Cody's Preschool Graduation

Wed night was Cody's preschool graduation celebration at school. All the families come together one last night to eat a picnic dinner (we stopped for In-n-Out), visit, the kids play, and cake!

Before the festivities began, there was a lot of time to play. Tyler, being the ladies man he is, gravitated towards the older girls. Ladybugs are always a big fascination.
Ty asked, "Does that tickly on your arm?"

Later moving into the play house with one of his school friends, Ms J.

Cody latched onto the older crowd, and played around with the soccer ball.

After that it was time for the ceremony to begin.

His self portrait.

In his hat he decorated.

Ty's view point of the evening, I think he was ready to sit and rest for a bit.

Walking across the bridge to Kindy.

Teacher Debbie had flowers for the kids to give their parents, it opened up over night, so beautiful!

The throwing of the hats. (They didn't really get this part)

I'm so ready for the break, but now we have to get ready for Kindy in the fall. WOW!

Last Field Trip of the year...

Thanks goodness for a nice break to come! Don't get me wrong, I'm so glad that we have been able to find such a great preschool for the boys. I do like the fact that I can work in the classroom and participate, mainly because I have a need to know what's going on. But after a school year's worth of working once a week, babysitting once a week and parent/toddlering once a week, I need a break! Cody's last regular day is tomorrow, they get to bring their bikes which is uber cool, and Ty goes to class as normal. Monday is the holiday, Wed we have grad night at Cody's school, then Friday is a clean up day at Ty's (he get's to go and spend the whole time outside playing in the water while the mom's switch off going in to the class to clean) Then the last hooraw for the year is clean up at Cody's school on Mon. YAY!!!

Now come talk to me in about a month when I'll be begging for school to start again.

Okay, what was I posting about? Ah yes, the Fairytale Town fieldtrip. In all honesty, I really do enjoy this place and so do the boys. They can run around, climb on the structures and simply play. If you're lucky you can go at a time when they have puppet shows as well, as was the case on Wed.
Downside, it's the end of the year and this place was packed! A lot of that has to do with the big zoo across the street, so for the older kids it's a bit of a holding tank.
Besides all that, the boys seamed to have a good time, and it's always fun going with friends.

Shoe Slide

Getting ready for the puppet show, "Tale of the Dragon's Tail." I didn't realized until it stated but this is the same show we saw the only other time we've been there for a show. Weird.

The there's the fun of the crooked mile. A long and windy path, with ups and downs to simply run on. So cool.

I don't want to take a picture!

The treehouse slide.

Compelete with farm animals all around.

We'll definatly go back again this summer, and hopefully next time we can play at the amusement park as well.

For fun, the boys at 6 months and almost 3

here they are Wed at 2.5 and 5

Campout and Sunday at the Lake

As mentioned before, Cody had his camp out at preschool on Friday. He's been looking forward to it for a while, having had such a good time last year. He's been scoping out his camp site for the last month.

Hot dogs and all the typical BBQ sides.

The zip line

S'mores by the campfire

This year's treat: Piano Man Tim. He did use a guitar instead, because who's ever heard of a piano by the campfire.

Along with this fun, they made flags to hang on their tents, took a walk in the evening, hunted for glow rocks, pancakes and sausage for breakfast and another walk to the river in the morning.

Sunday we packed up and headed to Folsom Lake. The weather has turned to summer and cooling down is the name of the game. We got there around 10;30, pre-crowd, and found our spot. As soon as the sunscreen and life jackets were on, they boys hit the water and barely left it. It's not a clear lake by any means, but it was a good time.

This is how I spent most the time, standing in the water, reading my book and watching the boys. It's hot, damnit!

Snack break

Run, trip, dowsed in water.

Remember our trip in November, when we sank in the mud to our knees. See the background, no water.

I didn't get a great comparison shot, but you can see some of the ridge lines in the photo, where there is water now. Crazy to see the differences.

