Last Day of Kindergarten-

Ben had a great school year and learned soooo much. I can't believe we have a FIRST GRADER in our house!! Here he is at the end-of-the-year picnic with his class and an impromptu hug with all the Night Owl boys (Ben is near his teacher in the top photo and beyond the red head in the second photo). Happy summer!

2012 Grandkids Photo-

Here is our attempt to get a photo of the grandkids for Bebe's birthday. It was tricky and we almost lost Maggie in the lake (Aunt Anne's fault ... sorry Mags, love you!). But in the end we got one shot.

... and here they are from almost the same weekend in 2011. My how they've grown!

Let's get caught up!

 Ben is really into **MAGIC** these days.

He would love to show you one of his tricks.

 Happy 3rd Birthday Miss Maggie McK!

 Nora only wants to feed herself, and it's usually super messy!

It was a Happy Mother's Day for this mama!

Easter

 Attempt #105 of our family photo ...

 Ben got Grandad's memo to be twins for the day!

Nora found her Easter basket right away.

 It took Ben a few hours to find his basket.

(it was hanging under coats on the hall tree ... that silly Easter Bunny!)

 Nora loves her swing time with Bubba & Grampy!

Walking!

She's a busy girl!!

Uncle's birthday & Eggs

 Grandad reads to his girls - they LOVE to read!

 Uncle dreaming up the PERFECT wish...

 We dyed our Easter eggs - the kids got into it this year

(too bad for me and Auntie - we love some egg dyin'!)

Two of Ben's favorite eggs - he was into multi-layering the colors and adding white crayon to the different layers. What a little artist!

Randomness-

Ben is really into St. Patrick's Day and leprechauns ... he magically found a tiny bag of coins and a green rock while on a leprechaun hunt at the park with Bubba (unfortunately he never did catch a leprechaun). I saw this idea on Pinterest and thought Ben would get a kick out of having a leprechaun visit our house and leave little footprints on the toilet and green "pee." I did this the night before St. Pat's and he saw it first thing in the morning ... it was PERFECT for a 6-year-old boy. He was like "GROOOOSSSSS! A leprechaun went to the bathroom here." It was quickly followed by an "AWESOME, HE PEES GREEN!!!"

I have no idea what these two were looking at, but they sure looked cute!

Nora is quite the ham in front of the camera! She has 8 teeth, two molars on the bottom and two more coming up top. Some of her favorite words are Dada, Doggie, Hello (while pretending to talk on the phone), Night-Night, and All Done. She understands a lot and will follow simple directions - bring me your cup, can i have a hug, wave bye-bye, it's bath time (she LOVES this). She also loves going to pick up Ben from the school bus. She sees the bus coming down the street and she starts squealing and flapping her arm - it's pretty sweet she's excited to see her big brother! She also started walking April 1 ... more on that later!