May

This is basically how May has happened so far....

1. Our post-ice skating snack. Turns out Qiana was as good at eating ice as she was at skating on it. In this pic, Ez was plotting against me and my sno-cone since they spilled half of theirs. He subsequently carried out his plan and soon the remaining traces of the sugary treats were only left on the table and his *gulp* white shirt.

2. The First Grade Spanish Immersion classes put on a few plays for the parents the other day. Siena's part was the third little pig, which she rocked! I'm amazed at how much Spanish the other children had learned in just one year.

3. I'm slowly catching on to the fact that my time with the kids all to myself is limited. It's taken long enough for me to figure this out! So we've been doing things a little more impulsively. The kids finally got library cards, we've created sidewalk chalk masterpieces together, gone on bike rides and walks, and had picnics way more often than is necessary. It helps me feel a little less guilty about how badly I'm messing up my children.

4. The other day we had a late lunch, so when it was dinner time, none of us were hungry (everybody knows that story.) Well, after pjs were on and teeth were brushed the kids started complaining about being hungry. Once we realized that we forgot to feed them something--anything--before bed, we searched the cupboards for something to eat. Incidentally, I had NOT done the grocery shopping yet and every shelf in the refrigerator was a sorry sight. I did scrounge up enough things to make nachos, so we served that... on a communal platter... without utensils. As we ate, the girls started asking questions:

Qiana: Are we eating off this one plate because we are poor?

and later...
Qiana: Are we eating with our hands because we don't have spoons?
Siena: No, it's because it's faster this way and we need to go to sleep.

Proud parenting moment, for real.

5. We put Qiana in soccer with Siena. She is a natural at sports and she tears it up out with the boys on the field. Siena has kinda stepped down her game a bit since her sister started and we feel like soccer really isn't her thing anyway, so we're taking her out and giving extracurricular activities a break for a month or so. We'll see how it goes. In the meantime she's going to stay in piano, since she excels in that area. If she wants to, we'll give a ballet studio a try.