Just Life!

We are in the middle of May, which if you have school aged children you know is a busy, busy time!  Activities are wrapping up, school is a struggle, it's staying light longer, and summer break is within sight!  Life is no different for our family!  Thus, each day is just a "grind through and mark another day off the calendar getting us closer to summer!"  As a result, the level of doing fun and exciting things has gone down!  But even that being said, there have been a few pictures just too cute not to share from the past two weeks, including the above picture from this past Monday!

 

Our sweet, strong-willed Olivia likes to exert her opinion to do or not do things on an hourly (if not more frequent!) basis!  Most days she does not like getting clothes on, and she really dislikes having her hair combed!  That crazy curly hair sure can become tangled!!  So on a Sunday morning not too long ago when I was able to get her dressed and her hair done, when she wanted to wear her crocs to church, I had to just say yes as there was no fight left in this mom!  Of course everyone thought it was just adorable!

 

Getting pants back on after using the bathroom can be a real struggle!  The good news is that potty training has been a complete success!  She is even dry every nap and at night!

 

Today she really wanted eggs for breakfast, and of course she had to help make them too!  She didn't do too bad! 

 

Yesterday we ventured to the park with some friends!  As you can see from this picture, getting outside and burning a little energy before starting school was going to be vital to getting things accomplished!

 

Our little scientist!  She enjoys looking at things she finds in the backyard under her microscope!  And the best news is...only 16 more school days left in the year!  Yippee for summer and a much lighter, more fun schedule!