Aby's Preschool program

It is official, we have our very first graduate in the family. (ok not the first but close) Aby Graduated from preschool the first time (she has to go again next year) on May 24, 2007. I may go down as the worst mom in history for making her go but what can you do. Aby was fighting a cold, and started to run a fever about 1 1/2 hours before her program, so me being the wonderful mom, gave her medicine, and let her sleep for an hour, then woke her up did her hair, and took her to the program. Luckily the Tylonal had kicked in and she was feeling much better. I would have felt even worse if she had missed though, her daddy took the day off of work to see her swim lesson and this program.
The kids started out by saying the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. The theme in their preschool this year has been CareBears, that explains th bears that the kids are holding.

In one of the songs the kids marched around a row of large ABC blocks and then would choose one to sit on and tell the teacher the letter that they were sitting on. It was great until multiple kids started trying to sit onthe same letter.

Here the kids were singing a song about the primary and secondary colors. Aby was red, and for the most part did great, except she would stand up with the green and yellow every once in a while.

At the end of the Program the teachers did a little spot light on all of the kids, and gave them a graduation certificate. Aby is the only girl that said when she grows up she wants to be like her dad! I was very happy and Ryan thought it was sweet. All the other girls want to be like their moms. I don't know if I should be offended or not, but I am glad that Aby loves her dad enough to want to be like him, he is a wonderful man.

By the end you could tell that Aby was tierd and a little bit bored, so were the other kids.

Grandma Sullivan came and watched the program also. Thank you for comming and for the fun toys grandma. Ryan decided that he needed to joing the fun, and put on the CareBear hat, I think that it makes him look fantastic. What do you think?

At the end when I tried to get pictures of Aby Kenzie decided that she was going to be in them as well. Thank goodness they are such good friends, and thank you Grandma Sullivan for remembering Kenzie also.

Aby Swimming Lesson Take 2! (the final day)

I would first like to thank Michelle for being such a wonderful teacher. After the first lesson disaster it was so nice to know that Aby was with someone who was so great!!! (Andrew Thank you so much for finding and falling in love with Michelle.) Aby has come so far in her swimming. When we first started out she would put her head under, but was a little bit afraid, and she couldn't float on either her front or her back. I was actually a little nervous to put her in a level 2, but I figured she would do Ok. Aby did great, and was floating on her front and back, as well as trying to swim by herslef. I credit this to Michelle, because she is such a great teacher, and I think Aby would do anything she asked her to.
This is Aby and Michell on the last day. Aby had such a great time in swimming lessons, and is much mor confident in the water.

Here Aby is showing her daddy that she can swim her front arms on her tummy. She actually did pretty good, she was kicking and you could see her arms come out of the water. I was really impressed. She just needs to keep working to go a little bit longer.

Ahhhh the eternal work of trying to get Aby to kick with straight legs. Aby rides a bicycle when ever she tries to kick, but we are working on balleria kicks, so hopefully she will get better

Near the end of the lesson Michelle to the kids over to a deeper area and was having them jump to her. Aby it turned out was the most daring one in the class, she was the only one who would jump into the water, and try to swim the others were very timid. Here she is ready to jump.....

And into the water we go. I was so proud of her. Thank you again Michelle for all of your hard work with Aby she never would have made it without you, and thank you for helping me out of sticky situation.

A fun Sunday Afternoon

A few Sunday's ago we decided to go up and visit mom and dad for a little while on a Sunday evening. The kids had a lot of fun playing in the back yard, and being with Grandma and Grandpa. We are so glad that we are able to live so close to them at this time in our lives. We know that may change someday, so we are taking advantage of the time right now. Aby and Kenzie and Brooklyn love their Grandma and Grandpa Roundy very much.
Grandpa just has a way of getting his granddaughters to smile and laugh! Check out the grin on Brooklyn's face.

There is nothing better than having grandma sit down and read a story, just ask Aby and Kenzie. Thank you Grandma for being such a good example to my children.

Our new swimming pool

Before you see the new pool, I thought that I would show you what Brooklyn does during our afternoon swimming sessions. I will hold her, or she will sleep on a blanket. She loves to be outside, and for the most part is very content to watch her sisters and their friends play in the water. The only thing she doens't like is the SUN I have to keep her in the shade or she gets very upset.
Ok here it is, I finally broke down and bought a new swimming pool, our other one was two years old, and while it is still in good condition,I will continue to use it, the girls thought that it was really small and wanted a bigger one. So I caved and went to Target to look for a new pool and sprinkler that they could play with. (I told Ryan that spending this money saved him from buying a 600.00 dollar pass at the new rec center.) We found a great pool that is in the shape of a star, and the girls love it. After a quick stop at the rees's to have Tyler blow it up we put the water in and started swimming.

Both of the girls we so excited that they could both be in the pool with toys, and stretch out and play. I was just glad that they were not yelling at eachother to "stop touching me!"

Here both girls were catching fish in the pool. They had a great time, and still play in the pool almost daily. (I have to use our spare sump pump to empty the pool everyother day.) There will be no pictures of that becuase you might die laughting. I usually end up looking like I went swimming. Mainly because the hose will pop off and I will get caught in an impromptu version of old faithful.

If you look really close you will see the sprinkler that I bought, it is really cool, the only thing is the kids won't run through it, they will only use it under the trampoline. Oh well at least my lawn is getting watered and won't die this year.

the other side of "scooter park"

Ok Tiffany showed you how scooter park got it's name, but my kids like to play on the toys as well as ride their bikes. Here are some pictures of them playing on the toys. They like this park better than most of the others, because there is sand and not wood chips so they can take off their shoes and play.
It took me almost the entire time that we were playing to get them to both sit down and take a picture together. they were just too busy playing.

Kenzie (my brave one) figured out that she could go up and down this forward and decided that was much more fun than crawling backward.

Aby is just a ball of energy, and had a great time just running from place to place on the toy, and going on the slides and playing on the bridges. Aby is also my friendly child. When we very first got there, another family was there, and Aby ran right on over and asked them to play with her. This is a big step considering last year I couldn't even convince her to ask the people that she knew to play with her.

One of the slides need I say more.

Builders of Cities

The girls found their blocks one night, and sat down at the table to play with them. I am surprised at how much my girls love to build with blocks.
Aby was building her "city with a lot of stores" in this picture, and the only way that she would agree to put the blocks away so I could set the table was to take a picutre for Dominick and Braden and Karson to see.

Kenzie build her own city after fighting for blocks and winning a few. You can see how proud she is by the smile on her face.

Swimming!

The weather hit the mid 80's, and so my neighbor and I pulled out the swimsuits for our kids. She had a small pool, and I turned on the sprinkler under the trampoline. The kids had a great time jumping and getting wet.
Aby and Josh (our neighbors son) were playing in the middle of the water. They would sit down everyonce in a while, but mostly just enjoyed jumping.

What makes the Trampoline get wet? This was just too funny to see all three kids looking under the tramp to see the sprinkler. If I wasn't taking picutures, I might have pulled the sprinkler out to get them all wet.

Here is Kenzie mid jump. She is my little dare devil, and will just about do anything.

Brooklyn enjoyed the fun from the very dry patio in her bouncy chair. She had a great time and enjoyed being outside. She definatly loves to play outside.