Odds and Ends

We're definitely getting to the end of the school year stuff now. We already did pictures for dance class. The kids and I rode the bus there and back. They don't get to do that very often so they're usually really good when it does happen. But since everyone was on time we got the pictures done before our time slot was up so we got home fairly timely. We had the annual carnival at Holiday's school. They got to hold little bunnies at the petting farm section. Holiday had a baby bunny (that she named Fluffy) and Johnny had a much larger and hairier bunny. They enjoyed the free popcorn. Holiday won cupcakes during the cake walk. The young lady assisting that activity was all business, telling everyone where to stand, stamping hands and making sure the winner got their winnings. I'd guess about age 8-9. Holiday's art club has come to a close and she's bringing all sorts of completed school work home so I need to sort all that out. She's had her combination dance class with some of the younger classes so they can get used to the idea of taking turns on stage and being quiet while watching another class. I swear both of them are taller. They both play so hard that they wear out their shoes on a regular basis, but I'm okay with that. Johnny can recognize letters pretty well now and at least can count 1-12 but then gets lost in the teens but still ends with 20. He's getting there. Holiday has learned so much this year.  They both like educational activity books so we'll probably keep going with that during the summer. We'll keep going to the library and focus back on reading as much as we can. Once dance class comes to a close swim lessons will start up which will be a nice change of pace. We will also need to focus on getting Johnny potty trained too. He's starting to tell us when he needs to go, but only does that half the time. Most of the time when we set him on the potty nothing happens. Every kid is different and Holiday was not like that. I think Johnny will be more of a challenge. David's work has been pretty busy but has been able to break out the skateboard a little now that it's warmed up. He still goes golfing every weekend provided that The First Tee isn't impeding his round. I've been working on fitness lately and have managed to drop around 5 pounds. I've also been working in the garden a lot and man alive...I'm going to have grapes. I'll have to look through my recipe books for stuff, maybe grape leaves too. I spent 15 minutes last night just weaving the vines back into the arbor so they aren't blocking the sun for the peppers and David can mow around it now. I just transplanted the pumpkins and Johnny helped. He helped with leveling the new soil, making little mounds, digging little holes, and then planting the pumpkins. Holiday and Johnny helped with all the new flowers we planted. They both like helping with the watering too. It's seems every year something different does remarkably well (like the grapes) and then other things slack off. We'll see how the pumpkins and zucchini do, they seemed to be late starters this year. The basil and romaine are good. The peppers are kind of "iffy" too.