Dance Festival/Misc May

Dance Festival/Misc May
May 23...

Emilyn, Lucas and I went to watch Matisyn's dance festival performance.  The first grade did a great job with their Lion King dance.  Matisyn really is born to perform, and loves being able to be part of events like that.  If only she liked the drill and practice of learning the routines in a dance class!  I was sad that when I started to video her dance I realized that my camera's memory card was full.  At least I got some pictures of those cute moves of hers!

 Emilyn and her friend Molly

 Matisyn loved pirate day at school, and has had pirates on the brain ever since.

 It takes some serious chasing and cornering, but occasionally we can catch a duck to hold.  This must have been Daisy because she was so calm, and just let Emilyn and Matt sit next to her.

 Until she was done!

 The three musketeers!

 We spent Memorial Day over at Grandma Barb's house.  Matt helped his mom go through the office and do some other projects.  The girls were so happy to have the pool open.  It hasn't been heated yet, or that warm outside, so the water was freezing.  That didn't stop Emilyn.  She jumped right in...and then got out immediately, and then jumped back in again.  I was so excited to see her jump in and swim to the step.  Swim lessons will hopefully pay off big this year.

 Matisyn was a little slower to get in, but eventually discovered that she could sit on top of the mat or float in four tubes at a time and not get very wet.  The cousins had fun playing together until they were too cold to handle it anymore and ran in and squeezed into the bathtub together in their suits.

 Emilyn looking up to her big girl cousin!

 Matt and Mike found some trail maps during their office cleaning.  They dove right into their research!

 Cousin CJ graduated from high school this week.  It's hard to believe that he will be leaving on a mission to Berlin, Germany next month.  I still remember him as a little five year old!  The girls were cheering very loud for him when they called his name.  We're so proud of him and all his accomplishments!

 Matisyn is officially a second grader now!  She just had her last day of 1st grade.  Here is a picture of her first day of school and her last day.  I can hardly believe how fast the year disappeared.  She had some ups and downs, but during the year has learned so much, adored her teacher, made new friends, and had lots of new adventures.  She is ready for summer, and can't wait to have some time to do the things she wants to do, but is really sad to leave her friends and teacher.  We love our big girl!  In other school news, she got to be student of the month in May.  We're so proud of her!

 She is especially proud of all the spirit sticks she has collected this year! 

 We spent the first couple days of summer enjoying the perfect temperatures outside.  It's been in the 70's, and beautiful.  Lucas loves to be outside taking in his surroundings and watching the girls and the ducks.  The girls were so happy that we cleaned out the spa and got it heated again.  They have spent as much time as possible in it since then.  They are both such water kids.

 Lucas got to take his first bath this week sitting up.  He loved to be able to look around, splash, and of course, eat toys!  I loved that he kept a toy in his mouth so that he could have hands for the other toys.

 The girls love to help Lucas with bath time.