Where did June go?

Here's the strangest thing - our calendar says that it is July tomorrow. It seems like it should be right - 30 days in June, blah, blah, blah - but, where did June actually go to...that is the question! Another question at our house is - where did the need for the 18 month clothes go? Ashlyn seems to have hit a growth spurt recently - leaving some very cute, extremely lightly used future hand-me-downs for Avery, Gale and Baby Berge.

Colson had an exciting 3 1/2 birthday event. Alright, not so much of an event...but, a mini celebration. We want to do a little focus for the 1/2 birthdays in this holiday birthday household! For this one, we made our own pizzas from scratch. As Colson was sitting down at the table he asked, "Where is everyone else?" It was just the four of us...not quite the birthday event he's used to! But, he had fun - pizzas were tasty and there were a couple Toy Story guys as gifts. Ah, the Disney Pixar brainwashing continues!

Here are a couple pics from the last few days...


Here's Colson all decked out for Splash Day. During the summer at school, they let the kids run wild through all sorts of fun sprinklers every Friday. I told him I had to get a picture of him being a walking billboard for Disney Cars - the hat, the glasses, the shirt, the suit, the shoes. Not pictured, the towel.




Here's what happens to a boy around 5 pm when no nap mixes with a couple hours of swimming.


And, this was from tonight. They were watching a Leap Frog learning to spell/read video. Ashlyn hung on for a little while, got bored, went to the other room to "read" to herself. Colson was fascinated, headed to his whiteboard and spelled "Cat"...very proud of himself!

Happy Wednesday!

Well, happy almost Thursday...it's 9:35PM here. This will be a non-picture post, but I thought I'd put a quick check-in on here...plus, there was some Kodak gallery pics that were sent out yesterday and not much has happened since then!
This week has been filled with all sorts of fun events. Colson started his first day of Preschool on Monday. He is very excited! He is the youngest in his "group" of kids - so he was greeted by all his friends that had moved up there in the past several weeks/month-ish. He is feeling very much the big boy in his new setting.
Ashlyn is busy being darling. She "graduated" from her Little Gym class last week. Okay, she finished the winter/spring semester last week. There was a medal ceremony. It felt serious! She started this week with the summer semester. We've also been doing playdates with one of her little friends from gym. It is cute to watch her play with someone else her age. Lots of parallel play, but some adorable interaction too.
We'll have more pictures soon...these crazy kids are always doing something picture-worthy!