One more half day of school left!!!! Today was beach day, hence the flip flops, hat, sunglasses, etc. They played "beachy" games, spent a lot of time outside, and had snacks on their beachtowels. Sounds like fun to me!
And here is Gerard with his teacher, Mrs. K, on the day of their poetry reading:
Quite a change from the first day of school...
Gerard's class kept a Poetry Folder throughout the year and yesterday the class performed the poems for the parents. Not every child performed one, but Gerard did 2! The kids in each group came up with their own motions....
And today Morgan got some new flip flops in the mail from Grandma and Grandpa:
Just a quick post to share Gerard's baseball game from yesterday. I hope you all have had a nice weekend!
I am just about caught up, so I thought I'd share one more cute picture of Morgan and Savannah. They love coloring with chalk. Here they are on Shauna's front porch:
I'm heading to bed, but I thought I'd share a little video of Morgan. We were testing out our new video camera in low-light settings. Enjoy!
We interrupt our regularly scheduled catching up posts to wish Grandma Andrea and Grandpa Ian a very happy 41st wedding anniversary!
Even though school is in session for another week and a half, it certainly feels like summer already. It was unseasonably hot for the beginning of June, with temps almost hitting 90 for a week. The kids took full advantage of the heat, and played in the kiddie pools and sprinklers every day after school. As usual, Gerard counts the minutes until he can play with Maddie, and now Morgan anxiously awaits her time with Savannah. They are so cute together.
Grandma quilted herself a new purse:
When she sent me the pictures, I knew I had to have one of my own. She made me a pink and brown one and surprised Morgan with one of her own, too. Doesn't she look cute with it?
Here are some pictures from Gerard's baseball game on Friday. He finally got to play first base (a coveted position) and did pretty well.
Shauna brought the girls over to watch Gerard play after Maddie's tee ball game was over. Gerard loves having fans and Morgan loves having friends to play with!
Our neighborhood does an Easter egg hunt every year but the weather doesn't always seem to cooperate. It rained one year. One year there was too much SNOW on the ground to find the eggs. This year it was just perfect....sunny and slightly cool.
When I explained to Morgan that we were going across the street to look for candy-filled eggs and she could put them in her basket, she started calling it "Easter Halloween". That's my good Jewish daughter.
The kids had fun, although Morgan was not a big fan of the Easter Bunny.
Of course, we don't actually celebrate Easter, which Gerard was kind enough to remind his teacher:
Baseball season is officially underway.
We bumped Gerard up from tee-ball to little minors and it is MUCH more interesting to play AND to watch. He is the youngest player on the team (it's mostly 7 & 8 year olds) but he plays as well as (or better than) the rest of them. Here are some pictures from a game earlier in the season:
Morgan usually spends her time during the games playing with other players' siblings or playing in the dirt. She loves every minute of it.
A few months ago, Grandma Andrea went to a Sabres vs. Coyotes hockey game and she brought an 8x10 picture of Gerard in his goalie equipment with her. She had hoped that she'd be able to get it to Ryan Miller so he could autograph the picture and mail it back. She was able to get it to a trainer and asked the trainer to give the picture (with a self-addressed, stamped envelope and note) to Ryan. Months went by and we never received anything. Soooo, it came as a total shock to us a few weeks ago when we got this special envelope in the mail from Ryan:
Morgan is officially a big girl. Just ask her. She is NOT a baby. She takes offense if you call her a baby. She is potty trained (not at night yet), no longer uses a booster seat to eat, is getting ready to go to preschool in the fall, and sleeps in a big girl bed.
We got her big girl furniture just before her 3rd birthday. Here she is sleeping in her bed for the first time on April 6 (not the greatest picture, but I wanted to capture the moment):
She really likes her big girl furniture and wasn't even sad when she watched us sell her crib and changing table at our garage sale. She wanted a "Princess" room, but I hate all the cheesy Disney Princess bedding so I decided to do a non-character comforter and decorate with princess accessories. Well, who knew it would be so hard to find bedding that matched her purple walls and could coordinate with princess stuff?! Luckily, Morgan has a super talented Grandma who could make a custom quilt just to our specifications!!! Isn't it perfect??!!
When I get around to finally decorating with all those princess accessories, I'll be sure to take a picture! But for now, she's loving her non-princess princess room. Oh, and Grandma and Grandpa got her American Girl bitty baby dolls for her birthday, so of course Grandma Andrea had to make them a matching quilt:
For months, if you asked Morgan what kind of birthday party she wanted she'd tell you a Sleeping Booty party. Aunt Debbie and Grandma advocated for her since I didn't want to do a Sleeping Beauty party (I can't tell you how many times I heard "You do whatever Gerard wants for his birthdays!") In the end Sleeping Booty won out and Morgan was NOT disappointed! Morgan enjoyed having Aunt Debbie and all of her friends here to celebrate with!
Fifth disease spread like wildfire around Gerard's school this fall. Most of the kids on our street got it and Gerard and Morgan were no exception. Neither one of them had any symptoms other than the rash, and both got better quickly. Here are some pictures of Morgan with the tell-tale rash (although I didn't take a picture when the rash was on her face):
And finally, Morgan has a great group of friends. I enjoy our weekly playdates as much as she does and 4 out of the 5 of them will be in preschool together in the fall. It's nice to see her playing with her own friends -- not just with Gerard's friends. Here's the crazy bunch at one of our playdates:
