Saturday, June 15, 2013

Father's Day card

Benjamin brought this Father's Day card home from school yesterday.  I thought it was very cute!  He said, "Sorry, Dad, they didn't have red, so I had to make it yellow."  He knows Dad's favorite color!


"I can hug you"  Daddy redeemed the coupon right away!

This was on the inside.  Benjamin wrote..."you play wych (with) me. Love, Benjamin"

Benjamin still has a week and a day of school left.  However, he will only be going 3 more days until we pack, move, etc.  I can't believe how much he has grown and learned in kindergarten.  He can read, write sentences, add, subtract.  He has mixed feelings about the end of the school year.  One day, he's very excited to be done, but the next he's disappointed because he says he likes school and will miss his friends.
We pulled Paul out of preschool at the end of May, since Jonathan wouldn't be going to church anymore after that.  He was so excited, and still gets excited when he asks, and we tell him it's not a school day!  He seemed to like it fine once he was at school, but he was always telling me he didn't want to go because he was scared at school.  I'm hoping that he'll be more comfortable in a more traditional preschool setting where the teachers don't rotate and change so frequently.  He was also intimidated by the classmates who "made bad choices and had to sit in the thinking chair."  Nothing we can do about that--there's always some of those in a classroom! =)

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Camping on Cape Cod

The boys had their first camping experience on Saturday night.  (We were going to go Friday, too, but it poured all day and night.)  We went to the Cape with some families from church.  They've been asking us to go along with them for years, but this was the first time we finally made it.  Benjamin and Paul loved it!  They loved playing with their friend Jason and his trucks at the campsite the best.  On Saturday, we went to see the Atlantic one last time.  The waves were pretty big, because of the passing storm.  On Sunday, we went for a little hike and a canoe ride on a large pond in the state park we were staying in.  Unfortunately, I just a got a few pictures of us at the beach.