Trip to the San Fran Zoo

We took a trip to the zoo for my birthday.  We had to celebrate a little later because Nathan was out of town taking his HUGE radiology test.  That is why he wasn't there for Dyer's birthday too!  I guess it all worked out because I was busy writing my talk and working on a Young Women lesson on my actual birthday to have any fun.  In fact we went out to eat for my birthday before Nathan left and I was Oscar the Crouch.  Sorry family!  I get way too stressed out for talks/lessons.  I'm not sure why because in the end it all turns out fine.  It probably didn't help that it was birthday season and I generally get stressed out around birthdays too because I want everything to be perfect.  Poor Dyer didn't get anything special for his cake topper but everyone told me that he was too young to care or remember.  I still felt bad even though he was super excited that he had a batman figure on top of his cake.

Anyways, we had a great time at the zoo (except for ruining Blakely's blanket-BOO!)  She loves that blanket so I might have to buy her a new one down the road once her blanket finally falls apart.  We ran over it with the stroller and it now has some holes.

It was so cold at the zoo!  I'm glad that Nathan checked the weather and told us to bring jackets.

Giraffes

Giraffe and Zebra

Easton compared to a Gorilla

Gorilla

Lunch break

Tiger 

Hippo

Blair was trying to move Dyer's face to look at the camera and it made him mad...

Classic

And then he was super cranky 

Blair and Nathan watching the hippo

Hippo

Dad with the kids

Peacock

My favorite peacock

My favorite butterfly even though she looks like she is in pain.

If anyone should have a look of pain on their face it should be Easton!

Cute Giraffes

 The kids finally got to play on the new playground.  It was under construction last time we went to the zoo.  It was a really cool playground.  Too bad the pictures don't do it justice.

Dyer playing in the sand pit.

Video of Easton swinging in the hammock.

Easton hitching a ride from the tortoise.

Silly picture

My favorite spider!

My favorite Blakely!

Blakely at 9 months!

Blakely finally said her first word!  Believe it or not it was "more"!  Haha!  I was feeding her mandarin oranges and I kept saying more and sure enough she kept saying more too!  Easton was impressed that she kept saying "more".  A couple days later she started saying "mama".  She has said "dada" too but she doesn't say it very often.  When you try and prompt her to say dada she will either say mama or just do raspberries!  Apparently she associates raspberries with Nathan.

Blakely has also started to pull herself up into a standing position.  She is in the early stages of cruising.  She will take a couple steps holding onto the couch but isn't very confident yet.  She has also taken a couple steps using her toy walker.

Blakely has her two bottom teeth completely in now.  I thought that she was also working on her top teeth but they haven't come through yet.  She was running a temperature last night so I think it is only a matter of time before they break through.  Poor girl was so miserable. Now that she has two teeth she wants to eat anything and everything and she basically does!  Valerie gave her a chicken bone on the 4th and she LOVED it!  We took it away from her briefly because we were worried a small part of the bone would come off and she flipped out!  She basically likes everything you give her but just this last week she has started to become a little picky.  She wasn't a fan of Nathan's french toast last weekend and today I cut up a hot dog into small pieces and she spit out every piece she put in her mouth.

 Blakely is a big girl!  The only thing nice about her being so big is that she fits in the same size clothes Blair wore in the summer months.  Blair was 3 months older than Blakely.  Blakely is currently in 12 month clothes and she is wearing size 4 shoes!  She basically skipped size 3 shoes!

Blakely hasn't had her 9 month well baby check up yet so I don't know her current statistics.  I couldn't get her an appointment until the 23rd of this month so she will technically be 10 months by then.  I'm curious how big she really is.

Blakely is signing "all done" now.  I've been really bad at signing with her and I need to do better!  She
just started waving "hi" to people.

Blakely's all about scrunching her nose right now and she pretty much does it all the time.

I finally had enough courage to leave Blakely with her first teenage babysitter!  Of course she did fine and surprisingly I think I did pretty well too!

End of the school year for Easton

Easton's school didn't get out of school until June 19th.  They had some fun things the last week of school.  They invited all the families in for Ocean Day where the kids got to teach their families about all the ocean animals they learned about from their Ocean unit.  All the students made power points and then they had a cute presentation.  Easton's teacher made a video of all the pictures she took of the kids throughout the year.  It was really cute!

Easton's class

Silly face!

Close up

Video of the class singing a cute song.

Video of Easton reading his part:

Video: Easton's ocean joke.

Easton was kind of upset that someone knew the answer to his joke.

They also had an end of the unit Ocean Day where the kids rotated around all the first grade classrooms to different stations.

Touching shrimp, clams, oysters.  They also touched crabs and salmon at this station.

Easton holding a live lobster.

Last day of school. YAY!

We were running late so I didn't get all the pictures I wanted.  I figured I could get some after school but that didn't happen....I did manage to get one of Easton and Alex together.  We got one of them on the first day of school.

First day of school.

Blair and Blakely

Blair and Dyer fighting over who is going to push Blakely.

Library Summer Programs

We have two libraries in Vacaville and both have summer programs that happen to be right in the middle of when Blair has gymnastics (one on Tues. and one on Thurs.).  I tried to change Blair to the morning class but not enough girls signed up so we had to move back to the afternoon.  Luckily for us Valerie decided she would take the boys to the Tues. summer programs.  The boys seem to really like the programs and I'm sad that Blair doesn't get to participate.  Thanks to Valerie for taking the boys and taking pictures.

June 10th:

Watching the juggler eat fire.

Easton and Dyer

Playing in the fountain afterwards.

Drying off

So wet!

June 17th:

Watching the bubble lady.

Pure joy!

Easton getting in trouble by our "favorite" librarian.  "Dan the librarian man" aka my sister's boyfriend.

Bubbles!  I really hope Dyer wasn't trying to eat them like snowflakes.

More bubbles!

 June 24th:

Puppeteer

Dyer and Kyron

Now that Valerie is out of town the boys now have to come to gymnastics.  Bummer!