Been lazy lately...

Haven't had much time to post, so I thought I'd post a quick update.

Natalie is out of school, and decided she didn't want to go to day camp this summer, so we've just been enjoying her time off! She tested for early admission into public kindergarten last week, and we should find out within the next week if she was accepted. Her current school wanted her in K this year, but we thought it would be good to have her closer to home (gas prices going up and all that. Her school is 16 miles away, which equals 64 miles of driving daily), and also to go to school where she'll be going through 5th grade. She's getting so tall too! We went to the zoo last week, and she really enjoyed the Giraffe Encounter - she got to feed a giraffe "salad" (AKA a lettuce leaf), and got licked too! She's been really into building things lately, and makes wonderful, enormous castles complete with pretty intricate roadways!

Oliver continues to be a little charmer - that child works the room wherever he goes. His smile and laugh are infectious, and his expressions are so cute! He has added "hi" and "bye" to his vocabulary, complete with waving, and he uses them in context. He has all four first year molars, and just got one on the lower right too - that makes a total of 13 teeth! When I rock him at night, he's been jabbing his fingers in my eye (OUCH! We're working on "gentle" for the eyes now), so I took the opportunity to see if I could teach him the word and where his eyes are. He will point (poke himself) to his eye and say "eye", and he will also point (poke me) to my eye and say "eye". I'm going to work on nose next! He's also started the funniest thing... When he wants something to eat, he opens his mouth really wide, and pants really hard once - like "aaaaaaaaaaahh" - it's the funniest thing!

I'm going to try to get May pictures up this week!