Piano Recital

Our Summer Plans Are Set

There is a new children's museum near us and I forsee many trips there this summer. We went for an hour today and it was not nearly long enough to satisfy the minions.

Camping In The Backyard

Red Fish wanted to sleep in the backyard after the last day of school.  Good thing she has a fun Dad who was willing to set up the tent and sleep outside.

Kindergarten Graduation

 I went to a little program at the school to watch Red Fish graduate from kindergarten.  They sang patriotic songs and gave out little awards and diplomas.  I am going to really miss this time in our lives when my babies spent most of their time at home.  It is going to be a rough adjustment to having Red Fish go to school all day next year.  I was okay with kindergarten.  I am not okay with first grade.

 Red Fish had a fabulous school year.  She adored school and her teacher.  She made wonderful friends and she excels at her school work. She is a fabulous kid.

Red Fish and her fabulous teacher Mrs. B

Family Dinner

 Just a small peak at a family birthday dinner. Happy kids.

Thing 2 and I rocking our jumpsuits.

Daddy Date To The Aquarium

Crafting Outside

The First Tooth

This morning Red Fish woke up with a lose tooth.  I was too much of a chicken to pull it for her, so she asked her kindergarten teacher to handle it for her.  When she brought it home (marked with the date and time) we made a little tooth fairy pillow together. Someone told Red Fish that the tooth fairy (and Santa etc) aren't real.  I was extremely ticked.  Red Fish still wants to believe and she was shattered by the news.  We decided together that she can believe anything she wants to so we stitched beads onto the pillow spelling out: "I believe in magic." The pillow has a little pocket for notes and teeth.  My baby is growing up.

The Flight Home

Yep we are THAT family in the airport.

The Everglades

 Whenever we travel we try to go to the local National Parks if at all possible.  Who knows when we would be near the Everglades National Park again? We wanted to do the boat tour so we drove 40 miles into the park.  We saw a manatee while we were on the dock.  I did not get a good picture but it was a cool experience- a first for all of us.  When he pulled his head out of the water, Red Fish was especially shocked by his experience and took a few steps back.  She ended up buying herself a little toy manatee from the store because she liked him so much.

 The boat ride ended up being lame.  We saw one tiny American crocodile (I didn't know we had crocodiles) and the mangroves but it was a fairly uneventful ride.  If you are planning on visiting the Everglades I would skip the boat tour and save your money.

Mangroves

 We collected junior ranger packets from the Flamingo visitor center and started to think that the Everglades just wasn't our favorite park.  We decided to stop at the Anhinga board walk trail and it completely changed our minds.  Every few feet down the trail there would be an alligator, an anhinga, or a giant neon grasshopper. We saw turtles and wildlife at every turn.  This trail alone was worth the trip. We spent several hours looking at all of the animals.

Beach Day

No trip to Florida would be complete without a trip to the beach so we loaded up our stuff and got back into the car. We stopped at the beach on our way from Orlando back to Miami to check out the sand and water.  The girls are good at making friends wherever they go so they immediately had a posse to run with through the waves and and build sand castles.

Epcot

Epcot is lame. My kids were not interested at all.The only thing we really enjoyed was the Fast Track ride.