Final Dress Rehearsal 5.12.16

The final dress rehearsal took place a few days before Jeralyn's actual performance in the Spring Gala.  Quent went to the final dress rehearsal to take pictures.  They don't allow video due to copyright, and we respect that, so Quent snapped lots of photos.

Jeralyn and her class were fairies and their song was from Peter Pan.  The theme for the Spring Gala was Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales.

Jeralyn and her class enters the stage.

They run (gallop?) around in a circle.

Hop.  Skip.  Jump.

When she's on the stage, she smiles non-stop.  There is a smile on her face the whole time.  Seriously.  She's in her element.  She LOVES it!

Running off stage.  See that smile?

She did GREAT in her performance!  We sat in the front row and Joshua really enjoyed watching his sister and all of the young dancers in the performance.  Next year she gets to wear ballet slippers, which is pretty exciting.  I would love to see her go far in ballet, but we shall see.  So far, she's enjoying it very much.

Baby Joel 5.19.16

Our little, happy, sweet baby boy!

Her brothers 5.18.16

Jeralyn loves her brothers.  And she's a fun big sister!

Jumperoo 3-J's comparison

I thought it would be fun to show a comparison of all the 3 kids.

Book 5.11.16

Joel has his own book that he looks at that has fun shapes, colors and patterns.  He will study it while doing tummy time (which he's not that excited about but getting better about).

Little Pool 5.11.16

We had a few days of "summer" type weather.  We had gone to the beach this day but they were still interested in playing in the water, so I set up their pool outside after lunch.

Happy Baby 5.9.16

Puppy & Tigger 5.7.16

Joshua LOVES his puppy.  He isn't without his puppy at any time during the day.  I think he's more attached to Puppy than Jeralyn was with Shelly.

Big Kids 5.7.16

Handsome 5.5.16

She loves him 4.30.16

Outside 4.27.16

We were playing on the deck and I snapped these photos.

Joel & Josh comparisons

Sometimes when I look at Joel, I feel like I had the same baby (Josh and even sometimes Jeralyn) again.  They definitely look alike.  You can see for yourself:

Joel (above)

Joel (above)

Joshua (above) 

Joshua (above) 

Joel (above)

Cheesy 4.23.16

Dress-Up 4.18.16

Joshua asked Jeralyn to put this dress on him.  So funny!

Camping with Daddy April 9-10, 2016

Quent took the kids camping; they loved it!  They ended up camping at the Ward Lake campground and it looks like they had a lot of fun.  I enjoyed my own little retreat at home with baby Joel.

Jeralyn with some climbing ropes at home.  I'm not sure why she had these on but it looks like she liked it.   

Quent brought the canoe and they enjoyed paddling around the lake.  

Easter 3.27.16

The kids woke up, looked for their baskets, ate candy for breakfast (pretty much) and then later we had an Easter egg hunt outside (in the misty rain).

Joshua was super excited about the school bus he got since he loves watching the school bus come down our street.

Jeralyn was excited to get a chocolate bunny.

A slug found an Elmo egg.  It's kind of gross.  We don't like slugs.