May Pictures

Here are a bunch of random pictures from May.

Painting on our new easel.

Anna decided to dress Matthew up.

Silly kids in the back of the car.

Anna and I like to have tea time.  She drinks herbal tea while I read aloud from poetry and chapter books.

Reading books together.

Every once in a while we like to have a snacky lunch- basically cheese, crackers, fruit, veggies, etc.

Hanging out on the floor.

Getting a Haircut

I gave Matthew a haircut a few days ago and Anna decided that she wanted to get her hair cut too.  After some consideration, I decided to do it myself.  Here are the pictures.  She looks so grown up now.

Here she is with her hair all wet and long.  She's ready for her haircut.

I was concentrating very hard on making the haircut even all around.

And here she is!  It's basically a bob with the hair cut straight across at her shoulders.

She looks so grown up now.

Geocaching Adventure

We decided to take the family on a little hike to a nearby park.  Steve did a little research and found 3 geocaches along the trails.  It has been a long time since we went geocaching as a family, Anna was a baby in a backpack, so we decided to go for it.

It was the perfect day for a hike, cool and a little cloudy but not cold.  We found the first cache easily under a log in a black container.  The kids liked putting a little plastic lizard in the box and signing the register.  We then headed to the second.  That's where our luck in finding caches ran out.  It's hard to find caches in the green overgrown brush with bored kids running around.  We weren't able to find the second or the third caches at all.  That's okay, though, we had a lot of fun exploring the trails and listening to the birds.