School days

Andrew started Pre-K at a Christian school a couple of weeks ago, and loves it!  Here are some pictures from his first day.

Uniform laid out and ready to go :)

Cereal and toast – yum :)  Cereal bowl with a built in straw – one of our favorite things!

Sheesh mom – enough with the pictures, can a boy just eat his breakfast in peace?

Off we go :)

The bus drops him off on the Tues/Thursdays from the school he goes to for speech therapy.  He LOVES the bus :)  He wanted to ride it last year, but I was not ready for that yet, LOL.  So this year I decided to let him do it – and did I mention he loves it??

 

And what do you suppose happens after he gets home from a long day at school? Tuesday/Thursday he is gone from 7:30 to 2.  Maybe there is still a tiny bit of baby left in him :) I’d like to think so anyway!

Waiting….

We’ve been putting our waiting for a little brother or sister time to good use and doing some sorting and organizing… Andrew was quite fascinated with all his old toys and kept saying, “Hey, I remember this!” Here’s hoping he’ll share with his brother or sister, LOL.

Andrew is headed over to grandma and pop pop’s house tonight for a sleepover while Chuck and I celebrate our anniversary by going out for dinner and a movie. Here he is sitting by our front window waiting for Grandma to come pick him up.

Walk to “Monkey Island”

We’ve been walking/bikeriding to “Monkey Island” several evenings each week.  It is the remnants of a tourist attraction that existed back in the 1950’s.  I took a few pictures of our walk/ride there tonight.

We’re on our way :)

Stopping to admire a snail shell (aka a treasured find).

Getting close!  It is on the other side of the red bridge (the bridge is actually a footbridge that leads to the island)

A closeup of the red flowers on the Royal Poinciana tree…. I had no idea how pretty they were until I saw these :)

Monkey Island View

Taking a break and refueling with some yummy Dibs

Perhaps we should rename it Iguana Island?

School Daze

School is out for the summer – how did the year go by so quickly!

This was taken the first day of school…

 

And this was on the last day…. same Andrew, just a little lot taller and more grown up!

Butterflies :)

Here is another group of butterflies we watched transform from caterpillars to butterflies. It all happens over a two week period of time and is fun to watch.

Tiny caterpillars….

Getting bigger :)

 

Transforming!

All done!

Releasing them

 

Free at last :)

Awana

While we were visiting Alex and Rachel, we went to Awana at Jenn’s church.  It was the last night before summer break and the church had all kinds of fun, games, and water activities for the kids.

Slipping and sliding :)

First time playing kickball, with a little encouragement from Aunt Jenn

Running the bases with Aunt Jenn… go Andrew go!

 

Having fun playing a game of dodge the wet sponge, LOL .  That’s him in the dark shirt with sponge in hand :)

Beautiful Rachel and Butterflies

 

Andrew got a butterfly kit for his birthday and they came out of their chrysalides right before we went to visit Alex and Rachel, so the butterflies came along for the trip!

*** no butterflies were harmed in the taking of these pictures, they were set free the next day :)

 

Who says you can’t eat ice cream and ride a horse at the same time?

Tree climber extraordinaire!

Just hangin around :)

I really wish the lighting was better on these pictures!