Big girls

 Maren and Linden keep growing. Last week Linden bridged from Daisies to Brownies in Girl Scouts. 

You can see that her Daisy vest is much too small for her now, even though it was at least a size too big when we got it for her. She is super tall, the tallest kid in her class at the moment. For her brownie vest I bought the size that Maren is using right now. Hopefully that one will last the two years that she is at this level!

And Maren has passed a major milestone this week:

She is finally tall enough to safely use the seatbelt in our car without a booster seat. She has been waiting about two years for this, and lately has been wanting to check every couple of weeks. Last I checked a few weeks ago she was still half an inch too short, but this week she made it!

Wind down

 Last week the kids had “hat day“ at school. This is what they wore:

 

Linden was going to make two eyes to tape onto her cat hat, but she ran out of time so she decided it would be a cyclops cat, which was infinitely better. Maren didn’t have a hat she wanted to wear so she made one.

Things are starting to wind down for the year. Maren had her last volleyball game of the season. She is number three here. Volleyball at this age is mostly about learning to serve, and they rarely do a return so this picture is a little misleading, but it looks like they are really playing 😂

On Saturday Linden had her last soccer game. She scored two goals! Last week she scored a goal and another parent caught it on video:

It has been fun watching the kids learn and grow, but it will be nice not to have games and practices to take them to 😊

My goofy kiddos ❤️

 Today Jeff and the kids took me out for breakfast and gave me lots of cards and chocolate and flowers ❤️

And just before bed, a silly, goofy, funny… thing:

Happy Mother’s Day 😊

Summer preview

 Today was super warm – high of 86°– and it felt very much like summer. We have mostly just been plugging along like normal, with work, school, and all the usuals. 

This weekend though the kids went to “spring camp” with Girl Scouts. That meant that Maren stayed two nights in a cabin at camp, and Linden went for the day. Canoeing, archery, learning about wildlife, campfires, s’mores, and the whole camp caboodle. Jeff and I stayed home and had time to get things done like bike maintenance and ticking things off  the household to-do list. We even went out for lunch.

I have one picture from one of Maren’s leaders of Maren canoeing. Unfortunately the leader with Linden‘s group forgot to take any photos. But here are some soccer and swim lesson in photos instead :-)