Summer is almost here!

The kids and I started off the month doing lots of crafts for Mother's Day and with spring time themes.  Scott started taking Joshua to the Home Depot for their project days, and they made the cutest wheelbarrow flower planter.

Scott was out of town on business for the better part of 3 weeks at the end of April and beginning of May.  He has been to Georgia, New Jersey and Baltimore this time around.  His next trip is just outside of Washington DC in June, and the kids and I are going to drive down to meet him for a few days.  We have been scouring the tourism websites for great things to do with the kids there.  We're pretty excited about it.

We had a tour at a local dairy farm with BFF.  It happened to be on a day Scott was actually in town, and he was able to take the day off to come with us.  The kids had a great time looking at all of the cows - especially the babies!  

  

Joshua's last day of school was the 19th.  He has been a little confused about why school is closed for the summer, and why he isn't allowed to go see his teachers.  He is excited to go back in September.   The teachers aide who was in his class this year will also be an assistant for his new class next year.  I'm hoping this will work well for his transition.  Chelsea will be starting in the same 2 year old program Joshua was in this year.  She will also have the same 2 teachers Joshua had this year, so she knows them already.   We're hoping this will work in our favor when it comes to the separation anxiety.

Joshua and Scott have started several small gardens in the yard this month.  They have sunflowers, pumpkins, carrots, spinach, corn and flowers starting to sprout already.  We are hoping to have pumpkins to use for Halloween this year.  Scott bought "Competition Size" Pumpkins, so it should be interesting to see how large they actually get!

With the warmer weather, we are spending a lot of time outside at the park, going to picnics and having fun.  We have a great new fountain sprinkler to play with in the yard, and plans for lots of fun things around town this summer.  We'll keep everyone updated!

  

There are several photo albums listed on the right with some of the fun things we've done the last couple months.  Be sure to take a look at them!