Sisters Playing

Sophie and Olivia have such a great relationship right now (I say this because eventually I expect fights....). Sophie is a great big sister, and loves to play with Olivia. Olivia can't keep her eyes off her big sister and laughs loudest at Sophie. I knew Sophie would be a great helper, and I am so glad that we gave her a little sis. Here are the two of them playing yesterday.

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Sophie's Last day of Kindergarten

A Beautiful almost First Grader.
Proud papa and his two girls.
Proud mama and her two girls.
Last glance.
Jumping for joy. I don't have to pack a lunch for three months.


Can you believe it? I don't. Sophie's last day of Kindergarten is today. She is excited to go to the pool this summer and to become a first grader, but more so she is sad to leave Kindergarten. She told Grandma "I want to be in Kindergarten forever!" You know what, I'd like to be in Kindergarten forever too. Anyway, here are some pictures from this year and a few we took this morning.

Pincers

Olivia has become quite a good food eater. She is enjoying most everything she's tried so far. Here is a quick video of her eating bread. I love the sounds kids make when they are learning to eat.

Fun with the Cannons

On Friday night, we had the Cannons (Reed, Heidi and crew) over for dinner. We had such a nice time visiting with our "cannon-in-laws". Sophie and Maia even ended up designing a new house that was a combination of our two homes so that we could just open the garage doors and be connected. I hope that we get together more often!

P.S. This post is intended to make another Cannon, one who is a blood relative of mine very jealous.

Tree monkeys

On Mother's Day we had lunch with Mom and Dad, and afterward we went outside to play. Sophie wanted to climb up in the tree, so Matt helped her get up and down, and he playfully climbed up too (in flip-flops!). Olivia was safe inside of the back of Grandpa's carpeted pick-up. Here are some fun pictures from Sunday. I have to say, it was a great Mother's Day. I got to take a nap.

Big girl bites.

So much fun, Olivia has started eating real food. We've done the rice cereal, oatmeal cereal, barley cereal, most of the pureed fruits and veggies, and her pincers are starting to work, so we are moving up. CHEERIOS.....yippee. Here is Olivia eating banana mush from her personal food musher. (Really a great invention until it must be cleaned) Next we have Olivia trying to get Cheerios, and finally a nice drink of water, super sideways. So far she really enjoys feeding herself. Of course I am totally biased, but when she eats the food, she puts it where her "teeth" are and it is soooo cute. She chews it up by gumming the food bits to death.

Sophie's Garden

Sophie has her own garden this year, Nan sent her some bulbs and we had bought some wildflower seeds to plant too. Here are some pictures of Sophie's gardening fun. I've also included a picture of a punishment she had a few days ago; weeding. I personally hate weeding, it is just horrible. For some reason, in New Mexico we have the most aggressive drought tolerant weeds ever. These suckers might as well be carrots for they grow at least ten times longer roots than leaves. So, we thought that a suitable punishment for a few naughty behaviors was weeding, one of the true evils of home ownership.

GGma & GGPa visit

GreatGrandma Midge and GreatGrandpa Bill visited us this last weekend on their way home from LHC, AZ. It was so nice to see them. Sophie had a great time reading books and playing with her GGparents. Olivia gave lots of smiles to them as well. We went to a craft fair on Saturday and got to meet with Monique and Karina.

See my teeth...

Tonight we had a little extra time after Sophie went to bed. Matt had just finished reading her a story and she was so happy, grinning and laughing (especially when I pull out the camera). Anyway, if you look closely you can see her two bottom teeth.

Caution: baby nudity.....Bathtime bubbles

I love giving Olivia a bath. She loves the water, especially splashing Mommy! The other night I filled the bath aka sink with bubbles and here is what ensued: Ohh, I like bubbles
This is lots of fun
Bubble goatee
Bubble hat. Yippee.

Matt's Parenting Style

What a great idea, let's watch daddy play God of War.

Poetry Recital

Yesterday Sophie had her poetry recital at school. She did a FANTASTIC JOB! In my opinion, she was one of only three kids you could actually understand. After the recital, at Mom's house, I took a couple of cute picks of the girls.