Spring Roll

 Maren and Linden have both been taking piano lessons this year. Yesterday was their piano festival, where they played songs from memory and an adjudicator took notes and rated them on various things. They will get their notes at their next piano lessons, but really that was not the point of participating. They had the chance to perform in a great big space on a great piano, which was special in itself.

They did great!

Then today was the Corvallis Spring Roll, a bike event just for kids. Maren and Linden got race bibs with numbers, and participated in a great big kids ride around our local park and neighborhood, just a few blocks from our house. It was lots of fun 😊

Happy Mother’s Day

 Since my last blog post, my kiddos have made me proud. Maren had her first school concert of the year. Unfortunately there was a kid who stood right in front of her, blocking her the whole time, but you can sort of make out parts of her in this video – she is the one in the pink sweatshirt on the far left:

Apparently hot cross buns on the recorder was not quite good enough so they learned to play smoke on the water on the ukulele 🤣

Linden spent so much time practicing and practicing, trying to learn to ride her bike:

And then finally actually biking:

So proud of my kids 😊

Happy Mother’s Day!

Favorites

 Linden told me that this is her favorite spot:

A couple of feet off the ground in the magnolia tree in the front yard. 

We have had some lovely weather for tree climbing, gardening, going for a bike rides, and racing scooters with the kid who lives on the corner:

And in this house, it is always good weather for a book:

More soccer, more gardening

Things will be on repeat for a little while. More soccer (Maren is the one in blue in the center):

More gardening:

And more plant discoveries around the yard as spring progresses and new flowers pop up seemingly out of nowhere:

 

Soccer, seeds, and blossoms

 Soccer started Saturday, and Linden’s game was bright and early at 8:30 AM:

Later that day Maren had a friend over and along with Linden they helped me plant some seeds in pots:

And my newly planted peach tree is blooming:

Definitely spring!