May Fun

One of the things the girls both look forward to is spending time at their grandparents’ houses.  At the end of May, we took a trip to see Grandma and Grandpa A.  Besides getting to spend some good quality time with them, the girls also spent a lot of time enjoying being outside—and driving toy cars.They drove both cars; N. was usually the passenger, but a happy and willing one at that.

There were many urgent tasks to attend to.

And great monsters that sometimes chased them.

But always time to stop and pose.

N: “Stop and wait right there!”

And I’ll see the sunglasses-bespectacled girls driving together again in high school (though N. might be closer in height to K by then?)

And some quality time was spent with cousin W. So fun!

Even the little N. took a turn driving.  Can you tell she has a wild streak?But the funniest part was that she’d get to a turn and not really be able to turn the steering wheel enough to make her happy, so she would stop, get out of the car, and turn the entire car to point in the correct direction.Here comes trouble.More cousin happiness!

We also got to go around the lake in the boat.  Here is the first passenger, ready to go!

K. was a good driver.  Cautious, but good.

N. took a turn driving.  Pretty much the first thing she did was to locate the accelerator.And once she discovered the button for the horn, that’s all she did the rest of the time.  The girl likes loud things.The girls took turns kayaking with Grandma.And even helped paddle.Froggy K. jumped in the lake.And N. just hung out.  Can you tell her teasing face is a response to Grandpa and Mom telling her that she had honked the horn enough?  She doesn’t honk it again, but sure makes us think she might.And the girls swam in the lake with Dad.  K. was quite brave.And both girls eventually floated on the float in the lake.  Surprisingly, N. was the more cautious of the girls.

Preschool Finale

I’m still catching up on my blogging, so this is old news by now, but K. has graduated from preschool!  She had a sweet little program with singing and what not with her classmates.

Look at my girl just cheezin’ it!

With her teachers.  These gals were so great with her, and she loves them so much!  Given the choice, I think she would move out of our house and in with a teacher.

Little Girls on the Prairie

We went to a local “Living History Museum” with some of our good friends, and there was so much for the girls to do!  We went to a barn with a bunch of baby animals (and Mom was in heaven) and the girls got to ride pretend horses.As you can see by K’s reluctance to pet the baby miniature horse, petting a real animal would probably have been out of the question.  She would not touch the sweet, fuzzy baby.

Besides all of the neat interactive things, it was even fun for the girls to just be able to spend some time outside.  In the next picture, notice the small pile of rocks between the girls.  They played with those for a long time.

New experience of walking on (unused) railroad tracks.

We saw the tethered hot air balloon that gives rides regularly.  It was so beautiful there, and just nice for the girls to have a big open place to run.

The younger girls got tuckered out after lunch.

Our beautiful friends!

The Very Merry Month of May

Just a few random pictures of the girls clowning for the camera and some of our normal, typical, daily life which consists mostly of playing My Little Pony.