Joy School Graduation

Emmy graduated from Joy School Tuesday. It has been a really fun year and it has been really good for her to make new friends and become more social. They started with a little program. Here she is singing one of the songs.

Her with her diploma.

This is her getting her yearbook and signing other people's. She was voted most likely to be a writer. All of the mom's helped teach during the year but the mom who organized everything, finished up the year and put together the graduation program and the yearbooks. She did a great job.

 Dad and Evie enjoying the celebration.

 Congratulations Emmy! We love you and are so proud of you.

Movin on Up

Friday TJ passed off his first level of swim school. He is no longer an otter, but has moved on up to a seal. He is doing an awesome job of just sticking his head in the water and swimming. He has worked really hard at it and I am really proud of him. When they pass a level, they get to ring the bell and then pick a treasure out of the treasure box. The second picture is of him and his teacher, John.

Sea World Part II

We had a couple of hours to kill Wednesday morning before we came home so we asked the kids what they wanted to do. They chose Sea World. We had bought Fun Cards that are good for the rest of the year. So we went back and spent about 3 hours there. We got to see the sharks and sea turtles, which we had missed the first day and then let them each do their favorite things again.

And this is just a random picture of Evie that we took at a park we went to while we there.

It was a good trip. It was nice to get away to some cooler weather. The day after we got home, TJ said, "Mom can we live at the hotel sometime again?"

The Beach

After a fun day at Sea World, we spent Tuesday at the beach. These pictures are actually a combination of Sunday night and Tuesday.

Emmy loved collecting seashells.

Evie was a trooper the whole trip. She slept all night all 3 nights and she was so good. We brought this little play tent to keep her out of the sun on the beach and it worked perfectly.

This is TJ flying his new Star Wars kite that he got for his birthday. It flew perfectly and he loved it.

Emmy buried some "treasure" and they are all looking for it. I'm not sure if they ever found it.

This is one of my favorite pictures of the whole trip. Addy is such a poser.

Sea World

Monday we headed to Sea World. It was the perfect time of year. The crowds were minimal. We did not wait longer than 5 minutes to do anything we wanted to do. They loved the Sesame Street Bay of Play.

Here they are waiting for the Shamu show to start and enjoying a little snack.

One of the reasons we decided to go to Sea World is because Emmy is so interested in dolphins right now. I'm not sure what started it, but she absolutely LOVES them. So her favorite part was getting to pet the dolphins.

Addy's favorite part was the "panda bear" that just happens to be all white. We checked out the book, "Polar Bear, Polar Bear What do you See?" and so she thought it was pretty cool to see the polar bear.

When I asked T.J. what his favorite part was, he said "all of it."

It was an awesome day and they were ready for bed by the time we had dinner and got back to the hotel.