Easter Egg Hunt

Another year another egg hunt thrown up at St. Paul's. This year, Rick wasn't the bunny, but he did help me stuff and hide eggs. Along with 10 boyscouts who were playing volleyball and got wrangled into hiding eggs.

Abby and Addie and their stash, Adeline you better give Abby some of your eggs

Hurray a GOLDEN EGG, only problem..... it was empty. I had hidden $1 bills inside the golden eggs and it looks like the boyscouts discovered that as well. So, poor Emma was shorted a dollar by a crappy boyscout.

Like a duck in water

Adeline started her first swimming lessons at the ripe old age of 4. Up until this time, she won't let Rick or I touch her, or try to help her learn how to swim. But, maybe sweet swim instructor Mr. John was gentle and reassuring.

Ok make waves everyone, I guess Mr. John could do this everyday and twice on Tuesday. He looks very bored

Adeline koala-beared him the entire time in the water

You can't tell here, but the water temperature was a cool 78 degrees and poor skinny , no fat on her bones, Adeline was shaking the whole time with blue lips, until the instructor took her to a hot water enema machine and turned it on full blast

See the fear in those little eyes, but don't worry Addie, Mr. John won't let anything happen to you

kick Adeline kick

Girls and their hats

Emma has this pink plaid Fedora hat that she uses for her Magic Shows, as a dress up hat for when she is a secret spy and just to look ultra cool out on the town. However, the hat brought her some bad luck this past Saturday. She was riding her bike downhill while wearing her hat, the hat started blowing off in the wind, she broke too hard, fell over the handle bars and in the process broke her left arm. We didn't realize it was broken until Monday afternoon, when after 2 days of cradling her arm and complaining of pain, we got the x-rays and confirmed that it indeed was a "buckle fracture". This new cast will be on for a month and then she will be as a good as new.

Adeline and Abigail- the best rootiest tootiest friends this side of Snakehollow Gulch

Just watch out for Bad Bart, Adeline, sitting next to you ready for his trusty sidekick Stinky Pete to steal the fabulous looking cowboy boot cookies.

Violet's Dad made and decorated these cookies- believe it or not!

Outside they had Cowboy Don show the kids how to lasso a baby cow and then got to ride a horse. Adeline came home telling both Rick and I that she rode the white horse. Turns out from her teacher, that she didn't ride ANY horse, she was a chicken little, just like a Parrish

Serious about getting those stripes

Tiger Rock has become our new favorite place to get out our aggressions. Mr. John is the instructor and is fabulous with the kids. Here Emma is practicing her kicks, she tells me the different kinds, crescent kick, high kick

Not to be outdone, Reece also prepares to murderlize the sand column he is envisioning as his writing homework. His hair was butchered a week earlier by our favorite barber, Armondo. Darn you Armondo, you went too short

Since this picture, Emma has gone on to earn her "forms" stripe and her "escapes" stripe. She just needs her stances and she'll be ready to test for her yellow belt.

Look at that monkey claw of a left hand. We went to Chick-fil-A for dinner after class and the cashier told Emma he wouldn't want to meet her in a dark alley. He also brought our tray of food to the table making the airplane noises with his mouth and said " coming in for a landing", so I think mom wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley either

Pirates Invade Preschool-Ahoy

Here is pirate Gus with 2 little pirateers that he discovered hiding out in Miss Meg's classroom. They made treasure maps, anchors and had a pirate snack.

Here is our littlest pirate Adeline, waiting with dread and fear of Pirate Gus about to arrive. Even though, she sees him almost every day as Mr. Gus, there is something about a Dad in a pirate hat that sends shivers in a preschooler.

When Pirate Gus arrives, he pounds on the door to announce his arrival and see the surprise on the little boys face next to Adeline.

Pirate Abigail has no fear, as the pirate is her Dad. Adeline doing her morning circle time as she waits for the pirate to land

What we do when the weather is nice

Walk the neighborhood or as I refer to it, pushing the lazy heffalumps who are too big to be a stroller anymore

Go to the beach- this Sunday afternoon we headed to Navarre and let the kids just dig and play

Awww those girls just love their Dad

Adeline and her best friend Abigail at a birthday party. They managed to avoid all the birthday festivities except present opening time, just so they could become mothers and push babies around the house

Can you just see this girl as a teenager in a few years, headphones in, shades on and too cool for her parents

See you at the Tournament Danielson.....

The seven qualities that define Tae Kwon Do are shouted out loud at the beginning of every class. Honor.. Courtesy...Integrity...Perserverance...strength..courage...and knowledge.

Also, laughter...friendship...goofing...and hilariousness

Trying for her "forms" stripe. The red stripe that will forever be just out of her grasp

....going to live forever....knowing together ... that we did it all..for the glory of love

After days and days of practice and doing her forms with her Dad, she

apparently started on the wrong foot, thereby, finishing on the wrong foot.

I don't think Mr. Miaagi was ever this hard on a first time learner.

Listening to Mr. John the Dojo Master reveal Confucius's secret of life

After Emma tried for a stripe, Reece raised his hand, why, no one knows. He didn't know the steps, moves or routine. I think he just was caught up in the moment.