Becca's broken arm

So, we couldn't get an appointment to have her arm set in a splint until 4 days after she had broken it. By the time we went to the appointment, she was barely using the sling anymore, and had regained a lot of mobility in her arm. The doctor didn't seem all that convinced that she needed a splint, but Becca was VERY excited to get one, and he suggested she wear one for two weeks. Um, I can report she wore it for exactly 4 days before abandoning it completely. Now, it does hurt her if she bangs it, or y'know, her brother attacks her with his light saber, but other than, she's pretty well recovered.

Anyhow, here we are waiting to get the splint put on. I took this one myself.



Becca got the camera and snapped a few of us...

Here she is getting the splint molded to her arm. Notice the look on her face. Such AGONY...can you tell?

And she got to choose her own colors, and opted for rainbow. The next day at school, she reported to me that so many people asked her what happened to her arm and that she got so much attention that it was "annoying." I was speechless. Never, NEVER! has she gotten so much attention that it was annoying. She LOVES getting attention. So funny.

The Cellon Oak Incident

After we went to the strawberry patch, we went to explore the Cellon Oak, which is about amile up the road and purports to be the largest oak tree in Florida. The kids LOVED being monkeys, climbing all over the low lying limbs. The top picture shows the kids on the tree. The limb Becca is on, is the same one she fell of when she broke her arm. She was having a lot of fun till then...

Strawberry Patch

A few weeks back we went to pick strawberries at a local patch with our friends from playgroup. This was our first time, and we ALL loved it! So much so that we each filled our buckets with juicy, sweet ripe strawberries and left with almost 15 pounds of strawberries that day! I tried to get a snapshot of the kids and the patch. Both of them got it in their heads to say "Happy Strawberry Day!" which made it challenging to take a natural looking picture of them. I implored them to not say "Happy Strawberry Day" and instead if they could just pretty please point their heads in the direction of the camera, that would be awesome. No such luck. This is the best of 5 shots I took that day.

TBall

We signed Ryan up for TBall this year. There is a league through the city for 4-6 year olds. Art got rooked into being Head Coach as well. Ryan LOVES it, and spends an hour a day in the back yard practicing. Sometimes by himself. After a few practices, Becca decided to join the team as well, which was great, and a lot easier on us as a family actually. She is one of two girls on the team. Our first game was last week. No-one keeps score, and no-one gets out. The kids are allowed to run all the bases, even if technically they get "out." Every kid gets to bat every inning. The kids had lots of fun, and are looking forward to the next game. We are playing a game every Saturday afternoon, and starting next month, we have a game every Monday night as well! I'll try to get some pics of the game to share soon. My camera battery died shortly after taking these pictures last week...

Kindergarten Patriotic Play

Becca's Kindergarten teacher Miss Brochu, wrote and directed this year's Kindergarten production, titled, "A Patriotic Play." There are 7 Kindergarten classes at Becca's school, and there about 140 Kindergarteners in all. Becca did a great job learning the words to 8 different songs, plus the 3 sentence presentation by her class. Plus, she looked so adorable in the patriotic outfit!

Happy Birthday Ryan

Well, this year, I decided to go with the flow, and invite the whole gang to Ryan's birthday party. Almost everyone from playgroup came (totaling 12 kids not including mine) plus 8 kids from Ryan's school, plus 5 more friends. Whew! We had the party at our neighborhood playground and pavilion, which was really great and convenient. The best part of the party was that Magic Mike came to do a show for us. Ryan is a HUGE fan of Magic Mike. He could be a stalker if he was able to drive a car. Magic Mike is a local magician and entertainer. He does performances at the library periodically, and we never miss a show. He also works at several local restaurants during the week, and we often catch him there as well. Magic Mike does a great job entertaining the kids as well as the grownups, and as you can see from the expression on Ryan's face, he belly laughed the ENTIRE time. He had a great time at the party. Unfortunately, the wind was out of control, and we were not able to keep the candles lit for his cake, so once again, no picture of Ryan blowing candles out. He didn't really care about that though- just the part where he got to eat the cake!

Monkeys

These are my children. They look like monkeys, but they are actually my children.