Father's Day Camping

Here are pictures from our annual camping trip at Half Moon Pond with the Everitts and Malcolms.  We missed Christine and Harley this year, but had a blast.  We had a very rainy first night, but the rest of the weekend was beautiful.  Lots of canoeing, fishing, bike riding and swimming.  One of our favorite weekends of the summer.  

All 3 kids LOVE fishing.  Cooper is now able to hook his own worm, cast, and reel in all on his own!  Which makes fishing much more fun for him and his parents! 

Isabel's Preschool Graduation

Isabel graduates!  It was a day of very mixed emotions for me.  Cooper, and now Isabel, have both graduated from the preschool that my siblings and I went to.  We've LOVED our experience there.  But as life continues to get busier, I've had to make some tough choices, and have decided to send Emma to a preschool right in town.  The good news is she'll be in a class with her good friend Wren, but the bad news is we're done at East Middlebury!  We will definitely miss this little yellow school house.  

Isabel's progressed so much in the last year.  She started off very quiet and shy, and probably didn't say an unsolicited word to her teachers the first half of the year!  But she turned into a smart, caring, friendly, helpful, sweet, independent little girl!  Can't wait to see her progress in Kindergarten! 

Isabel's class sang "you've got a friend" and "It's a hard knock life."  So cute!!  

 

Isabel's 4 year old class

A proud papa!

Isabel and Nate

Isabel and Ida

Isabel and teacher, Katie

Isabel and teacher, Camille

Emma's Third Birthday

Hard to believe my baby turned 3!!!  I'm not a fan of throwing big birthday parties, but a June birthday makes the logistics much more manageable!  We had a beautiful Sunday to celebrate Emma's birthday with all of our friends at the East Middlebury playground.  We had a great turn out.  The kids got to play, and the parents were even able to catch up a little!  

I think we had something like 20 kids?????!!!!!!!  Watch out, the kids are starting to out number the parents!

Emma's new balance bike! 

Emma's new "suitcase"

This is Emma at her day care celebration

A very proud 3 year old! 

Chuck with his birthday balloon delivery!  He never fails to deliver on the big day! 

Later that day at Gramma Net's house.  Playing in her new tent with cousin Henry!

Later that night, opening a gift from the Mangilits while we video chatted with them on the computer. 

Gogo thinks our couch is kind of lumpy...

The "too cool for school birthday girl" and Gumma and Gogo!

Spring 2014

KITES!  I bought the kids a few different things to keep them occupied this summer.  I put them all down in the basement, but lo and behold, the kids found them!  So out came the kites this spring, which was actually great because we had such a windy, windy spring season.  I just have a picture of Cooper and Isabel, but at one point, all three kids were running around the back yard with their kites flying through the air.  So much fun!

MEMORIAL DAY 

The holiday was spent in usual fashion, sitting on the curb by South Street, watching the town parade.  For the second year in a row, Cooper walked in it with his baseball team.  

Cooper's #5

Isabel learned to ride a two wheeler this spring.  One of the really great kid milestones if you ask me.  She and Cooper can now be found anywhere in the neighborhood riding their bikes.  Emma unfortunately is still confined to the driveway without adult supervision.  So hard being the youngest! Never the less, she dominates the tricycle!  

The following videos are a from Easter at Crock and Sue's.  Didn't get a chance to post them with the Easter pics.  Quite a serious game of whiffle ball we had going on...

April 2014

GUMMA'S BIRTHDAY 

We had a little girls celebration for Gumma's birthday.  We had her over for a tea party and everyone got dressed up.  Just the girls!  

EASTER

Do you think they're excited? 

Gogo and Gumma came over with their own Easter Hunt.  A scavenger hunt with clues to find their baskets at the end. 

Then it was off to Crock and Sue's for an afternoon party.  The kids had a blast as usual finding the hidden eggs outside. 

It was great to have Henry join in the fun this year! 

Someone's cheating...

Looking for help wherever she can get it!

Hopscotch!

And the day finished with a great game of baseball.  

Celebrating Gramma Ali's birthday!