And...we're off!

 We are officially off into what is a very busy month of May! So, this week we had "Pet Day" for Makayla's class. Bayou did so good with all the kiddos.

Here is Makayla telling all her friends about our precious Bayou.

Thursday night Makayla had her Choir Concert. She has been talking about it for weeks now and she was pumped up. She did a wonderful job of course, she loves it and we love hearing her sing praises to our God. They sounded amazing.

Yesterday was Moms and Muffins with Christopher. It was so special. They sang for us and showed off some things they learned over the school year and of course treated us to muffins. Christopher is such a little gentlemen and I truly enjoyed yesterday with him.

This week, in the mailbox...

These beauties went out in the mail this week! We are so proud!

Teacher Appreciation Week

Yesterday was busy! 
First church then craft-o-mania! This week is Teacher Appreciation Week and we love our teachers so much. We made two gifts each for all the teachers including choir, p.e. etc. and their main teachers get a gift every day. Since the end of school is only 2 weeks away, (Yes! Two weeks away) we did our last day of school gifts too! Yes, all my ideas came from pintrest.

Day One
M&M jar with teacher poem

Day 2
"You are the hi-lite of my day"

Day 3
"According to my calculations this was a wonderful year"

Day 4
"Thank you for holding it all together"

Day 5
post-it note holder

Smore packs for the teachers

"Wishing you Smore & Smore fun this summer"

Goldfish for Makayla and Christopher's classes.

"You are 0-fish-ally in 2nd/5th grade!"

Bookworms

Anyone who knows Makayla knows this is what she normally looks like....

 However here lately this is what we see....

Christopher's teacher started a reading contest around Spring Break and she has really inspired his love for reading. We started him on The Dairy Of A Wimpy Kid series and he loves them!

He has read all the requirements for the reading contest but he is still reading. He loves it. He is on book 5 with one more to go in the series! In fact she sent home a note this week that Christopher had read 880 pages out of the required 400 pages!!
We love to see our kids love for reading and the looks on their faces when they tell the stories from the books. My favorite thing Christopher has done lately is he asked "Can I just read, not for the contest but just read?"

Here he is when he finished books 2-4.

 Makes these parents heart smile!!!

Cast Free

Makayla got her cast off yesterday! She was very excited. The Doctor said the break is healing right on schedule. She will be in a brace for three weeks and then hopefully we will be cleared from the orthopedic.
Her skin under the cast looked amazing. Her arm is really pale and thin but she has been working that arm out. She is doing great!

Kids Say the Darnest Things

My kids (like everyones kids) are always providing us free entertainment. I wanted to share with you some recent quotes from my kiddos.

The other night I was tucking Makayla in and bent down to give her a kiss and she yelled "WHEW" "That is a giant pimple on your face!"      my reply- "gee thanks"

A few weeks ago we were eating dinner and the Easter story came up. Christopher wanted to know about the Disciple Tom...humm I had to think for a second and I asked him "You mean Thomas?"
"Yes Thomas that's the guy"-he replied

We then started talking about Peter and James Henry then chimed in very loudly "Peter is Spider-Man"
"True." I said.  -Hard to argue with that one.

 Christopher's retort was "I always picture Peter like the Peter on Ghostbusters." 
-OK I can see that.

Easter 2012

We had a wonderful Easter weekend. James has been working so much that we decided to stay low-key this Easter. In fact the Lord had his hand in us being low-key because Thursday morning Makayla woke up sick and when we got to the Doctor and discovered she had strep throat I had them check James Henry and sure enough he had it too.So we were home bound! James did get home on Thursday in time for me to make it to the hospital to see my dear friend who welcomed a precious baby girl.
   Friday we had a ministry event with our fifth and sixth graders so I stayed home with the kids. Saturday was full of cake making....

and egg dyeing....

On Sunday we went to Sunrise Service. It was amazing!

Here are the kids checking out their loot from their baskets...

James Henry was very slow at egg hunting...

Our big kids dragged him along....

We had a wonderful Easter! Praise God the tomb was empty!!