Summer, Summer, Summertime...Part 1

Part 1 of our summer:
I have posted a bunch of pictures from our summer, June-Aug (this is about all I can do these days!!). Elsie was promoted from preschool, we had a few trips to Fresno to visit family, a trip to Morro Bay with family, a trip to Hume Lake with friends, and some daily trips we took as a family. We had a fun and busy summer. It was nice to have Matt home more also. It is always hard to see the summer coming to a close. But, we are excited to have Elsie start Kindergarten next week, should be an exciting fall!!

Carson being Carson

There were many pictures taken of Carson sleeping in the most random positions...
she had the pillow and bear on top of her

Playing in the mud

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Toby wanted to get in on the action!

Picnic lunch

We told Elsie when she turned 5 she had to stop sucking her fingers, and if she did we would take her to get her nails done (every time we painted her nails we had to leave it off of her first two that she sucked!!). So, she did it, totally on her own, cold turkey! She got to choose her color and we added a flower to it

Toby sleeping on his stomach for the first time-8months

Little Giants fan!

Elsie's preschool promotion.
Elsie was in charge of leading "zoo-phonics"to the class. I'm not sure if I had mentioned this before, but Elsie was able to have a great preschool experience. She was in a "reverse-integration" preschool in which they streamlined typical functioning kids into a special needs classroom. This way the special needs kids would have leaders and student helpers in their classroom and build relationships with typical kids. And the typical students would learn about compassion and learn about all kinds of people. It was a great program, Elsie did great and loved it.

William joined her

Slippery fish, slippery fish, sliding through the water...

Tuna fish, tuna fish splashing in the water...

a class song

Elsie getting her award from her teacher, Mrs. Patty

Yeah Elsie!

Granny BooBoo came to watch! She took us to Elsie's favorite lunch spot...Subway!

Mrs. Patty and her support staff

Weeks of activities...

Elsie was able to take another dance class. This time she took it with her friend Kaylin! They had a great time together. They learned tap, ballet, and jazz. They are true ballerina princesses!

I'm not sure why Tobin is crying...maybe because he has a girls hat on!! Sorry Toby, this is only the start of what is to come from your sisters!

Carson got to take a gymnastics class. She has a lot of energy and is pretty fearless, so we thought this would be perfect for her. She actually did a great job doing the class. We are going to sign her up again this fall!

Daddy showing her how to do a pencil roll!

forward roll

spider walk

Toby is FINALLY rolling over! Although he doesn't like being on his tummy for long

The school counselors at Matt's school got a staff appreciation award from the alumni association at WHS

Toby taking his first bites! he hasn't slowed down since...

Elsie giving it a try

Carson REALLY likes to hold Toby...Toby, not so much!

Toby at 6 months