Fun Weekend

This weekend my cousins Ben and Nicole came over to play with me and go to a water park.  We had lots of fun playing Lego, playing at my new neighborhood playground and then going to Bull Run Waterpark.  This place was awesome it had slides and playgrounds and shallow, medium or deep water sections.   The playground had a giant bucket that would splash you and I did that several times, once Daddy did it with me and hid behind me!

Swinging

The playground close to my house is finally built and mostly done (they still need to add grass around the outside of the mulched area).  I LOVE IT.  Every single morning and night I, and 20 other neighbor kids, have come to play on it and swing until our parents make us go home. 

Abrakadoodle

Every Monday at school a company called Abrakadoodle comes to Montassori of Gainesville and works with the pre-Kindergartner students on art.  Here are Dexter's paintings from the first two weeks.

This is a water paint background with pencil and crayon people, spider and sun rising.

 Turtle was made with paint and cut out paper

 Explaining the pictures to mom.

Rocking out to my artwork!

Lego Masterbuilder

Dexter still loves building and playing with Lego.  His latest build is from the Lego movie - Cloud Cuckoo Palace.  Enjoy his video :)

Update

 Since returning from Florida I got to see my cousins twice on their way to and from Nags Head, NC. I had a great visit with them each time.  Also since returning from Florida we worked on our front porch flower garden - we placed a stone boarder all around and planted a few more flowers.  We had in ground sprinklers installed a few weeks back so hopefully this time next year our lawn and garden looks great!

Great-Nana turns 90!

This year my Great-Nana Moynihan turns 90 years old!  To celebrate lots of her family gathered in Fernandina Beach where she lives.

Here is everyone who came (about 1/3 of her family) - Amanda, Cynthia, Shane, Beth, Great-Nana, Grandfather, Cindy, Ned, Katie, Rob, Daddy, Mommy and me.

Great-Nana was so surprised that we all came and was so happy to see us.  She wished that we all could live as long as she has and have a wonderful life like she has.

Great-nana also had a beautiful necklace of Queen Nefertiti - who I told her I learned about at school for our Egypt presentation.

Aside from the birthday party I spent a lot of time in the water - oceans and swimming pools. I had the best time ever with my Daddy - he taught me how to boogie board!!

I even met a turtle one day when walking with mommy and Nana.

I can't wait to go back to Florida in August for Nana's 70th birthday & retirement party!

Happy Father's Day - Play Ball!

Today we went to a Potomac Nationals game, our local AAA baseball team.  The Nationals' won the game and after the game all the kids and dads got to run the bases.  After that they set up two T-ball fields in the outfield for local t-ball teams to play on.  We played one inning and I had a great hit!  It was a fun day with my family and now my T-ball season is officially over.  I think I will try T-ball again in the fall.

Conversations

Tonight I had a conversation with Dexter I want to remember in 13 years in case he changes how he feels.

Dexter:  One of my teacher's kid is graduating high school tonight and going to college.
Mom:  Oh that's exciting for your teacher.  When you go to college I am going to cry so much!
Dexter: Why?
Mom: Because I will be sad that I don't get to see you every day.
Dexter: Why?
Mom: Because when you go to college you will live there and not in my house anymore.
Dexter: {long pause and starts to cry}  I will miss you so much.

Here is a photo of a birdhouse we painted.  Aunt Beth bought the bird house for Dexter when we visited the botanical gardens last weekend.

Moveable Alphabet

At my school I practice sounding out words and spelling small words using something called "moveable alphabet".  At school we have objects and colored letters to help sound out words and today I practiced this with one of my home workbooks.  I am getting good at sounding out words and I can't wait until I can read more!

This picture is from my birthday at school, I was showing Daddy how to spell :)

Memorial Gardens & International Day

Friday we went to Richmond to the Lewis Ginter Memorial Gardens.  We met up with Aunt Beth, Uncle Shane and cousin Cynthia.  We had a great time looking at the flowers, treehouse, butterflies and the water splash area of the gardens.

Today Dexter's school, Montessori of Gainesville, had their International Day celebration and Kindergarten graduation.  We heard songs and dances from the countries of Norway, Phillipines, Thiland, Iraq, Scotland and Egypt.  Dexter's class did Egypt - they read a poem and sang two songs.  The boys wore traditional Eqyptian robes and caps, the girls wore colorful dresses with scarfs and beads.   The 4 kindergarteners in his class dressed up as famous Egyptian kings and queens.

Dexter and his teacher Ms. Kyou-Bin

Port Discovery

Today we went to an awesome kids museum called Port Discovery in Baltimore, MD.  There was so much to do and not enough time to do everything, despite being there 5 hours and being the last ones to leave the building.  There was an awesome play structure that covered 3 floors and then tons of things to play with.  Our favorite section was about Egypt.

Happy Birthday Luke

Today the final cousin turned 5.  Now every cousin is 5! (Plus old man Cole is soon to be 7)

Hope you have a great day and I can't wait to see you in a few more days!

Hanging out

Just hanging out this weekend.  Daddy is traveling again this week for work so I am playing with my dog Ophelia a lot and building awesome Lego structures like my pirate ship below.

Slip and slide!

We finally played with my birthday present slip and slide.  I played with my neighbors Aurora, Josh and Kyle.  Even Daddy was sliding.   It was tons of fun!

Ben & Nicole turn 5

I spent the weekend in Maryland for cousins Ben and Nicole's 5th birthday party.  We had a great time playing together, and with their other cousins Parker and Caroline.  Their party was a pirate theme. We went swimming, to a playground and then home for cake and presents. The next day we went to a farm and picked strawberries!  I had a great weekend with them!