Gymnastics

The girls' last day of gymnastics was this week. Unfortunately, I forgot the camera for Avery's last day, but here are a couple of pix at Audrey's last day (Audrey is demonstrating some of her moves and Avery and Iain are dancing ... they aren't both happening at the same time). =)

Kai's 1st Birthday

Kai turned one today! I can't believe it. Has a year really passed? He is such an incredible joy. So happy, almost always smiling, and all boy. His new favorite thing is to put his head down and crawl toward Audrey or Avery as fast as he can and head-butt them. Really. The girls run away laughing, and then he laughs and does it again, chasing them all over the house. He also has started standing on his own and is cruising around the furniture. Iain's parents are in town for a few days and we had a great birthday dinner and cake for Kai tonight. Chicken tacos and green beans (I think Kai ate half of the green beans himself). There are no pix of the green bean eating but a few of the cake eating that followed. It didn't take him long to figure out what to do. =)

Audrey's Dance Recital

For the last 2 months, both Audrey & Avery have been taking gymnastics, ballet and swim lessons. We will never again do 3 classes each for 2 kids. =) But they have both done a super job with each, and below are some pix from Audrey's recital yesterday.

Memorial Day weekend

Last weekend we went to the OCF retreat center in White Sulphur Springs, PA for a family weekend. It was awesomely fun to just hang out together as a family for 2 entire days. Iain & Audrey went canoeing (Avery was in the canoe on the shore but as soon as it started to get a little tippy, she decided to get out), we went to playgrounds, petted some horses, went fishing, and didn't use cell phones or the internet (that last part is probably the real difference-maker and I think we should try to do it at home more often)! Here are a couple of pix from an ice-cream stop we made on the way home, and also a pic of Kai at Arlington National Cemetery (we went on Monday evening), as well as the kids having fun at the house earlier in the day on Monday.