Last Day of Preschool

Last week Thursday was Jackson's last day of preschool.  I can't believe that the year has already gone by for him.  Although he still remains our extremely shy boy, he did make some new friends.  Thankfully some of those friends will also be joining him at Hamilton Elementary next year.  And now he's developed such an interest in learning.  Yeah!  Last summer he didn't want to work on anything related to school and now he loves working on "school" stuff.  We're so excited for him to begin kindergarten next year! 

Such a big guy!  He was so proud to have finished school - he wouldn't let me forget his picture!

Jackson and his best buddy Ben.  The two boys go to daycare together and were in preschool together and have become the best of friends.  One of the teachers who started halfway through the year thought they were brothers because they were always together!

Whitecaps

Fun night at the Whitecaps!

Even Lydia liked it ... Mom was a bit tired after a long week at school

Friday night, just the 5 of us journeyed to the Whitecaps game.  It certainly was odd just being the 5 of us ... surprisingly it wasn't too crazy!  The weather was gorgeous and the boys were in heaven watching baseball!  (they are definitely taking after their dad!).  I'm thinking we'll be back at some point soon!

Tulip Time

Brendan and Dad watching the Dutch Dancers.

Big smiles in front of some of the tulips (there weren't many!).  Can you find Brendan in the background?

Who would want to take pictures by the tulips when you can take them by statues???? Odd boys....

Time to go home....

An more statues...

I love the cheesy smile:)  This little one makes us laugh constantly!

Yeah!  3 kids all together... but not really looking.

Wow... we are busy with 3!  But I have a picture proving that I do actually hang out with the kids.  Usually just Dad makes the pictures:)

Soooo excited for the parade to begin (even though we got soaked from the rain!)

And this is why we go to the parades... the boys LOVE them!

Happy

Lots of smiles from Lydia as she has begun to love playing (biting) her toys.

Lydia if my first child that just loves rolling all around the floor ... the bad part is that you really have to watch what's on the floor!

3 reasons to smile!  I was trying to get a picture of Lydia and the boys decided they wanted to get in the picture as well ... Lydia didn't like having to wait for them (by the way, that's Brendan's new "cheese" smile)

We put these PJ's on Brendan this weekend and realized how much he's grown - they were so tight!  But we love his little diaper butt ... looks like he did too!

Yesterday at Sunday School Jackson had to draw a picture of what makes him happy on one side of the paper and what makes him sad on the other side.  On the happy side, he drew a picture of me (love!) and on the other side he drew a picture of a spider.  As we asked him about it, he told me that I always make him happy .. (sigh).  As the end of the school year draws near and the craziness of ending the school year begins, I always feel that sense of frustration that I can't be 100% at anything that I do ... being a wife, mom, teacher, friend, etc.  It seems especially difficult this year as things just keep piling up but talking with Jackson yesterday made me realize what I truly value most and how blessed I am to be the mom of these 3 precious children.  One of my favorite moments of the day is when I walk in and see them at the end of the day - the boys come running toward me and Lydia gives me one of her huge smiles.... and that makes me happy:)