Shoe Obsession

Greta LOVES shoes.  Loves to put them on and off.  Loves to walk around in them.  Loves her shoes.  Her siblings shoes.  Anyones shoes.  She stomps around in them with a new found confidence.  She also loves her big sister.  And therefore loves to copy her big sis.  Wearing Layla's dress up shoes allows her to enjoy her two favorite things together.  Makes me wonder if she'll always share the same interests of her sister.

 Matching girls in their fancy dress up shoes...

First Dance Recital is in the Books!

Layla had her first dance recital today and did great!  All the girls in her group did great!  Almost all of them missed one part, but you wouldn't even notice if you didn't know their routine:).

 

With her friends Sophia, Addison and Elise...

 All of her dance friends...Sophia, (then Layla), Elise, Parker, Ella, Addison, Ellery and Lydia.  I had a good time every Monday chatting with these girls' moms and getting to know them.  Sophia and Addison will be in Kindergarten next year at ZCS too!

 Sophia and Layla are in the same preschool class together...

 She was so excited to get flowers from Grampy and Gigi and Heidi, Rachael and Grandpa and Grandma...

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Garage and Septic

Things are moving along at the house.  The septic went in Tuesday and Wednesday and today the painters calked the trim.  Tuesday night, Layla and Joe went to plant a tree in our front yard.  She was really excited that she'll be able to see the tree from her bedroom and was also very excited about the tag that comes with the tree that shows what it will look like when it blossoms.  She really likes flowers and learning about when they bloom and such.  Joe took this picture of her which I thought it was cute that in all the pictures he took of her, she was holding the tree tag up in every one:).  She also showed me that tag right away when they got home:). 

I did not know what it looks like to put a septic in.  Now I do:).  Here it is in progress...

And here it is complete and covered up...

 The kids love playing in all the dirt...should be a nice and muddy summer:).  Just what you want in a new house, ha!  Pretty sure they will be having lots of baths!

 We got the garage primed on Saturday.  Joe started, then the kids and I stopped by and saw how long it was taking, so I brought Greta home and came back with Gibs and Layla so that I could paint too.  Then Mike came and then my dad showed up.  It definitely goes a lot quicker with help!  The ceiling probably needs another coat of primer and we'll have to paint the walls, but for now it at least looks better than it did:). 

A Girl and Her Bike

I love this girl.  It has been so cute to see how proud of herself she is now riding without training wheels and how much fun she has doing it.  She was speeding down the hills in Gavin's backyard yesterday like she's been riding forever:).  I was surprised she wanted to, normally she is pretty reserved with things, but she wanted to go and down she went.  I admit, I was a little surprised when she coasted down successfully and then kept pedaling.  I noticed that she hadn't been putting her dolls in the back of her bike since taking her training wheels off--I think she was afraid that if her bike tipped, they'd fall out and get dirty/hurt.  Today she took them for lots of rides--she must be gaining confidence in her abilities:). 

Mother's Tea

During the end of Layla's preschool this morning, the moms were invited to come for a special "Mother's Tea".  It was very sweet.  They  each brought out their own tray with fruit kabobs that they had each prepared along with a necklace that they made for us--a heart shaped pendant with their finger print in the middle of the heart.  They also sang a song and we had some "book look" (reading books) time together.  I love having one on one time with my special almost kindergartener!!

Sentinel

Gavin, Harper and Gibs all got their pictures taken by the Sentinel last week while we scrubbed streets and were on their website...

I Like the Flowers

Layla had her first ever dress rehearsal tonight for her dance recital that she is in on Saturday.  I was thinking this would be our only year doing dance, but she really does seem to love it.

 All the little girlies were so cute to watch.  And the older girls were really good!  We stayed for quite a bit of the dress rehearsal so that Layla could watch the other dancers since on Saturday, the dancers are not allowed in the auditorium.

Here they are doing their "boom dee ah da"'s in the "I Like the Flowers" song.  I had never heard it before, but it's pretty catchy:-).  It even makes Harper and Greta start bobbing up and down:-).

 Watching the other performers...