewhere tomorrow, he'll say 'are we going in the good morning?' or if I'm snuggling Sammy before bed he'll say 'I'll snuggle you in the good morning mom'. It's so cute I can't correct him. I want him to think every morning is a good morning.
Elsie has been saying lately that she is afraid of the dark. I'm not sure if it is valid as she only says it when she isn't being snuggled. But she said it the other night while I was snuggling Danny, and Danny said 'Els, you can come sleep in my bed if you are scared.' and then he added 'you can too brother (and Sammy yelled 'ok!') , we can have a snuggle party in my bed'. This moment was especially heartwarming since it doesn't happen often. Being together 24 hours a day leads to lots of fighting, teasing, and all kinds of other malarchy. So to see a warm, sincere interaction where Danny was concerned about her and then immediately didn't want to leave Sammy out made my heart smile.
Another year of preschool in the books. They had some spring pictures taken at school and I just love this photographer. She always does group shots as well as individuals. Heirloom Photography. Check her out!
she loves her brothers. always wants to be in the middle.
love his glasses.
some Sammy and Mommy time for Sammy's doctor appointment
We moved a tree from the front yard to the backyard, kids loved seeing the machines.
We started a vegetable garden. This was the before pic in May.
This is the vegetable garden now.
Elsie working on the garden
Sammy and Danny working in the shade
Moving the tree
Danny's tools
Ariel. All day. Every day. It's her favorite princess.
We got to see the daffodils in full bloom with Grammie. What a beautiful day!
it was very sunny. hard to get a good picture.
loving on yoshi
can we talk about how she is so relaxed she has her feet crossed at the dentist.
on a walk with Vovo
Last day of school with Ms. Beaulieu. She LOVES her. Like draws a picture for her EVERYDAY. It's now July and she still talks about her every day.
The best teachers ever! My kids love school because of them
showing off their new sneakers
giving yoshi a foot rub
kids love the home depot workshops. this month was a racecar
playing bumper pool at Myranda's graduation party
she wanted to hold the sign. and be in the middle. she is clearly disappointed it couldn't happen.
congrats Myranda!
5 min into the car ride home
even Grammie and Sammy are out. I love how Sammy took off his shoes
I was doing yardwork, and turned around and didn't see Emmie. She walked onto the solar cover and then froze floating in the pool waiting for me to come save her
ice cream cones on the deck after dinner
swimming at Grammies
I built a pool deck so we can jump in and hang out poolside
relaxing. what a life.
dropping the kids off to school with my fur baby
painting our nails on the deck
we had a block party in the neighborhood. Ariel was there. For the win.
And Moana :)
and face painting. this was her dream party
we hung out with Daisy, a neighbor's dog and had a picnic on the lawn
We've been going on a family walk each night. They love it!
Hup 2, 3, 4!
Camping at Peter's Pond
we needed a lot of nap rides with all the playing and swimming we did
eating snacks at the pool
it's This Is Us real life
always sitting with their momma
love this pic with our campfire chairs
my monkeys
taking a break while daddy starts the fire
S'Mores!
Danny was so tired here. He was waiting for his turn in the shower and was holding his eyes open lol
we were fishing and I look over and see her with her pole in the post. that's my girl
Most of the days camping we spent on the beach at the lake playing in the water.
that pretty smile
we set the blow up slide and pool on the deck for those hot days
Here are some videos!
Sammy exercising
This is one of my favorite videos. The kids love this song, Meet me in the middle. Elsie belts is out. I had to take a secret video of it since she won't sing if she sees me recording, but the best parts are just after 1 min 35 sec, and the last 25 seconds. That's where she really lets it go!
She is really getting into singing songs, and learning the words. Here she is singing How far it goes in Moana
Danny loves Bruno Mars. He has since he was 2. Every song he sings, Danny says he likes. Danny loves to dance, and has lots of moves. Here he is dripping in Finesse.
Danny sees opportunity everywhere. After dancing he decides to build a chair tower. I love how he talks about 2 boys and 1 girl with the 3 chairs. And how she just continues making her necklaces as the commotion goes on around her.
The kids have learned to give you the I Love You fingers.
