We Made it!

Lucy, Jensen and Mommy made it to the end of their school years. It wasn't easy but we did it! 

Lucy was the first graduate around here. She finished up in May which wasn't exactly the best thing for Mommy while she finished up teaching for the year. She sure missed her friends and wanted mommy to play with her. This is Lucy on her last day of preschool. They didn't have a graduation for her since she still has one more year of preschool (sigh).

I also snapped a picture of Lucy with her friend Wyatt. Remember they exchanged love notes a month ago? They might just meet up again for Kindergarten.  

She loved all three of her teachers Ms. Megan, Ms. Tami and Ms. Tanisha. 

Jensen had a few field trips and an unforgettable cockroach performance at the end of his school year. He got to go twice to the splash pads with both of his classes. I was able to chaperone both of them. 

As for the performance, all of the kindergartners dressed up as different bugs. Jensen was one cute cockroach. I am sure I will never say a cockroach is cute ever again. He was really into his mustache that they gave him for his costume. He kept feeling it and making sure it stayed right in place. His hat also liked to fall down so he couldn't see half the time what he was doing. 

The family attended Jensen's graduation ceremony. They read his name and he shook his teacher's hands then left the stage without his diploma. He got a good chuckle from everyone. This picture is blurry but is the only one (big sigh!)

Jensen was blessed to have two amazing teachers this school year. Ms. Sharp is his Autism teacher. She took great care of him and gave us a lot of support. 

Mrs. Lewis is his general education teacher. He would spend all morning with her before going back to Ms. Sharp's class. Jensen learned a lot from these amazing teachers! 

Of course last minute I was making their thank you gifts. These were bouquets of whiteboard markers with paper flowers on top. 

Jensen had his last day a week before mommy did. Lucy was so glad to have him home to play with her. Mommy was too. 

Mommy wrapped up her first year of teaching 5th grade in the second week of June. It was a great year and I really loved my class this year. You don't think you get attached to your kids when you teach virtually but you do! 

Jensen's and Mommy's summer break didn't last too long since we are both doing summer school. Keeps us out of trouble I guess!

Lucy 4 and a Half

This is all about Lucy at 4 and a half years old.

In no particular order.

Lucy got her first love note from a boy in her preschool class. They have been fun to watch this past school year. Lucy would always say "Hi Wyatt" and he would just look the other way. This past week his mom told me that Wyatt had confessed his love for Lucy to her. We both laugh since we both can't believe they are only four and already writing love notes. He is pretty cute though. Maybe in 12 more years you can send him a love note back.

Lucy is all girl. She loves jewelry and is starting to think about earrings. We went to church this past week and she showed up with these jewel stickers on her ears. She did this all by herself. She didn't act too excited though when we were at the store to get them pierced. I don't want to push it until she is ready. 

She is always making funny faces. She taught herself to do selfies on all of our electronic devices. Both Quincy and I spend time weekly deleting these snapshots. 

Lucy has grown to love her preschool class. She really missed her class and teacher from last year but she really enjoys going and has made some new friends. She cracks Quincy up with her backpack or suitcase as she calls it. She wheels it through the halls and into class with her little strut.

Lucy is a Jimmy Fallon fan. Jensen and her act out some of the skits that he has done such as Tight Pants and Africa/Toto camping skit. One time Jimmy played War but with water. Quincy thought this would be a great FHE activity. The kids loved it. She enjoys playing any game.

Lucy is my shopping partner. I always drag her out of the house to go shopping with me. We went to Albertsons one afternoon and she saw little shopping carts that said Future Shoppers on it. I almost denied her of pushing this small cart but since Duncan's car seat takes up my shopping cart I let her. I am so glad I did. This just put the biggest smile on her face. She still talks about it and asks if this is where we are going to shop.

She took little minions for her Valentine treat to her preschool class. We were glad Twinkies came back.  

Lucy sometimes goes to work with Quincy. One day it must of been pretty boring or her daddy worked her to death and she crashed on the desk while drawing.

Lucy is constantly all over Duncan. I even had to make her a behavior chart where she would get a sticker every hour she didn't bother him. It actually really helped. She loves to play with his toes and fingers. We have to remind her that they are attached and we want them to stay that way.

Lucy has the best daddy ever. He comes to all of her tea parties and he reads her books every night before bed.

We love our Lucy Locket!

Summer of 2013

These pictures are from last summer. They have been on my phone and I keep saying I am going to blog them. Today is the day.  I thought I was going to do a blog at the end of the summer to wrap up our fun but instead I had lots of other things to think about at the end of summer. 

I am sad because some of these pictures are blurry but I just love them anyway. 

Quincy had tickets to the 51's game from work. It was fireworks night so we took the kids. They did pretty well to sit through the game. One lady in front of us gave us their extra pair of sunglasses that they passed out that night. The kids were all over those. Another lady behind us kept saying how good they were to sit there. She ended up being one of the player's girlfriends. She said Jensen deserved a signed baseball from her boyfriend. So after the game she took Jensen and I down to the dugout for a signed ball.  Jensen thought that was pretty cool and even slept with the ball that night. The fireworks didn't disappoint either children. 

Since I don't have work over the summer we decided to get a summer pass to the children's museum. We tried to go once a week. It was perfect since I was pregnant. I would just sit down in the nice air conditioned building while the kids played. Jensen's favorite spot is the car where you can change the tire on a car. Lucy loves the art area or the wind tunnel. They both love the new water room. The Kanets also had a pass and would join us often. The new museum is way fun and hopefully we will use our pass here soon before it runs out for the year. 

Our Tuesdays for the summer were taken up with dance and t-ball classes at the Hollywood Rec Center. Lucy would go first and then Jensen would have his class. Lucy loved her teacher and we loved watching her try to skip across the room, dance with their fairy wands and doing plies in the mirror. Jensen was pure entertainment in his t-ball class. I just wanted to bring popcorn and sit on the bleachers and laugh. He had the most patient teacher ever! Mrs. T. He was the typical 5 year old that would chase the ball wherever it was hit or he would have his glove on his head when a ball was hit his way. He did love running the bases and even got pretty good at hitting the ball off the tee. They even let Lucy in her tutu hit sometimes. This picture below is my favorite but of course it is blurry. These two can be the best of friends when they want to be.

Grandma Cindy sent a book to the kids about a girl who makes forts out of boxes. Lucy ate this book right up and wanted every box in the house to become a new castle or ship. Little did we know that we would be needing these boxes for our move. 

Our last summer adventure to share was to the park for a little splash pad. We got to meet two capybaras at the park that night. A lady had these two huge rats for pets. She let the kids pet them. I stayed a good distance back and took pictures. She said she lets them run around her house like dogs and they even sleep on her bed with her. I was glad the kids didn't ask to have one. They reminded me of those nasty rats on Princess Bride (Thanks Di for that reference!).

Walker Kids Smile for the Camera

Mom and I ventured out to get pictures taken when she was here for the week after his birth. We had a hard time narrowing down our favorites. Here is our top 20 out of 80.

Duncan Jesse:

 

 

Lucy Jane:

 

 

Jensen Quincy:

All 3 Kiddos: