End of the School Year

It seems with the end of the school year, always comes those important milestones. Jacob is now a bear in Scouts and finishing up the baseball season. Katie had her Kindergarten program and has her Cheerleading program next week. Grandma was able to attend both of her programs much to Katie's delight, so we should get some good pictures from her camera.

Katie can also now ride her bike without training wheels.

Mother's Day

Mother's Day is always a good time for a family photo op. This year we also had a visit from Gram and Pops and Dan, Kim, and Caedmon.

Day at the Museum

We have been discovering the local museums since our move and found lots of neat places for the kids and are looking forward to more days at the local museums and attractions this summer.

Katie and I explored the UVA Art Museum one day for their Kid's Art Jam and had a great time. They had the children pick out their favorite painting and had them try to duplicate the painting with flowers by matching the colors and the placement of the colors. It was very neat and we got this gorgeous flower centerpiece to take home. We also drew a picture of a single flower without lifting our crayon off the paper and I found out that I have a little artist inside of me as well.

Another neat thing that Katie did with her school was go to the local Children's hospital and they had a Bear workshop where they fixed up their teddy bears and learned about medicine. Here is Katie with her doctor outfit on. Art and wanting to be a doctor are her two passions so it will be interesting to see which direction she goes.

Over Memorial Day weekend, we went to the old Mitchie Tavern (1784) and had a wonderful lunch at The Ordinary, used the Neccesary Room, and went shopping at the Clothier and General Store. Quite fun.

And today we went to the Richmond Children's Museum. It was very well done and even had an outdoor sand and waterplay area - we closed the place down.

Our little Princess

Sarah finally found a use for our huge foyer. The girls use it so much that it has almost taken up permanent residence by the front door.