Last day of school

Sydney finished her year of preschool on Wednesday, June 8th.

The Friday prior, her class has a small ceremony where they sang a song and then each child was called up by the teacher.

Daddy came to see Sydney!

Sydney and Eli (right end) were in the same class and Cole and Jonah (yellow shirt) always had fun together and drop-off and pickup.  

First day of School!

Last day of school

Cole and Sydney on the 1st day of school

 

Cole and Sydney on the last day of school 

Sydney with her teachers - Ms. Linda & Ms. Julie.  They were so loving and wonderful!

Sydney's class!

This girl is the sweetest!  Unprompted, she made a card for every child in her class.  

End of May

Some pictures to wrap up the end of last month:

The MOMs Club of Coronado won a book reading from the author of The Dog of the Del so we all gathered at a friends house one afternoon

Sydney with the Dog of the Del

A Navy SEAL who grew up and lived in Coronado was killed in action in early May.  His funeral was held at the Catholic Church and then there was a processional on the way to Ft Rosecrans.   The entire route (over 2 miles) was lined with American flags and people!  It was a very touching and moving tribute.

It was just as patriotic (if not more) as the 4th of July, just much heavier. It was supposed to start at noon but never began until close to 1.  These kiddos were so patient on such a warm day!

Simply amazing!

We were sending Auntie Lindsay entertaining text messages while she was in labor :)  The kids came out both dressed in Sydney's swimsuits!!!

Silly poses!

He started dancing - hilarious!!!

Bedtime...for both!

Playing with the puppet theater at the library

Windy day :) 

Running around

Who doesn't love rolling down a hill?

Zoo time with Brody

Another zoo day with Elsie

This girl.  4 1/2 going on 18!  I hope her attitude is as sweet in 14 years as it is now. 

Welcome Finn!

We have a new nephew/cousin and couldn't be more in love!  Finn Oliver was born on May 14th.  This is Lindsay & Paul's first baby (other than their dog, Zoey!).

So beautiful!!!

The kids LOVE looking at pics of baby Finn.  Sydney went to get her "baby" so she could be just like Aunt Lindsay & Nani holding Finn. 

Nani with her 6th grandbaby

I seriously want to eat.him.up. 

It is exhausting being a baby

Little smile :) 

We skyped with Lindsay, Paul, Finn, Nani & Zoey on Thursday, May 26th so we could "meet" him via skype. 

Cousins meeting their newest cousin. 

We can't wait to hold you, baby Finn.  Welcome to the world!  

Cole riding a 2 wheeler

We bought a new (to Cole) bike from a friend in Sydney's class at the beginning of May.  He wasn't really interested in it at first, but after a weekend with lots of practice, he got the hang of it.

Such a big boy!

It was orange and white when we got it but Cole later told us he didn't want an orange bike... he wanted to blue.  So, we did what any good parents would do - we bribed him :)  You practice riding, we'll ride to the hardware store and buy blue spray paint!  Next thing we knew, we were painting his bike!

Couple videos:

He still prefers his balance bike (he is SO fast on that thing) but it's nice to have the option of the 2-wheeler.  We aren't pushing him to only ride the 2 wheeler as we realize he's only 3 and don't want him to hate bike riding all together!

Mothers Day

We spent Mother's Day at Sea World this year and had a wonderful day!

First up, selfies on the sky tower!

Sydney loves touching all of the animals and could spend all day touching the fish and sharks

Silly girl!

There is a place to buy fish for the bat rays and we treated the kids to feeding them today!  They were both so brave and actually did it (well, Cole may have just thrown his in so the ray wouldn't touch his hand!)

Fun with the characters

Abby was dancing to music so Sydney and another little girl joined her party

We ended the day with an early dinner at Souplantation and early to bed since there were no naps and it was a long day!