Mother's Day Recipe

We made a Mother's Day present for Mommy in school.  It is a cook book.  There is a page for everyone in my class with our pictures.  I wish mine was in the first page but it was in the back.

It says
"I love my Mommy because she does stuff for me and loves me lots."

Chicken
"First get a chicken at the store.  Put barbecue on it.  I think you cook it on the grill for 10 minutes.  Then the last thing is eat it!

Crowns and Butterflies

We had May Crowning Day at school.  We went to church and they put a flowers on Mary. Mary is Jesus' mom. I was expecting a crown like a Queen wears, not a crown of flowers.  Mommy and Daddy asked about how it was.  I said "Long".  But I did get to wear a dress and sandals.  I always like to wear a dress.

Guess what kind of pet we have in our classroom?  Butterflies!  They started out as caterpillars.  There were four of them.   Three of them have come out as butterflies.  The first one came out while we went to church.  Then there was two more the next day.  Mrs. Crone said the other one may not make it to a butterfly.  They will have to dry out their wings before they fly.  When they can fly we are going to take them out of the net and let the butterflies fly away.

I only have 2 more weeks of school.  Then it will be summer.  Then I will be in kindergarten.

River Belles

We went to the river to watch the boats race.  They race really slowly.  I guess because they are slow because they have all these people on them. Mommy and me waved at them and some of them waved back.

I liked playing around by the river.  I saw my friend Kyle there.  She lives by the river.  I saw her house. I threw rocks in the river and we pulled weeds to make a nest for a caterpillar.

When we were eating dinner the boats finally finished the race. I think that I could have ran faster.  But it was still a fun night.

Summer Haircut

I got a nice short haircut for summer. I showed Angela a picture from last year of how I wanted it. She cut it and she even let me sweep up the hair on the floor. I know Mommy will miss telling me that I have to brush my hair out.  But it will keep me cool for summer.

Zoo Trip

It was finally a nice day outside so we went to the zoo.  It was so crowded, we were in the car line to park forever.  I kept asking, "Are we close to the zoo?"  There were people even parking on the grass.  We packed a lunch and ate it on a bench.  Mommy packed some snacks and me and Luci kept sneaking the cookies.  We got in trouble for it but it was a mostly a fun day.

  

It was Julian's first trip to the zoo too.  But he just stayed in his stroller and slept.  He couldn't go with us to look at animals.  Maybe next time when he is older.  I want to tell him all about the animals.  

This monkey was hanging on the window.  His hair was all knotty.  I got a little scared.  

We watched the polar bear swim around.  The polar bear kept playing with a log.  And then he was trying to get something out of the hole is rock wall.  I don't know what was in there but he looked funny putting his nose and his paw in there digging around.

We watched the gorillas too.  One of them came down the ladder right by us and all of the kids standing in front of the window screamed.  Then he stopped in front of us and just looked at us.  That was scary too.  I know he is behind the glass but it still is scary.

Then we saw this gorilla eating a cardboard box.  I don't think that tasted good but he was chewing it up.  I bet he wished he had some of our cookies.  

Easter Pictures

 

Happy Easter!  We did a bunch of stuff for Easter this weekend.  We went to an egg hunt at a school.  They had the Easter Bunny there.  I know he is not the real Easter Bunny.  He is like the Santas that take pictures for Christmas.  They just help out the real one.  I don't think the real Easter Bunny is that big.  He was holding Julian.

When we did the egg hunt Daddy told me to run out far first and then start picking up eggs. It was a good trick because I was all by myself for a minute or second.  I got some eggs before the other kids ran out there.

When we got home Daddy helped us dye some eggs.  I did pink, blue, yellow, spring green and purple for mine.  Luci was mad about my eggs being in her colors and she didn't want to take a picture.

She got over it.

On Easter morning, we woke up and found the eggs that the real Easter Bunny hid.  There were real eggs and plastic eggs with candy.  He even put some in the laundry room. He knows how to hide them really good.  We had to hurry up and find the eggs before we went to church.

Then we went to Gram's house and ate.  We had more Easter baskets there with more candy and presents.  Then Gram said the Easter Bunny came and hid eggs while we were watching a movie.  I did't believe her. I think she hid them.  I know the Easter Bunny only comes at night.  But I was excited to get more candy!  And I helped Luci and Landon find some eggs too.

Hope everyone else had a Happy Easter too.

Hello Baby Brother

Julian was born in the middle of the night on St. Patrick's Night.  Me and Luci were born in September.  He was born in March.  I had to wake up in the middle of the night and my grandma was there so we went to the hospital.  I guessed it was a baby boy and my Dad told me I was right.  It was a baby boy.  I was happy to get what I wanted...a baby brother.

I love him.  I always want to hold him and kiss him.  He is very long.  He has red marks on his eyes from being born.  But is still so cute.  I love him with all my heart.  Now we have five people in our house!  We will live together as a family of five.

He wears little newborn clothes.  I can't wait until he is older and can play with us.  I will love him even when he is a Dad. 

I was on Spring Break when he was born. I was home with him for his first week. And I was excited to tell everyone at school about him. I took a book of pictures to school to show my teachers and the kids in school.

(All in Riley's words)