Flashback

Our old computer died right before Conference and the new one came with Windows. We decided to try it out, having been using Linux for the last 8? 9? years, and while it is useful for many things (mostly watching Netflix) it's a pain to use because I can't find anything. I'm also not too sure I want to put my pictures on here and because of that all the pictures I've taken in the last month and a half are still firmly on the camera card. I've decided to bypass Windows, though, and just stick them straight on here because I'm tired of not being able to post stuff.

~Easter~

We pulled out the colors and dippers and aprons for egg dying, but this year we got to try out a cool kit for putting metallic foil on your eggs. It was super sticky but the kids had a great time. The eggs turned out really pretty, too. (As a note of warning, when peeling the eggs, afterward, you have to be sure to rinse everything, including your hands, or you'll end up eating foil.)

James did a great job finding eggs, he just didn't want any. We managed to convince him to put the first one in his bucket, but he'd get upset if you tried to give him any more.


The bigger kids were expert egg hunters, though, and had a great time looking around for new additions to their growing hoards.


As a side-note, I am amazed by how small my tomato plants are in this picture. They've reached jungle proportions, by now.

~Playing with Doorknobs~

I tried to get one with his hand on the knob, but he was being too sneaky to get caught with photographic evidence.

~The End of Kindergarten~

(round one)

The school year is winding down. Elena has made a ton of friends, discovered that boys can be really weird, become one of the librarian's best customers, fallen in love with Magic Treehouse books, rocked the Read-a-Thon with 1204 pages in just 12 days, become a Marathon Kids finisher, studied the anatomy and life cycles of ladybugs and butterflies, learned some basic Spanish, and figured out multiplication. She's getting ready for next week's field day(s), right now, so be on the lookout for more on that.

~Look, Ma! No Fingers!~

There's no picture here because, well, there's nothing to see. And that makes me very happy, indeed. About a month ago, we realized that we hadn't seen Joseph sucking his fingers in a while. He wasn't nodding off with fingers in his mouth, he wasn't sucking them at random moments in the day, and he wasn't using them to feel better after some injury or disappointment. Even better, the skin had dried up and wasn't peeling off, anymore. Hooray!