The Toothless Wonder

Eric has been waiting and waiting to lose his first tooth. I feel so sorry for Kindergarten teachers. This apparently happens daily, because I have heard about it almost daily for the last 3 months. Carson lost a tooth, Alex lost a tooth, Ben lost a tooth. Finally it was Eric's tooth. He wanted to lose it at school because the nurse gives them a cool tooth container but alas, it did not work out that way. Here he is with his first lose tooth. You can see that the other one next to it is all ready coming in so, just 2 days later, out came the one next to it.

Homemaking skills

For Activity Days the week before mother's day, the girls had a mother-daughter activity where Sarah learned how to sew a pillow case. Kate was sick that day. She was so excited. She has helped me cut out pattern pieces before but hadn't used the machine yet. I got a new sewing machine and she wants me to let her have my old one. I love how excited she gets to do new things.



Sarah has been wanting me to teach her how to knit. I decided to teach her how to crochet first so she could learn the hand posititon easier. I taught her the chain stitch and as most of you who crochet know, when you learn how to chain stitch, you don't stop. She kept going until she ran out of yarn. Now I just need to teach her the next step.

Sarah's Birthday

Sarah turned 9yrs old on Apr 28th. She is so full of spirit. She has the best laugh. She has always been our child to laugh a lot since she was born. She is our little entrepreneur, gymnast, pianist, and teacher. These are all things Sarah is very good at. She has the cutest way of giving you the Puppy Dog eyes when she wants something and it always makes me smile. Sarah, I love you!
Sarah got bit by the Earth Day bug this year. She wanted to go down to the Cedar River behind our house and pick up trash. We took two trash bags with us, one for trash and the other for recycling. Would you believe we filled them both up. I'm so happy she cares about our Earth. We had a nice family walk down to the river and it didn't take much to just carry the trash bags back home. Thanks Sarah!

Tiptoe Through the Tulip Festival

Shortly after Easter we heard they had a Tulip Festival up north of where we live. We decided to check it out. It was so beautiful. Not all of the tulips were quite ready but the daffodils were amazing. We did finally find some tulip fields with blossoms ready. Daddy said the kids couldn't tiptoe through them though because there were signs everywhere that said not to.

Easter

O.K. so I know Easter was three months ago but it has been really busy at our house. We have two playing baseball now and Justin was running track also. This was such a nice family picture after we got home from church on Easter that I had to post it. BJ's Aunt Mary and Uncle Mike came over and my cousin Cody and his wife and kids also came.