Graduates

We've had a busy couple of weeks around here.
Let's not forget to honor our 2 graduates.
Lewis finished medical school as part of his residency. He is now officially almost halfway done with his 6 year residency. If you want me to explain it all, I will, but mostly it's really confusing and just know that we will be in Alabama for 3 more years. He is now Dr. Lewis DMD, MD!!

Brooks graduated from preschool yesterday and is already nervous about starting kindergarten in August. Even though it's in the same school that he's been at for preschool. He'll do great though, I'm sure!

We just found out that Lewis will get a week off starting the Sunday before Memorial Day. We're seriously considering making the major drive to Connecticut slash Massachusetts (Red Sox game Thursday) slash Rhode Island and we'd love to see all of our friends there. So if you read my blog and you'd like to get together, leave a comment or send me an email so we can get it all straightened out!!!

Maybe there can be world peace after all

Mother's Day playground visit

Lewis was on call the night before Mother's Day which means he was up all night :) While he and Cate took a nap I took the "kids" to the playground at their school. Since B will be using that playground next year, I was hoping this visit would be something that will help with the transition. B has trouble with change and transitions which makes me so glad that he is at preschool in the same school where he'll be next year for kindergarten. He goes to art, music, PE, the libray, etc. already and now he's an old pro at the playground too. (and I'm glad we went because he was super nervous about it at first).

The kids are playing DS so I think I'll take this quiet minute and blog

soccer and ballet are over for the season

no more homework for the rest of the year

it's getting warmer and warmer

Time to slip n slide!

ps-- I'm hosting B's end of the year class party at my house and one of the little boys in his class used to live here! We bought the house from them and I'm stressing out about his parents coming over. ahhhh!

Last weekend was super duper busy

Starting Friday with a field trip for Brooks. Since I had a derm. appt. I wasn't able to go as a chaperone, but baby C and I illegally joined them for a few minutes at the farm.


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Friday evening Aid had a birthday party and then a dress rehearsal for ballet. On the way from the party to the rehearsal she was begging for makeup. Well, unfortunately for her I don't typically carry makeup in my purse! I knew she wanted to wear some because she had asked somewhere in the neighborhood of 5,000 times about it, but had forgotten in the shuffle of in and out of the car , buckle the baby, unbuckle the baby, run here, run there, etc. Anyway, long story short, we found some shiny lip gloss stuff and made it work as blush and lip stuff!!


Saturday morning was the big ballet performance which was so awesome. The theme was "Jesus loves the children of the world" or something like that. ("you know you live in the south when...") And they were the USA. She was terrific.And B got her flowers.

Right afterward we headed over to a town carnival where we had a blast and even ran into some friends!The baby was so jealous that she couldn't ride.

Favorite picture from the weekend:
Later, it was another birthday party for Aid (2 friends having a party together) and then the parade and street dance to end the day.

Our town has the best parades because they throw SO much candy. The kids all have bags and even though we were at the end of the parade we still made a haul.

And Ronald Nored was there getting a major award. 'cause we're cool like that. And he's from here. (bonus points if you remember him from the NCAA tournament)

We danced our little hearts out and headed home when it got late.

Sunday put the icing on the "my crazy little life" cake. :)

Bubbles

What kind of a mother would let their child suck on a blue marker and then let her lick the bubble wand?!?!

Don't worry, this won't turn into a one liner blog with no pictures

Turns out I'm allergic (at least a little bit) to parabens. Which is a mix of preservatives that is in most everything. Ok, not everything but lots of shampoos, conditioner, lotion, cosmetics, etc. The dermatologist gave me a 76 page list of products I can use. Most are of the pretty expensive variety, but there are quite a few "drugstore" products that are paraben free. Actually, most of the products I use are already on the list, but hopefully eliminating parabens from my life will help me out and get rid of the skin issues!!! My arms and legs are the latest victims....