Busy Beavers

I’m basically basing this post on all the pictures. Soooo, here’s a photo-album view of our lives lately.
In this album: The YW camping trip last April – rain meant we got to sleep in the cabin instead of tents. Shucks.
Kieran’s 2nd Birthday!
The picture Asher had me take of himself to send to his primary teacher as part of the birthday gift he gave her.
Hollyn’s Preschool Graduation
Boys’ music performances at school
Brennan’s Invention. They needed to invent something – kind of like a science fair thingy. He invented an egg cracker. With was a crack-a-lackin’ success!

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Don’t you just love her hair?

Doctor visit time

Scouting day at Central Park. Hollyn was pretty good with those remote control robots

Time to get Brennan up for school. Wait… Where is he?Seriously?

Yep. He’d slept under that box the entire night. Silly kid.

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Finally got his Bear award. On to Webelos!

First warm day of the spring/summer.

Trying out some rearrangements. You always move everything about 20 times before most of it ends up right where it started. Hah.

Errands ran long. Lunch at Yogurt Extreme it is!

I love coming across little gems like this. Oh Brenny…

Last day of school means DQ time. This is how Asher felt about summer finally starting.
This would have been my favorite, but what the heck did the camera do to Kieran’s face?

Fun story with this one. One night Hollyn started crying so we went upstairs to check on her, but by the time we got up to the top she’d stopped. So we didn’t go in. We noticed the power upstairs was out though, so we went back to the breakerbox to flip the switches. All was good. The next morning I noticed Hollyn’s nightlight was charred. Come to find out, when I asked her about it, she said she’d been playing with toys on the floor but not messing with the light (yeah right) and said “there was fire! The fire got on my pjs and it hurt me”. Yikes, right? I’m preeeeetty sure there was probably just a spark or something that scared her, but her rendition of the events are pretty frightening.

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We got home from Fort Bragg about 11:30pm. Kieran got aaaaaaalmost to the stairs to follow me up. Just couldn’t quite make it.
The evening at the lakeHappiness at dinnertime
If one MUST take 4 kids into Petco, at least give yourself a perk out of it.

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The end of the spontaneous family bike races. I had the trailer with two kids. No, I didn’t win. Even once.
Cubscout Daycamp Family Potluck
Someone needs to brush.

Just a couple of dudes watching a showKieran LOVES these fab princess shoes

Phone Pics

On the day she got a new backpack she was allowed to play outside but I instructed her to stay in our backyard. I suspect she doesn't know there's a difference between "back" and "front" yard, so she had gone to the front. I looked out the window and there she was, having set up these chairs on the sidewalk. Her new backpack sitting in the chair beside her they sat and people watched, watching the other kids playing at the playground across the street. It was the cutest thing ever!

Then it was time to break out the roller blades she got for her birthday!

 She made it to and across the grass! Time for a pit stop! ;-)

 Backing up...
Hollyn enjoyed a wonderful 4th birthday. Aunt Jill and Uncle Peter sent her some awesome princess accessories: tiara and heels.

 The new sunglasses go well with them.

 Opening some gifts.

Several months ago I got myself a bike from Craigslist. Now, at least once a week, I bike to work. I thought it would be a great way to exercise, though I secretly hoped it would be leisurely and pleasant. Turns out it's a great way to exercise.  Dang it.

 Saturday money-job time.  I have a "work for hire" board with jobs posted for $1. The novelty wore off quickly, so now I impose that they HAVE to choose a money job on Saturdays, though I let them keep the $ anyway.  Hollyn though is happy to clean windows either way. :-)

 Brennan naturally spends more time dancing than working. Love him.

A couple extra pinewood derby pics I don't think I posted last time. These are from Bro. Thomson's workshop. Since he is a woodworker by trade, I took him up on his offer to help any boys build their cars. Brennan had a fantastic time there!

Hollyn finally got in to see the allergist. Nothing new really came up. I took her in because she'd had some past reactions to eggs, though not EVERY time. Plus she's been sick every other week since November, and I wondered if there was a relationship. The skin test didn't actually show any allergy to eggs though the history makes it very clear that there is a sensitivity to it. So we'll just watch out for reactions. She did though react BIG time to grass. No surprise there, however the strength of her reaction is unusually strong for someone her age. Seasonal allergies like this don't often manifest before age 5 or so.  Poor girlie.

She wanted her sticker placed on her back. I think she thought it would act like a bandaid and make it all better.

She was really, really sad about all the pokes. :-(