Friday-Will's graduation

It rained so hard right before Will's graduation ceremony began, it was awful.  All the seats out on the field were wet, and empty.  But then the clouds lightened a little and people started drying them off and filling them up.  It stayed dry right until the end and then rained just a little.  Afterwards, the sun came out just long enough for people to get some nice pictures, perfect timing. 

Riel's talent show/recital

Rielee played the piano at the school's talent show today.  She did a great job.  She really had fun when, at the end of the show, each class got to come out on the floor and dance.  She was all over the place, doing cartwheels and flips, really getting into it.

 
 Ava, sporting a puffed up eye, Rielee, and Harper after the show.   Ava had run into the wall this morning but her eye didn't look bad until after her nap.  Rielee had her piano recital tonight, and again, did a great job. 

Rainy morning playdate/Rielee's twisters

 Bridget and Jillian came up to play this morning.  The little girls were busy with toys while Jillian at first watched some cartoons before joining in.  They all got along quite well, as long as Bridget didn't touch  Ava or Harper's babies.  Fortunately, we had a spare baby she could play with.   Ava and Harper even let Bridget drink out of their sippy cups.

 I bought some large crayons for the girls and they loved them.  Much easier to grip, Ava did some great coloring, even filling in the center of the butterfly and flower.  Harper hasn't yet mastered her grip, but she draws pretty well anyway. 

 They learned a valuable lesson from Rielee today-how to make a silly face.

 After the girls left,  Rielee stayed with me for a little while.  We walked over to her house and she fed her chickens, then she wanted me to push her on the big swing.  She loves "twisters" and we always have to say the same thing when I twist her up:  I say "round and round and round she goes, where she stops, nobody knows, except Grandma", she sings the alphabet.  I asked her why and she told me that Auna told her she had to.  She had about a dozen twisters and didn't get dizzy or sick at all. 

Reader board

The girls had a great year of sports!

Ava-pretty in pink
As we were driving down the freeway this afternoon, Papa briefly ran over the rumple strip on the side of the road, Ava told him "Papa, you're driving bad!"

Puzzles

The girls wanted to try the 24-piece puzzles today.  They have lots of enthusiasm and not so much patience, however, and needed  help, so Papa helped Ava and I worked with Harper and it went pretty well. The last time we did these, I tried to help them both and that was a fiasco.  Harper wanted to do the ones with Scooby-Do and Pluto, of course. After putting together 3, we switched to the easier puzzles that they could do on their own. 

Will's graduation party

Will is graduating next week and had his graduation party yesterday.  I still find it hard to believe this can be happening, since it just seems like yesterday that he was a little boy, running around the neighborhood...

and now he has grown up to be a very handsome guy.

And these two, wow, weren't they were just 3 and 4 years old, playing with Pokemon and riding around in their little Jeeps? 

Timer went off!

Potty training is going really well with the twins-as long as we use the kitchen timer.  If you ask them to go potty without the timer having gone off,  they will often refuse.  But if the timer goes off, boy, they both yell "timer went off!" and run in the bathroom, no arguments at all.  And sometimes they don't even have to hear it, if we have forgotten to set the timer, Papa will just announce that the timer went off and they will respond the same way.