Two.Eight Years

 2.8 Years

• We are wrapping up the end of the school year with the big kids and the weather is getting warmer so it is feeling like summer is almost here. You have been playing outside in the sandbox more and jumping on the trampoline. It is nice that this year, you are big enough to jump with the older kids for the most part so you can join in on their fun. We got to go to Maggie and Sam's music concert and Millie's preschool graduation. You are a good trooper about sitting through thee event for the most part. 
• Uncle Dusty and Auntie Janecce came with all the kids for a weekend. We hunted for mushrooms (the little girls won the prize for most found and bought everyone popsicles with their price money), had a Harry Potter dinner, put on a piano concert, went swimming at the hotel, took turns singing karaoke, wrestled, swam in the pond (well just Sam and Phillip), and finished with a night at Jungle Gyms playing the arcade games. You really have become great friends with Jessie. She introduced you to cocomelon video clips. You both loved dressing up and every time you came up the stairs, you had on a different ballet dress or tutu on. You keep asking when Jessis can come back or when you get to go to Jessie's house. 
• The big kids are finished with school!! You are so excited to have them back home all day with you. We celebrated the first day of summer by making our summer bucket list and getting slurpies. 
• The pond is coming along. I was so nervous about having it there and having you kids wonder out over there, but with the thistles and rocky shore, you have never wanted to walk down there by yourself. You like going in the water if I am swimming with you. You enjoy throwing rocks in. You do not enjoy going on the kayak at all. When I try to sit on it with you, it is too tipsy so you get afraid. When I just have you just on the kayak and push you around, you beg to get off. 
• Summer adventures: With the weather being cooler, we have gone on a few hikes. We have hiked the white bird battle field as a family and the Johns Creek trail twice, once just me and you kids and another time with friends. I have to say that you are getting heavy to carry. You are starting to want to hike on your own, so this may be the last summer that we really carry you.
• The circus came into town. We probably shouldn't have gone because you were sick, but I had already bought the tickets and I really wanted to take you guys. You enjoyed the first half, but then got really tired the second half. Dad bought you guys a bag of peanuts, so it really felt like the real deal. 
• You are Nora are such good friends. With the big kids going to swim practice in the morning and then us going back to the park at lunch time for the library reading program, we have been picking her up to play a bit more. Both of you love to dress up and it's hard to keep your clothes on. Nora got an Elsa dress for her birthday, so now both of you girls can be Elsa together.