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Where does the time go?
I finally transferred pictures from the camera to the computer so I will start with some of those. Hunter earned his bear from his 2nd grade teacher for earning at least 200 reading points. He was the first to earn his in his class and 1 of only about 5 who accomplish this. He also qualified for Spectrum. (the gifted/talented program in our District) for next year. He will change schools and will be with Cole next year. Way to go HUNTER!
The chicks! Every year in Mrs. Roy's 2nd grade class she hatches eggs. It is super exciting for the kids to watch as they hatch. As a matter of fact, that is one of the very reasons children want her for a teacher (great for parents because she is outstanding) Of course they are taken care of by the children during the week in class, but on the weekend a child's name is drawn for the opportunity to take them home! This is the second time we have had this opportunity. (Cole also got the chance when he was in 2nd grade) After the first, it's surprising that I'd give my consent again, I guess it's a little like having a baby, you forget .

Although they look like they're dead, they are not, they're just sleeping. All of them made it back safe and sound on Monday morning.....what a long weekend that was! (She did tell me though, that one year at a students house a cat was kept in the bathroom all weekend to keep it away from the chicks...except it got out once.............Now nobody with pets gets put in the drawing for taking them home. It was just so RARE that they were all laying down and quite. We got them the 2nd weekend so they were starting to try to fly and get out. They pecked at the box NON STOP! We had a lot of visitors that weekend. Word traveled fast whose house they were at!

Cade graduated from Kindergarten!

It's hard to believe he's going to 1st grade! Kindergarten is still comfortable for me because he goes in the morning until 11:25 and we still have the rest of the day to be together, we do lunch, go to the park, shop, and play. It still feels like he's my little boy. When he goes to all day 1st grade, it's a very hard adjustment and for the first few weeks I'll miss him terribly.

Noah will go to 2 hours of preschool in the fall twice a week. I will actually be ALONE for 4 hours a week. That hasn't happened for 13 years!!!!! I'm very excited, even though it isn't really enough time to do anything....I'LL TAKE IT!!!!!
Another huge event in our life is Noah is finally potty trained!!!!!!!!!!! He protested and was the oldest of all of our children to potty train, but when I said today was the day, that's all it took and he was potty trained that day. And he's dry at night consistently! We're really, really excited to be out of diapers!!!! I have been buying them for 13 years solid! Sometimes there have been 2 in diapers.
I have to admit I get baby hungry still, but then I realize what we have just accomplished and I couldn't go back. And there's the fact that I already have 5 kids, I couldn't handle any more, I'm maxed out! And there's the fact that I'd just have ANOTHER boy ( I really believe that would happen). And we don't need one more mouth to feed, we're out of room in the house (we were actually out of room like 3 kids ago), wait a minute...Shawn has a little input on this subject...we're out of money, we'd have to get a new car, (and a house), we have 2 too many as it is :), we can't stand any more noise.....And we're too old!
I guess I'll just have to get a puppy! A girl puppy! I tell everyone it has to be a girl because we already have too many weenies in the house as it is. Sorry! (we really are puppy hungry though.)
School is out!!!!! Yeah!!!!!
We are looking forward to swimming (I love to work on my tan, I sent for some Maui Babe browning lotion that's going to make me goddess like (skin color only... no lotion for the other stuff), and just mellowing out. We love summer!!!. Oh, yeah, I am requesting everyone only wear sandals of some sort. We are having a sock free summer (as much as possible anyway). Socks really are a hard thing for our family....there's just TOO many!