Spring Joy

 Adrian

He wants to go outside so often, and luckily, most of the time we can go outside and enjoy the beautiful weather. He was even the first person in the driver's seat of our new side-by-side! He has his moments when he wants to cuddle, usually right after waking up, and I get to enjoy the short time of him sitting calmly instead of jumping on me or play-hitting me. He also took a nap on me in church today during the 2nd hour, and I was surprised because that doesn't happen often. I wasn't able to enjoy it as much as I would have if I had been comfortable at home. Out of nowhere, he learned how to kiss! It is the sound and not when we do kisses at night, but now that he mimics the sound, I've had him start kissing back when he gets kisses from the girls or daddy. I also get free time during the day when he is playing with his toys or exploring, and have been able to design and finish a project for the girls' teachers as gifts for their wonderful job. I hope they like it since it's the first full project I've designed and framed.

Claire

We had a pretty normal week, and something in her brain has clicked during homework this week that made her so much better at spelling words. Daddy did it with her one night, and all of a sudden, she is able to remember her spelling words this week! I guess changing things up helps, and we have new strategies to help her, and I've been looking for workbooks to use over the summer. I don't know if she feels the end of school coming and will be emotional about not seeing her teacher and friends anymore. I remember last year it hit her hard the last day of school, and she was sad off and on throughout the summer. Chris's old friend visited this weekend with his dog and brought presents for the girls that blew their minds! They both got a digital Bluey camera and already went through the first set of batteries I gave them, so now I have to limit how many they get because it takes 3 AA batteries, and we will run out so fast. They are pretty good at turning them off when they aren't using the camera, but there are games on it, and they've made videos of themselves that they want to watch over and over. 

Shay

In my backyard garden, I arranged some rocks into the start of a fairy garden, and when the girls got home, they were so excited and wanted to add to it. Claire had gems, and I shared shells with Shay so they could decorate and make it pretty for the fairies that will visit. I want to make little houses for them to paint instead of the sand castle molds, but that will probably be during the summertime. For now, they like it and ask if it can be bigger, and I tell them we will work on it, but the Tooth Fairy liked it when she came to get Shay's tooth! This is her 2nd tooth that she lost, and the girls left her a note to make sure she went to look at the fairy garden. She loves her class count down to the end of school and got to have a flashlight for "Dark Day", dress up as Elsa for "Favorite Book Day".