Pre-school graduation!!

"Watch me as I graduate... as I march around the room.  Kindergarten's coming soon and it's time to graduate.. It's really great!"

Yes, I officially graduated pre-school!!  We had a pretty awesome graduation if you can't tell..

let's see - first we got to show off our "boards", then we all got on stage and did a class cheer.. the we sang 4 songs on stage (along with hand gestures and dancing of course :)..  "Doe a Deer", "All I really Need", Matilda the Gorilla and "Watch me as I Graduate" (which I sang to you above)  

My yiayia loved the this one though..

"All I really need is a song in my heart, food in my belly, and love in my family"

I tend to sing it alot (it gets stuck in my head!!)

BJ the clown closed the show and he was super silly... then it was time to party!! bouncy houses, popsicles, face painting .. isn't that how all pre-school graduations go?

Oh - and of course the perfect end - a Team Hustle pool party at Nico's house!!

We partied hard in the pool (even though it was 60 and raining...)  didn't slow us down!

Happy Father's Day!

Lucky us we got to hang out with dad AND papou on Father's day!

we were sure to keep dad on his toes!!

Berry picking - round 1

Strawberry picking requires some serious teamwork.  Caitlyn learned this the hard way... after claiming she could pull the wagon herself ("I can do it myself").. she quickly figured out she actually did need my help.. you should have seen how far we pushed that wagon!!  the berry patch was the far end of the farm but it didn't slow us down a bit...  plus we got to re-fuel with berries when we got there :)

and what would a trip to the farm be without a hay ride!!

Black Butte rocks!

My friend Chloe has a cabin at Black Butte Ranch and invited us to come stay with her... I LOVE hanging out at her cabin - it's pretty much non-stop fun..  park in the morning, pool all day, walks to spot deer in the afternoon.. and dinner's outside on the patio..   I could spend every day there!!

This trip was super fun because Yiayia and Papou came with us and Uncle John and Aunt Jennifer met us there...  and do you know how we got there?  we all rode together in a mini-van!!  (we= me, Chloe, Caitlyn, Carson, Katie and mommy)

It's hard to decide but I think my favorite was the pool - I spent lots of time practicing my swimming in the deep water and working on my dive (which made my mom really excited for some reason?? :)  Chloe and I liked doing twists and trying to flip under water too (see did lots of flips!)  As for Caits, she was pretty proud of herself for putting her whole head under water (she would take a BIG breath, then go all the way under..go Caits!) and she also thought it was pretty fun to be thrown in the air... she kept wanting to go higher and higher!   oh - and I did I mention we got to have ice cream at the pool?  double bonus!

 

Mother's Day climbing trip

My mom and some of her friends love to climb so for Mother's Day weekend we headed to Smith Rock to play in the sun and try to do some climbing!

We had all sorts of fun riding and camping in the van, climbing on the rocks and most of all playing in the river (you gotta cool down somehow right?)

I think my mom had fun too she climbed super high and waved to us from the top!

I've been kind of nervous to climb on the ropes so I was takin' some time to learn (ie watch :). But I told my mom that I think I'm ready to practice just hanging in the harness - we'll start there :).

Art show!

We spend lots of time at school making beautiful art work... So our teachers had us do an art show!

I wrote a story about Mazie and painted a picture of her because I love her :)

Caitlyn made this BIG poster. She got to wear BIG shoes and stomp all over the paper. This was project was right up her alley!!

 Our class also worked together to write a whole book!    The "is" book.  We also got to choose an activity and act it out.. then we wrote our own page (and worked out the spelling of the activity ourselves too!)  Here's my page :)   If you like this - you'll love "When Harry met Coran"  that was our first book - i'll have to share it with you one day!