May 10, 2011

Megan had her preschool graduation program (which is pretty funny considering she still has another year before she starts Kindergarten). Most of the kids in her class are going to school in the Fall though. They wore caps and gowns and everything. Megan was completely enthralled with her tassel - she could hardly focus on the songs they were performing. She kept rubbing it against her face or around her fingers or in her ear (like she does with her hair). The mayor of Tiejeras was there and proclaimed that day, May 6, 2011, their day (the kids of Parky's Pals). After the short ceremony there was a potluck and even a jumper for the kids to play on. This has been a great preschool. I'm pretty sure I'm going to send Megan again next year. It's SUPER cheap ($36 a month for 4 days a week, 3 hours a day), they go on fun field trips, the directors are great. They don't learn as much as some of the others, but they have a ton of social interaction...and anything I feel she needs work on we can do at home. She loves it.

May 9, 2011

Hello Baby Boy Dick. Yes, I am pregnant. We are expecting baby #5 at the end of September. The due date is Sept 28th (right in between Nathan and Dad's birthdays - we're getting a little crowded right there). We had our ultrasound on Tuesday. None of the kids knew that we were having another baby. We took them all with us. The room we were in had an extra screen on the wall, so the kids all took a seat and looked at the images on the TV screen on the wall. We told them to tell us when they thought they knew what they were looking at. Megan said, "It's a volcano. Is it Mom?" Ben said, "Space." So then we specified that what they were looking at was inside of Mom's tummy. Caelan guessed a baby. When we confirmed it Megan got so excited, "It's a baby? You're having a baby?" It was cute. They were all excited. The machine the technician used even showed some 3-D images, which we have never seen before on an ultrasound, so that was fun. They were much easier for the kids to distinguish than the other images. They loved the tiny picture of the foot and of course the face views. We're really excited to have another little kiddo to add to the bunch.