Bailey Family

I just want to get some pictures up before I get into summer break and get busy with kids! So, no cute collages or even pictures that are very good (usually I try to photoshop my bad pictures into some cute filter so it hides my flaws, but nope, today, you get what you get)! Lost first top tooth - pulled it out herself I'll have to put up dance recital videos later (they're not awesome b/c I had no idea how to use my brother's very expensive camera, but they are see-able...mostly) "Singing in the Rain"  (All the classes were given things they wanted to be when they grew up to match the song/costume. Her class were meteorologists.) Jazz dance to some song from High School Musical I didn't recognize (Disney Dancers) "Greatest Race" (from Mater's car tunes) (Nascar Drivers) I'll get the twins' pictures later (they went in opening number clothes and came home in street clothes, so I didn't get thei...

Finally Spring has decided to stay - just at the end of spring break... no, actually, Summer has arrived instead; we skipped spring! But we didn't skip spring break - here's a little before and during: (And thankfully, spring break means the end of the school year and all of our activities and projects and such are ending, leaving us with a completely different kind of busy - the backyard, family fun kind of busy with no teachers to answer to. whoo hoo!) The kids had 3rd quarter awards. Leafer has attempted jail break and we now have a piece of wood over that corner to keep him from attempting further exploration. (We do have Seth take him outside to crawl around in the grass now that it's warm.)  School projects. Carolyn studied greek mythology in ELA and was being some moon goddess...Selene, I think. Each member of the class dressed their part and then stood wax museum style around the room, "coming to life" when it was their turn t...

But maybe not quite fast enough for my taste! I'm about to go on strike if it doesn't warm up and stay warm around here! {Disclaimer...I started this post about 2-3 weeks ago!} Every day the weather has been nice, the kids have seized the day! Kaitlyn learned to ride her bike without training wheels this month.     (Natalie started to learn this past weekend [a couple weekends ago], but she takes her learning of new skills slow and steady. Kaitlyn jumps into everything she does full on.) The day I had to get the van's oil changed plus various other things that were expensive, Alee and I had a little sit in their waiting room. Turns out the fun of the memory game and tablet were no match for the pack of balloons I found fortuitously in my purse! Yea for happy surprises.  Leafer (the turtle, remember?) finally got a decent tank set up. Yes, the men brought in the water hose to fill the tank. That turned out better than expected. :) And the deep w...