Parade

Keith and Cody were away this morning, last night was camp-out at preschool. Ty and I went out to breakfast and on our way home I realized it was Pow Wow days in Orangevale, and people were lining the streets. Putting two and two together, parade came to mind. Sure enough, when we were home I pulled out the flier and there it was in about 45 minutes. Sweet!
So we loaded up the bike trailer, filled our water bottles and headed off to find a good spot on the parade route, just around the corner from the house.
It was a long parade, like an hour long! But it was fun and there was candy, so no complaints.

Waiting for the fun to begin.

Finally the start of the parade, fire trucks of course.

Lots of cool cars like this...

and this...

Then came the candy...

We learned early that if he held his hand up and waved while I hooted and holard, the candy would come our way.

He made some friends with the kids next to us, successful parade fun!

Slowly rolling over to 28...

It was a good day. Bummed around Folsom, looking in shops, and had a nice gift card to spend at Bed, Bath and Beyond courtesy of my IL's. Jennifer was the sweetest thing and brought over a glorious cake for us to enjoy. Strawberry, with strawberry icing and decorated with Giant Chewy Nerds. OMG, heaven! Keith was kind and called home to see what to pick up for dinner, no cooking on my Birthday. So I went with Panda, easy and on the way, and oh so yummy.


The boys had a treat in the afternoon as well. I finally set up there dragon sprinkler they've been begging for since the end of last summer when it arrived. It was fun and just warm enough to play with!



28. Umm, wow?!?! I dont' know how I got here, really. In some ways I'm glad to not be so young anymore, but in other ways I'm so sad that my 20's are just about over. To the point of a mini panic attack Mon night when I looked at the dates on my calendar. It's all good. Or at least that's what I'm telling myself every 5 minutes.

Spring Tea

Cody's class held there annual spring tea and it was quite delightful! I realized as well that his was his first official school performance, with songs that they have been practicing for the last couple of months. Super cute.

Tyler took Keith to school today, so that was fun.

Anyway, here's our pictures and videos from the day.

Cody's School Pics

Cody's class pictures came in today and I was so excited to see them, especially after last years.
But, alas, picture gods were not showing themselves this year. It's okay, he's looking at the camera and his eyes are open. But what is that smile? It's so cheesy fake. And the chin, that's not his chin, that's my chin! Ugh, if it wasn't for the picture guy being so slow I might try to see if he had any other shots, but I'm way to lazy for that right now. So here it is.


Anyway, wanted to share. Now I must get back to school projects. May is way to busy!

Jelly Belly's!

Sunday we headed down to trade cars with my BIL and decided it would be a good chance to go to the Jelly Belly Factory. Ty's never been, but Cody has, although he was convinced that it was a different factory that we had visited before?!? Anyway, there was candy involved so everyone was happy.

Many Jelly Belly cars to see and play on.

Waiting for the tour to begin, candy is coming soon!

Didn't want to wear the hat, but had to in order to get his candy. Grumpy!

Yay! Free Candy!

Out front, they were convinced it would fall down, then disappointed they couldn't jump in him. Goof balls!

Ty's 1st School Pictures

Ty's first ever school pictures came in last week when we were away, so I was excited to see them at school on Friday. Ramona sent me a note saying Ty and I "made" the group shot, so I didn't know what to think. Come to find out, this is how we are in a majority of the group shots that were passed out:

He hates organized pictures! But other than us, everyone else is smiling and looking forward.
Luckily we had another to choose from, so this is the one I'll hang on their wall, he's not smiling, but at least you can see his face! Other than that, there is just the little one trying to escape the front row.
I was pleasantly surprised to see his individual shots. He would barely come out from behind the tree, so I was a bit nervous about dropping the cash for nothing. But the photographer said he was sure he had a couple of good shots, and he did.


So he through in a few of each, probably not sure of what "mood" I thought would be best. It's Tyler, in all his 2 year old essence.

Now we wait for Cody's to arrive. Same photographer, and in being there that day, I saw some great shots.

Maybe we should take Ty more than once a year for pictures, poor second kid!

Oh Mr Sun...

It's late Spring in Cali...