May

We started May with a picnic in Kleiner Park in Meridian with Emily and the twins.  Cece decided to eat lunch on the rock and Lilli put raspberries on her fingers like olives, I don't think I've ever seen that before!

And now that Cece is big enough to hold on to the big swings, she loves swinging.  She never would swing in the baby ones.

Hannah moved back to Kansas for the summer so we are babysitting her hammock and have already spent hours in it.  Cece loves Marcel!

The girls decided to build a "road" for their toys with all of our games.  It was a huge mess and hard to clean up but they were having so much fun.

Selfie :)

We got this fun new game from Katrina and they love it.  I was so surprised to see Cece could match the bugs to the answer sheet.

Our house has very limited hiding spots but that has never stopped us from playing.  One day I found her in the play pen.

A different day, all the games got dumped out because the pieces and cards were perfect for pretend money.

Lilli has been spending so much time in our office drawing, cutting and gluing, etc.  One day I tried to go through there to switch the laundry but Lilli didn't want me to so she offered to switch it for me.  She had to use the step stool and then climb almost into the washer to reach the clothes but she did great!

Halfway through the month Marcel's jazz band had a year-end party (jazz band is an after-school club so they don't go all the way to the end of the school year) so we brought brownies to the party and let the girls finally play on the instruments.

And after the party, we went to Roaring Springs and got our passes picked up!

We love forts!

Lilli graduated preschool and is headed to kindergarten in the fall!

 

On the first nice day after graduation we had a classic summer day: bubbles, bugs, and chalk!

Coloring is one thing that the girls can usually do without fighting :)

We went to the Youth Ranch and got a new game.  We love GuessWho?

Marcel and I went to Parade of Homes in Boise for the first time. The houses were crazy expensive, but so fun to walk through.

Marcel is on breakfast duty on Saturday mornings and it is just about my favorite part of the week!

Lilli has been so fascinated in taking pictures!

Marcel and I have started running together again.  And we were talking about signing up for the same race we did last year and Marcel said "how about we do the 10K together this year?"  Okay, deal. Official training starts the day after school is out.

April

At the beginning of April, Lilli figured out the pattern of numbers and was able to type to 59.  She can just about count to 100 on her own but writing them out is hard again.  We need to practice more.

She lost her first tooth and then a few days later she went to the dentist and he decided she needed to have the next one pulled because the permanent tooth was set so far back.

I also made peanut butter for the first time.  Cece was not a fan of this process.  She kept saying loud, loud.  Now I don't even have to have the blender out, but if I say "let's make a smoothie" she says "oh no, too loud."  This batch of peanut butter wasn't very good.  We ate it on toast with honey, but I've since made a second batch (using peanut oil) and it was much better!

Cece also found quite the personality and a level of stubbornness.  She won't do something if it doesn't fit her plans.  In this picture I had asked her to get a pull-up so she could get the dirty one off.  She said no and crossed her arms in frustration at me.

In a much happier moment, I let her go without pants (it happens quite frequently) and eat cheese, her 2 favorites!

We had a fun month of crafts too!

 

Our "little" envelope date this month was to play tennis.  We drove down to the middle school and had a great time.  Neither of us are very good, but we still got a few good volleys.  And we had a great time!

I got an email from Regal Theaters with free passes to see an early release Age of Adaline.  We both really enjoyed the movie and won't ever forget the movie was saw security guards.  We had to have our phones completely powered off, and because they were so worried about recording devices, they made Marcel put his watch (that checks his heart rate and steps) because the screen can illuminate.  If they saw anything illuminate during the movie you were automatically kicked out, no questions asked, and they felt it was better for us to be overly cautious, then to have something happen!

Marcel's birthday fell on a Sunday, so we celebrated with the girls on Friday.

Lilli typed Marcel this message on her own!

We made yummy, low sugar oatmeal raisin cookies, because they are his favorite.

The girls each made Marcel a birthday card

On Saturday, we headed to Tucanos, because you have to go there for your free meal.

And even though I didn't want our envelope dates to be used for birthdays, we had run out of time for the "big" envelope date for April, and I knew it was one Marcel had been asking to do for a really long time.  BOWLING!

Then we went to Fast & Furious 7!