While I stayed home with an ailing Abby, Lisa took Annika and Jake to Tulip Time in Holland with Mark and Lizzy. We have an outfit that fits Annika and was quite appropriate for the occasion. Can you guess the main ethnicity of her ancestry?
Jake, sporting six teeth now, gets his teeth brushed for the first time:
It's been interesting to see what sort of landscaping we inherited at our new house, since we moved in during late fall. We did get a few nice bushes. This azalea bloomed nicely some weeks ago, while two large rhododendrons are doing their thing in the backyard right now.
There's been a lot of activity in the yard as the weather warmed up. We are somewhat centrally located among the houses that have kids in the neighborhood, and we have one of the flattest front yards. At my last count, there are 2+2+3+3+2+4 = 16 kids in 5th grade or below on our relatively short street, and our neighbors have 4 kids, but in middle school and above. Here's a scene from a recent T-ball game in our front yard:
We started and finished T-ball at Millbrook already, too. Abby was a little young for it, but finally managed to run the bases without any help during the last game. She didn't frequently feel the need to hustle from one base to the other, but she made it eventually. Once she made it most of the way from third to home hopping on one foot. Annika, on the other hand, has officially graduated from Millbrook T-ball. She was easier to get nice pictures of:
Lastly, I've been mowing the lawn, and got some help from the girls this day. Watch for both of them to pump their arms and say "Choo choo!"
Other than that, Lisa and the girls have less than 3 weeks left of school. I'm mostly at home, we've started a few house projects, and we're making vacation plans.
1 comment:
What cute photos!
Three weeks of school left?? Holy cow, that seems late! When I was growing up in Germantown, we always got out of school the second week of May.
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