Washington Cousins

Grandma and grandpa watched the Washington cousins for a couple days. I took the kids to grandma's so they could all play. They all had so much fun and I know they are looking forward to the next visit.

JJ on the swing, which is now a favorite activity at grandma's.

Samantha and her cousin bumping feet.

Samantha and another cousin bumping feet.

Grandma, a couple cousins, and Riley on the big swing.

History Repeated

We have two of these Dora power wheels quads that Jamie got for the girls when he came back form his last deployment and couple years ago. They have been sitting in garage over the winter. When the weather started getting nicer, we moved them to the back yard, but then had to find the chargers. The girls love these "Dora bikes" (as we call them around here) and ask often to ride them. And the boys often try to.

Jamie has this story that he has told me a few times about how when he was a kid, he had a power wheel three wheeler. He said that after a while the battery wouldn't hold a charge more then 10 minutes no matter how long it was plugged in. Well, being the crafty guy that was (is?) he convinced the neighborhood kids to push him around on it.

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. . .

Spring Concert

Samantha's school had a Spring Concert series. While waiting for it to start, I was talking with a friend about future concerts and how in a few years, I will be attending these all week since the school only does a few grades each night. Something to look forward to. . . Here is "a" picture of Samantha singing one of the songs. I have a few more, but the lighting did something really funky to everyone's eyes and they all looked possessed. Some thing to deal with if I ever find time to scrap book again.
The concert went well. They had two other groups perform that night, her's being last. Their group, I think, did the best. You could understand almost all of what they sang. They also had some extra things for a lot of the kids to do each song. Sam was picked for some lighting control for one of the songs, and was very excited about it. She did very well.

Books

My kids love books. They love to look at books. They love to read books. They love to listen too books. They love to make paths with books. They love to build with books. They love to tear books. And I love it when I find them sitting (quietly) with a book.

I love how focused he seems to be.

And, of course, the digital age has spoiled us in that we can pull out our camera for anything and everything. So a common phrase in our house, is "Mom, take my picture." And when I do pull out the camera, everything becomes posed, and they all want to be in the pictures. So here is Andrea, doing what she can to be "on film."

Andrea reading a book.

They do look cute reading a book together, though.