Halloween type stuff

The first two pictures are of Esmeralda, aka Pocahontas, and her boo & bowl-a-thon. She was too quick while bowling to catch very many pictures.

On the max heading to bowling.

Using the ramps with the bumpers to rack up a total of 86 pins!!

The tractor for the hay ride at the pumpkin patch with her class.

Waiting is so hard when you're little.

A class photo.

Esmeralda and I on the hay ride after picking the perfect pumpkin :-)

That's a LOT of potatoes!!

Another class photo.

She really wanted to be the chicken...so cute!!

Summer adventures...a little late coming

I know that is has been a long time coming and we have had lots of adventures since my last post, but I'm going to try to update this all at once...in about 3 separate posts :-)

Just a cute kid smile from sometime in early August.

This was her favorite activity this summer...rain in the pool,

created by the sprinkler!

I thought this was a cute moment from Matt and Yvette's wedding. Esmeralda and Blake were picking flowers, I think.

We went to the fair and gave Esmeralda the camera. This is what a four year old finds exciting at the fair...a sheep :-)

A sheep with a coat and hat.

A pig getting a hair cut.

This cow requested her picture taken. Literally...she moo-ed until Esmeralda took her picture and then went back to eating hay.

Baby pigs.

Miniature horses, with babies!

They were eye level with Esmeralda.

She finally got up the nerve to ask the man if she could pet them.

The baby chicks were too cute, she LOVED them.

And they LOVED her too!!

the teaching bug

Esmeralda's preschool class did a lot of learning about bugs and insects this last school year. One of the things they learned was this really cute song about the parts of an insect. The other night we found this big bug on our sliding glass door and she pulled a stool over and started going through the song and pointing out the parts as she sang the song and counting the legs. So I picked up the camera and asked her to sing it again. Of course she was a little embarrassed so she didn't point out the parts, but she did sing it again for me. Thanks to teacher Casey for teaching her this song and the parts of an insect.

*2 antennae, compound eyes, 1-2-3-4-5-6 legs, 2 pairs of wings so I can fly, my thorax and my abdomen, this is what I look like

recent random adventures

the girls in the sprinkler...

filling crocs with water

how do i take a picture again?

right, got it mom

she finally got to hold bert

water gun fight at Colton's birthday party

and some birthday cake

look at this face, mom!

Happy Birthday, Caleb!!

yum, yum, yum

chocolate goatee

how far can i smear this?

you're a mess, son!

total destruction

Graduation Ceremony - 6/15/11

JJ, Esmeralda, Connor, Violet

Teacher Casey - "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
"Esmeralda - "A Mommy."

Esmeralda's self-portrait plate
*notice the small details like fingers, toes,
eyelashes and a belly-button.

Connor, Esmeralda, Ajay, K'lyn, Ella

Esmeralda and Mommy

Mommy needs a big hug!

It's raining ice cubes!!

This was the cutest thing. A few weeks ago we had some crazy weather at our house. Hot and sunny, like bathing suit and pool hot (to a 4 year old), then it clouded up, then rained and then it hailed. Or, acording to Esmeralda, "It's raining ice cubes, mom!!" (it's hard to see, but there are little white dots of hail in the yard, about the size of cocoa puffs)

Dancing Queen

This is Esmeralda doing a bunch of different dances...mostlynamed by the adults in the room. There's the armpit-jab, the b*tch-slap, the hoopa-a-loop (aka hula hoop) and the foot dance. Enjoy this crazy kid and her and fantastic dance moves!

A day at the beach

April 17th, 2011...we finally made it to the beach with Katie, Rose and Lanikai!! It was cold but the girls had so much fun and they are already asking when we can all go back again. Soon...very soon!

I don't think we intentionally took these like this, but notice
the guy in the background of these first three pictures...they
mimic each other through this series. Pretty funny!!

Esmeralda making her way down to where the girls are digging.
Having a snack and getting warm feet.
"Hey Esmeralda, watch what I can do. I can bury my feet!"

"Uhh...I can do it to."

"Let's all do it!"

Always up for a posed picture...Lanikai.

Not exactly sure what Esmeralda is doing here,
but she's having fun running around.