Lucy's Dance Recital

 Lucy's big dance recital was tonight.  She has been working all year on these dances for this performance tonight.  She did a ballet to "Cinderella's Wedding Ball" and a tap dance to "Happy Dancing Pony".  The pony dance was so awesome. They pretended to be ponies and even did gallops. Pretty cute. Lucy did a great job with her dances and enjoyed taking dance this past year. Edyn is by far the biggest fan of Lucy's dancing and insists on wearing her "pretty" while watching videos of Lucy's dance recital.  She's memorized some of the steps and can follow along pretty well.

Isak Man

 Isak turned 7 today. SEVEN! He loves to play board games with me, especially when he wins.  He will read anything he can get his hands on and his favorite books currently are the eyewitness science books and the national geographic book on space and the universe.  But he hates to write although it has gotten better through first grade, its definitely not his favorite.  He loves minecraft on the Xbox and asked for a minecraft party for his birthday.  He likes to play with Legos and build stuff as well as play with Lucy and her littlest pet shop stuff.  He loves his baby brother and is a great helper.  One of his favorite things to do is help me juice stuff and make different combinations of flavors.  He also likes to do science experiments and we usually have something on the kitchen counter that is in some stage of research.

Isak's first grade luau was pretty awesome.  This has been going on for over 30 years, even Kevin did this 26 years ago!  They learned several dances to different songs, Isak's class used shells to do their songs and they practiced for about a month before.  Sadly there was a sudden downpour before they could do their final dance and the hula but we got some pretty great videos nonetheless!

Kids and Quinn

 My big baby and my little baby.  Quinn is about 2 months here.

 Isak thought it was hilarious to put his baseball hat on Quinn before his game one Saturday.

 Edyn loves to lay on Quinn when he's in his bouncer and say "Quinny!" in a very high voice.

 This kid has a lot of tea parties and dress up in his future with two big sisters.

 He's so cute.  Love this sweet baby boy.

Isak's 7th Birthday

 My Isak turned seven today.  I brought ice cream cups to school and he got to show Quinn to all the kids in his class. He requested a Minecraft birthday party so I did the best I could..first we had a "potion" table where we made Gak out of borax and glue.

 They had to make sure to follow the directions exactly or it wouldn't mix right. We had to throw one batch out into the garden that didn't work.

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Next we did the classic mentos in diet coke experiment which was a huge hit. I had three bottles of Coke when we did it and the kids thought it was super awesome.

 We also played pin the tail on the Minecraft pig.

 The kids had cupcakes and ice cream for dessert.  They had to go on a scavenger hunt to find the cupcakes though the house that eventually led them to the fridge in the basement.

 There was also an Agast pinata I made out of a box that Kevin was brave enough to hold for the kids to hit.

 We had our family party that night and Isak requested TimeOut pizza for dinner.  After eating there, we came back to the house for cake and presents.  The Minecraft cake didn't quite turn out like I thought but Isak still loved it and it was still edible.

 Isak got lots of great presents. A MineCraft book, Minecraft figures and legos, battling robots, new StarWars Lego book, marshmallow guns, pottery wheel and money.  I think he had a pretty great day!

Piano Recital

 Isak's piano recital was tonight, He played two songs. Old McDonald had a song and Can you hear the Echo. Isak started taking lessons in February and was his teacher's newest student at the recital.  He got one of the "best practicer awards" and did a great job playing his songs! He's enjoyed learning piano even though he doesn't always love having to practice before he does other things during the day.  He's going to take lessons through the summer and hopefully continues to enjoy learning about it. Its been fun watching him grow and learn new things!

 We are LOVING the warm spring weather outside lately.  And we are also loving having cousins here to play with outside!   My sweet Lucy is getting so big. I can't believe she is starting Kindergarten this fall. I love that she has such an opinion on what she wears, what matches, how her hair should be done and what bows she wants in her hair.  She loves to shop with me and go along with me to the store and to yard sales. Definitely my kind of girl.

Quinn Newborn Pictures

My friend Wendy took some newborn pictures of Quinn when he was three days old.  She did a great job and I love that I have these precious pictures too look back on. 

 I just love this kids crazy hair. It gives him so much personality.  He is such a sweet, mild mannered baby.  Now if he could start sleeping through the night, we'd be good!