More Picture Updates

The babies enjoying our hotel room. There was hardly anything in the kitchen cabinets below, so I pulled out what was in there since the kids loved the space. Rachel started calling it her "hide out" from the "bad guys," which Alden has converted into "hide-guys." He always wants to play in his "hide-guys" spot. I'm thinking about reserving a lower cabinet in our new kitchen as a little hide out for the kids to play in. Below, Alden is playing hide-and-seek. He really doesn't get the game, and picks the most obvious places to hide. He thinks if he crouches in a corner and can't see anyone, no one must be able to see him. Cute boy.

 Here's the babies with their beloved statue. This statue stands in front of the law school, and Rachie's loved it from day one. It wasn't long before we'd pull up and she'd say from the back, "Hi John Marshall, Hi George Wythe" (pronounced by Rachie: George Wiff). Alden thinks they are pretty great as well.

Here's Rachel with one of her best buddies, Caleb at the JRCLS send-off cookout to celebrate the end of the year and say goodbye to the 3L's. These little ones have been playing together since they first learned to crawl. The picture below Rachel and Caleb is of Alden and our friend Luke playing on the park manager's truck/cart. They spent a ton of time during the cookout imagining they were driving together on this thing.

 Alden loves to relax with his arms behind his head and I think he's just cute.

 From our most recent Busch Gardens trip. Loving on Elmo.

 Petting a Clydesdale with Daddy.

 Alden giddy as can be after getting absolutely soaked on the log flume ride. Jase literally rung out Alden's shirt afterwards and we had to strip him down up top and put on his jacket to warm him up.

 Rachie scored big at the pet show. Busch Gardens has a 57 year old parrot named Stevie who actually does math. He can solve any math problem with an answer less than 10 as long as it's a simple two number combination of addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division. We prepped Rachel a little and picked the math problem 2 x 3. She went up on stage like a champ and told Stevie her problem. He actually said "uh-oh" to her (he laughs for addition and subtraction because they are easier for him), but then solved it just fine. Smart little parrot.

These last three pictures are from the last week of Joy School. Here are five of the six kids performing a few of their favorite songs.

I taught the last day of school. We did a little recap of activities from throughout the year, so we took a nature walk to play at the park behind the hotel.

Here's all six kids with their graduation hats. So glad we got to know all these cute kids and their families a bit more. We'll miss them.