Bookworm- May

Mckenna loves reading books! When her preschool teacher announced the caterpillar reading program, Mckenna was so excited.  Whenever Mckenna read a book, we had to write the name of the book on a circle. Each child turned in their circles with names of books that they read during about a 6 week period. Her teacher used these circles to make a caterpillar that went around the preschool.  Mckenna has always been excited about reading and reads for at least an hour every day. She likes it when I read to her, but she also "reads" to herself or to Brielle.  By the end of 6 weeks, Mckenna had read 251 books! She read the most out of everyone in the preschool. They had a pizza party where they gave out awards. Mckenna clutched onto her circles that whole day.  When we got home, Mckenna and I spent the afternoon taping her circles around her room. Her caterpillar went all the way around her bedroom, down the hall, and most of the way around the other bedroom. She was so proud :)

April Showers

Hopefully our April showers will bring May flowers! Despite Brielle's face in the picture, they had fun playing outside in the rain!

The three of us all dressed up for church 

Easter

The girls on Easter morning...

Brielle takes a bit longer to wake up than Mckenna does :)

Easter baskets

Little Brielle still had her sunburn from skiing

Grandma Collins made their dresses and gave them to the girls for Christmas. I decided to count those as Easter dresses so I didn't have to make any :)

After church, the girls found some eggs around the house.

Mckenna really had fun this year

We went to the community Easter egg hunt on Saturday.  We left our camera in the car :(.  And I really wished that I had it to video tape what happened.  Brielle was too young, so she just got a small pre-made basket.  Mckenna was in the 4-5 age group.  Their were a lot of kids.  Once they blew the whistle to get the eggs, Mckenna started running, but immediately turned around running back to us. She wanted us to go with her, but adults couldn't go in. So we kept telling her to go get some eggs, and she kept refusing. Finally, she went out and got a few close ones. Later, she was sad she didn't get very many eggs. Maybe next year she won't be so scared! :)

Swingset

Devin and I had an Easter surprise for the girls...

We spent the night putting our new swingset together. The girls had so much fun playing in the box that they didn't even guess what we were putting together.

Mckenna was singing:

 "Row, row, row the boat
gently down the street (I didn't know she didn't know the words, it was cute)

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily

Life is but a dream"

We finally finished putting it up at like 9:30 that night. So Easter morning, we took the girls outside to see it all put together.

It was a little bright, but boy, were they excited!

Brielle had a wild ride down the slide.

She actually hasn't gone on it again by herself. She wants us to help her.

They love it!  They always want to go outside and play. Mckenna likes to give her stuffed animals rides down the slide and on the swing.  It's a hit!

Skiing

Brielle is always making us laugh :)

We took a Saturday and went skiing.  It was Mckenna and Brielle's first time.  Devin and I took turns going down the hill while the other helped teach Mckenna how to ski. She did really well. She had fun. Devin even put Brielle in the skis. She liked having the boots on, but did not like it when Devin put her in the skis.

It was the end of March when we went skiing, and I didn't even think about bringing sunscreen... 

Poor Brielle got burned pretty bad. It didn't seem to bother her though.

Mckenna likes to play with Brielle's hair during bath time.  She calls this hair-do "the Spaceship"

Sick-o!

Devin and Mckenna have caught a sickness! Devin didn't ever throw up but he didn't have much of an appetite for a few days.  Mckenna on the other hand, threw up like crazy.  Poor girl has spent 2 whole days laying on the couch.  She sure has her fair share of sickness lately!

Brielle thought she would create the best seat in the house. :)

As a side note, I finished my ABC wall!  I love it!  These girls love reading books!

Pushing Spring

We can't wait for Spring! I have had spring decorations up since the beginning of March. The weather likes to tease us sometimes too. But when it does, we take advantage and go to the park!

Brielle thought she was pretty cool on the big kid swing. Both girls have always LOVED swinging.