We were all excited to start the month off with Del, Dawn and the Marty's trekking their way down to us in the Rydman bus! Our driveway was happy to see it after all this time. We filled our time with nothing but fun. Starting at the Discovery Science Center, and lots of cousin play time, we then took a quick trip to San Diego where we spent a BIG day at Sea World! Uncle Joe let us bunk up at his place then, after Riggs schooling Mommy on what Pilate's is all about during a early morning Birthday class, we had a relaxing day at Campland. Soon after we said goodbye to the Marty's who headed home on a plane we got home just in time to head to a Birthday party at Kidnastics for one of Cienna's pre-school friends, Sydney. The following week was "Spring Break" for the kids, so Mommy and Daddy worked a couple of half days and split time hanging with Nana, Poppa, and the girls. The girls loved having Nana and Poppa around, just because they love them, not because they have an
iPad or lots of snacks! The family did however also score an awesome Camping Grill thanks to Nana and Poppa! Throughout the weeks we had more time with friends, trip to the park with Geithmans, first time to the Balboa Peninsula with the Harpers, and a great Easter Sunday at the Snows. We did have a magnificent egg hunt consisting of notes within each egg that had words or letters for the girls to read and an Easter Basket discovery in the morning. We also had some time to work in the garden, perfecting Mommy's "plant poles" as well as starting our first ALL GRAIN batch of beer (Sierra Nevada Pale Ale "ISH"). Daddy then made a quick turn around trip helping Poppa drive the bus back to Kenwood so that he could celebrate Trevor's Communion with him and even squeezed in a trip to Lagunita's Brewery. The girls picked up Daddy at LAX early Sunday morning and went to watch Mommy play Soccer, then while the rest of them napped Mommy went to Celebrate an upcoming (early May) new Chavez arrival. To complete the month we had a chill day at the Zoo at which the animals were at the top of their game, even the porcupine was full of energy.
Cienna is really preparing for her Kindergarten days, loving her desk. "Mommy, I'm going to go up stairs and practice reading quietly at my desk for a little while." We even walked together to her soon to be new school to turn in her registration. For the most part she simply loves to learn, anything to do with reading, writing, and arithmetic is right up her alley! She also loves helping in the garden, mostly finding the bugs and worms then making nice places for them to hide. Now that she is 42" she got to go on Atlantis (a big roller coaster at Sea World) and .......loved it....... minus the getting her clothes wet part! Art is still one of her favorite things to do!
Our little fireball, is just that. She is quite fast, her sister can't even catch her. Her coordination keeps advancing with everything that we literally throw at her. Her facial expressions and things she says blows us away/makes us crack up all day long. We like that one of her favorite words has become "yes" with an accent... much better than alternatives. She is still motherly and enjoys her baby dolls. She likes to point out letters as she sees them around and is now skilled with naming colors. She has taken a liking to reading the same story over and over again, but we think that's a good thing in the long run even if it's not the best for Mommy and Daddy. The excitement of pre-school is getting to her and it'll be hard to keep telling her... not till September, but We can't wait either it's going to be fun!
The girls are such great friends, We hope it's always this way (it can happen). Of course they have their moments, and as long as they are just moments it's cool. Lot's of roll play, dancing, entertaining. They got to begin swim lessons again, this time in the same class! It's pretty cool to watch them together in whatever they do and it's nice that they look forward to the days that they get to spend together. Since Cienna has been practicing to whistle and getting pretty good, Kaylee decided that using your voice isn't whistling and is actually starting to whistle herself as well.
Times are good!
