Seven.Three Years

 7.3 Years

• Dance Recital is this month. This year the theme is "Where's Waldo?" Your group got to dance to a toy store song. You got such a cute purple-ish red tutu. I loved seeing all your great facial expressions. Cecily, Megan and a few friends from school are in your class so it has been such a great year in dance. 
• End of the school year is starting to begin. You had your spring concert for music. Ms. Bridgette is your teacher. She is nice but I really wish that you had Ms. Carla. The songs were cute and you loved learning all the hand signs for them. I know you are liking a class when I hear all about it in the car and I definitely heard a few songs in the car all the week leading up to the concert. Also, we finished our last book for book club. You guys read the Magic Tree House book about the volcano in Pompeii. I had each of you write up a book review to share with the class along with making your own volcanoes. We invited your class to come outside, listen to you share your book report and set off your volcano. Timo was really jealous that he dropped out for the last book. 
• Our pond is full! it was been fun to take the kayaks out on the pond and inviting friends over to play. 
• As the weather is finally getting warmer, we were able to sneak off to Tolo Lake while the plants and grass out there are green. You loved kayaking out on the lake. The Browns joined us later on so you had Ellie to kayak and Jessie took a big group of you out in the canoe.
• I got to go on one of your field trips this month. First grade went out to Tolo lake to see the fish get released. The truck was late in getting there so I entertained you and your friends with different songs and hand games to play in line. You have such cute friends. 
• We are starting to pack up our first load to take to Oregon. This had been hard because I am asking you girls to pack up a lot of the your extra stuff like stuff animals and toys you are not going to play with over the summer. It is really hard but one thing that has made it easier for you is knowing that Cecily is going to move also. You guys call each other your moving buddies. No one likes moving, but if you have to, it's more fun when your best friend is moving also. 
• We were able to go drive to Oregon for the Daddy/Daughter camp out. We packed a moving van up with a lot of our stuff to drop off at the new house. There was a strong emotions from some family members, but you are still on the younger side so it seems like an adventure still. You were so excited to see the new house since you hadn't seen it yet. You and JoJo were running all around, happy about your new room and exploring the new backyard. We literally dumped everything in the garage, took a tour of the school, ate the most amazing pizza sticks, and hoped that the house will do well for the next four months without us. The next morning, all the dads and girls headed up the Columbia River area to go back packing. It was suppose to be this long hike. Well, there was too much snow on the road and you guys couldn't get up to the trail head. You bush whacked to an area that the map showed there was suppose to be a lake, but ended up a swamp. It was fun though. We met up with you guys in Hood River to eat burgers and milk shakes and then drove home.
• Last week of school includes field day. You got to do the long jump, the softball throw (almost hit the middle school student helping out), the 100m dash and the 200m dash. You also received the "Busy as a Bee" award for being such a hard worker in class and getting all your assignments completed on time. The last day was really fun with a family BBQ. Dad was even able to join in.
• To celebrate the start of summer and work through our Idaho bucket list, we did a hike in Hells Canyon. It was so beautiful and warm there. You always have such a great attitude when hiking. We cut your bangs the last week of school (you have been begging for bangs all year long) and it was horrible how they stick out crazy after you would rub the sweat off your fore head. 
• We created "I'm Bored" list for the summer. You girls have taken to it so well. I love seeing all your creations and imagination develop. My favorite was a bird house that you made out of paper bowls. We placed them on the ledge of the porch and in the mornings, we could really see bird eating out of them. 
• We signed you up for baseball this year. You are in coach pitch. After the first game, you told me that was every boring. At least the weather is good.