Friends

I like to take this picture every year to see how the kids have grown. The boy is the next door neighbor. He's a good kid and is in the same grade as Tersa. He spends time with the girls outside after school, comes to the pool with us sometimes and every once in a while we have a movie or game night at our house which he seems to really enjoy.

Memorial Weekend

Never in the 9 years that we have lived here have we had such low temperatures for Memorial Weekend. All this last week it has been cool and we have had actual rain! Several times in the same day even. Anyway, this is the first time we didn't have swimming as a major part of this particular weekend. On Sat. I took Keddi to get her 7 year old portrait taken. As you can see, they turned out beautiful. Tersa went to a birthday party and after that she, Mardi and I went to a pottery place to make some gifts for teachers. Upon returning home, we ordered pizza and had a movie night together. On Monday we went to a 10:00 showing of "Prince Caspian" and enjoyed it quite well. We went to lunch together and then came home for some lounging around. Joel bar-b-qued some ribs for dinner and since we weren't that hungry still, all we had were ribs and cold watermelon.

Preschool Graduation

I am so glad that I enrolled Shinara into preschool this year.

Preschool was low key and only lasted for 1 1/2 hours three days a week. But she thoroughly enjoyed it and was very sad when I told her it was over last week.
The little guy in the red shirt is Radley. She thought for a long time that his name was Riley but we got it now. They were good buds and didn't like leaving each other without a hug. I met his mother because Shinara wants to have play dates with him and invite him to her birthday party this summer.

Shar was all smiles until I took this picture. She told me that the boy behind her said that it said "baby" on her certificate. That made her mad. It took a few tries to convince her that he doesn't know how to read and it did not say "baby" anywhere on her certificate!


This is Mrs. Zimet. She is the lady that supervises all of the teenage teachers and helps them organize their lessons and activities for the children. Shinara loved all of her teachers but got her picture with a few of her favorites.

I always enjoy hearing about or seeing that people enjoy my children and when we were about to leave, several of the teachers wanted hugs. After hugging only three of them, Shinara turned to me and said "Mom, I have to get my tears out." And she wiped her eyes. She is such a sweet girl and didn't like having to say goodbye. She went around the room though and one of the teachers that liked her best carried her around for a bit and then outside to say goodbye.

Keddi's Birthday

Keddi had a family birthday party this year (which always includes the Wilson's because by now, they're family!!) She got to choose her cake and ice cream. She told me that she wanted white cake with blueberries. So, I baked two white round cakes, put some cream cheese frosting (very thin layer) and blueberry pie filling (strained of a lot of the "gel") in the middle and covered the rest with Cool Whip. The pink sprinkles were added at the last moment (probably because for Keddi there just wasn't enough bling!)
She got a hula hoop (that I know Sarah Hahn would have wanted to try immediately), Sharpay Barbie doll (High School Musical) and a Littlest Pet Shop set with a Pony. From the Wilson's she received a Pocahontas Barbie (because I would only buy one Barbie and Mandy always picks up my slack!! ;) I love her!)
Keddi also received cards from Grandmas and Grandpas and is looking to spend it on My Little Pony or Princess coloring books.
Thanks to Lindsay's family for calling and to all who sent birthday wishes. She got to take cookies to her friends in her school class and she is the spotlight this week so we made a fun poster for her to display in her room and tell the other children about. It was a great day for her.

Swuimsuit line-up

Last weekend we saw three digit highs so we broke out the swim gear and went to the pool on Fri. after school and again on Sat. It has cooled all of the sudden yesturday and today and we won't see 90's until next week sometime. The girls have been chomping at the bit to go to the pool but I am glad for the return of cooler weather . Air conditioner is off and the windows are open again until the heat returns.
(Just in case you are wondering, Shinara's suit has one of those flotation devices sewn in. She calls it her "fat" suit and last year it made her a little self concious. She hasn't said anything about it yet this season.)