Pink Eye

Yep, Kellen woke up this morning with a yucky eye. So, after we got Kristin off to school for the day we called the doctor's office to get him looked at. Likely pink eye, so Kellen is on antibiotic eye drops for 3 days. He takes he drops like a champ! At least he was in pretty good spirits today. While he napped I got a little outside work done. After he woke up he helped me find a new hose at Lowe's. The one in the front yard finally gave up and had a hole in it. Of course when we got home we hooked up the new hose and tested it out. Kellen sucessfully got all wet and even got me pretty wet. At least it was a pretty warm day with sun, so we dried off pretty quickly.

Tonight we found out that the other 2 butterflies hatched today. Kristin was so excited. After dinner we took a walk up to the school to play for a little while. Kristin did great on the monkey bars and Kellen kept Aaron moving on the play structure. We finished off our walk by our baseball watch walk. Aaron was able to get one of the baseballs we saw last week free with a long stick. Most of the baseballs get abandoned because they are in thick blackberries.

New Butterflies

Danelle and I met today with Kellen's main teacher to have his 'parent-teacher conference'. He is doing well and will be transitioning to the next classroom over the course of the next three weeks. I think he'll like it alot because it has an accessible potty and sink. He does love to play in the sink!

Kristin's big news is that three of the butterflies at her kindergarten have come out of their chrysalis'. Sounds like they are each different colors so far. She also made ice cream at daycare this afternoon. They were eating it a pick-up time.

We took a short walk around the block before bath time this evening and met our new next door neighbor, who is just started moving in.

Hope everyone likes the new feature on the right - the music player. Took us awhile to find a free third-party host for audio files that will let us 'hot link' so that you don't have to download the files to play them. All you have to do is push play after the page fully loads.

Up and Down

Kellen was fascinated with the concept of up and down tonight. Shortly after we got home he wanted to work the blinds in the living room saying "up down." Aaron helped him with the blinds. Later he was playing with a book that has animals that you match to each page and they sit in a sleeve. He was moving the sleeve "up down."

Kristin had a good day today. She is learning about things underground at daycare this week. She came home with a head lamp for spelunking that she made out of construction paper.

Kellen is growning "up" and getting so tall. Aaron caught him standing on a toy to look out the window (a no no). It is amazing how he can balance though.

A Trip to the Pond

There is a man-made wetland of sorts taking root on the property next to Kristin's elementary school. I think it was planted about a year ago or so. Kristin's kindergarten class got to walk through it today. They are studying pond life in her class. Kristin says that there are five separate ponds there, and her class walked by three of them. She also counted 17 ducks at elementary school and 1 'daddy duck' near her daycare.


Kristin has a new twist to her daily take-home books that she reads to us. Now she has to write a sentence in a journal about the story. for the last book, she wrote that animals look like their parents. Then the teacher's aid wrote a note back saying good job and asking if Kristin looks like her parents. Kristin thought 'no'. So Danelle got out some pictures of her when she was young to show Kristin how much she looks like Danelle when Danelle was her age.



After a trip down memory lane with the photos, we snuck outside for a walk around the block before the rain set in. Actually, we got sprinkled on just a bit. One of those rains that smell like a clean spring rain. It's showering good here now and we may actually get a thunderstorm here tonight.

Not sure if I'd shared this photo yet or not: Kristin working on Nana and Oma's birthday gifts earlier this year.

Flip Flops

Today was another busy day with some errands. After lunch Kristin and I headed to the mall for some flip flops for her and some new t-shirts for Kellen. Kristin was able to find some blue butterfly flip flops. We also popped into the Disney Store and she found something she wants to save her money up from the Tooth Fairy and get. So, next tooth she will be there.

After Kellen got up from nap we headed to his swim lesson. His friend Daniel from daycare is in his class, but was not able to participate today due to a cold. He watched Kellen though and Kellen saw him with about 5 mintues left in class. All Kellen would say was Daniel for those 5 minutes. :)

Aaron had a hockey game tonight and scored the winning goal in a shoot out!!! Hooray!!! Since he was gone the kids and I headed outside after dinner. Kellen just wanted to water, but it was too chilly to do that right away. The kids played with brooms and worked on sweeping the sidewalks. Kellen also got out his mower and played with that for awhile. I got a few more flowers planted and some basil too. Then came watering time. Kellen was as soaked as all the flowers! He just plays with the hose and doesn't really help with watering... which is fine, but it was chilly tonight. So we headed in for bath and warm clothes.

Play Date

Kristin had a play date today with her friend Ella from kindergarten. It was at Ella's house. It sounds like both of the girls had a blast. Kristin asked 'how come two hours goes by so fast?' They did a craft project with shrinky dinks and Ella's mom then put them on bracelets for Kristin.

Outside of the playdate, it was mostly a day of errands for us. I bought a new gas line trimmer and did some edging around the sidewalks, and then mowed the lawn. Danelle took the kids to shop for some summer clothes and then stopped by Dairy Queen for a Dilly Bar for Kristin. She chose it as her reward for good behavior this week.

Kellen had a pretty good day too. He made it through bathtime without a tantrum and there wasn't all that much whining involved either. That's an improvement of late. He used to loved baths. We think he still does, he's just figured out that bedtime comes after bath.

I think Danelle was able to fix the calendar to the right, so everyone should be able to see planned events again. I took a bunch of pictures last night - Kellen got out the tricycle after he was done with the hose.

Outside Time

Kristin and Kellen both had good days today. I got to volunteer today at Kindergarten. Kristin always enjoys seeing me there. Her class got a special treat today... popcorn to take home! The whole class was pretty excited. There was one rule... wait until you get home to eat it... do NOT eat it on the bus. Kristin was good and opened it tonight after dinner.

Kellen was cranky to say the least tonight. He was happy for a little while outside playing with the hose and later the tricycle and bubble mower. Kristin helped me water the garden and some flowers I planted today. She also rolled around on her scooter for a little bit.