Butterfly Exhibit

A traveling exhibit about butterflies is at our local museum for the summer, and the kids and I visited one extremely hot and humid day to escape the heat. It was a ton of fun, and we'll definitely be going back.

Here is Rebecca being careful not to touch the "hairs" of the caterpillar.


Here is Ryan pretending to fly like a butterfly on a modified zip line.

Here is Becca showing off her pretty colors and trying to get a mate!

The kids are climbing on a spider web of sorts- trying not to get caught by the spider!

In their cocoons!

Grandmommy

When Grandmommy comes for a visit, ineveitably, the kids end up snuggled on the couch with her to read a good book. I have dozens of pictures of the kids with my mom on a couch or a chair o a bed reading books. Both kids tell me that reading books with Grandmommy is their favorite thing to do together.

Wiles Water Day

The last week of school, the Kindergarten classes have a Water Day. There were 7 stations set up around the Kindergarten building all with different themes. The kids had sooo soo much fun splashing and squirting each other, but by far the favorite station was the shaving cream station where the kids smothered themselves in shaving cream.

Last day of Kindergarten

Parents were invited to come in to Becca's class on the last day of Kindergarten for a little presentation. The kids all sand "I've been Going to Kindergarten" to the tune of "She'll be Comin Round the Mountain." Then, each child came to the rocking chair and read a piece they wrote about their favorite thing about Kindergarten. Rebecca's was catching the big catfish at the fisheries a few weeks earlier.



Rebecca had a WONDERFUL Kindergarten year and a WONDERFUL Kindergarten teacher. Rebecca cried several times during the last week of school because she was so sad about not being able to see her teacher and friends. After school let out, I would often catch her staring at the class picture and then walk away moping. We can only hope that next year she has such a positive experience.

Becca's Ballet Recital

Becca's ballet class performed a piece to "Favorite Things" from Sound of Music. Grandmommy flew down from CT just to see it, and we all thought that Becca was a beautiful ballerina. Sorry the video isn't any better...Becca is one of the tallest kids in the group- so not too hard to find in there. I'm not sure that she loves ballet- she could take or leave it I think. So, we're thinking about maybe trying something else this year like gymnastics. She did LOVE watching all the other dancers, and Grandmommy and Becca and I stayed till the very end of the performance to watch all the performances.

Panama City Beach trip

For Memorial Day weekend, we joined Art's Uncle Tom and Aunt Kathy in Panama City Beach along with three teenagers they brought along. The weather started out dreadful--it rained pretty much all day Friday and Saturday, but both days we had a couple hours of sun both days, and all day Sunday and Monday thank goodness. The kids LOVED hanging out with Tom and Kathy and the big kids almost as much as they loved going to the beach.

Becca at the Fisheries

Rebecca's class recently took a field trip to the UF Fisheries. The kids all got a chance to fish, and because it was such an overcast day, all the kids caught 3 or more fish. Rebecca caught the biggest one of all- a CATFISH! Boy was she excited, and couldn't wait to call Daddy to tell him.