The Weekend

Henry really likes this headband.

Rhett got a few great pics of him running around with it.

Henry trying on Z's old glasses.

Z asked Rhett to pull out our bikes Sunday. They were quite dusty after residing in the shed for several years. We took off, each on our own bike, while Henry was resting. Even Benny ran along enjoying himself quite a bit I must say.

Scientist Zoe

Zoe had her school science fair today. Her partner was Charlie and they discussed the life cycle of a ladybug. Zoe did a great job. She even celebrated that she wasn't nervous! We enjoyed lemonade and cookies on the playground afterwards. Zoe got this super badge as a merit of her achievement. She must be proud because she let me take this picture.

Little Charlie was quite a serious fellow. He was no nonsense about explaining the different stages of the ladybugs' growth.

Need a reason to celebrate? Have a doggy birthday.

Birthday Boy

We even got Benny his own doggy cupcake.

Baking a strawberry cake.

We were hoping for a bundt cake but....

we ended up with something much better.

Notice Henry shopping in the background.

We love birthdays!!!

Special Outing

I was very excited to take Zoe to the Capezio store this week to get her first real pair of ballet slippers. She's been taking the KinderDance class at her school since the fall but we started with some faux ballet slippers from Target first. Now that I know she is committed to the class and we've outgrown our first pair we had just cause to make the investment.

I must say that I remember the excitement of getting each pair of my dance shoes growing up. It really does not seem that long ago that I was in Dotty Hunt's studio lacing the red-button closures of my own tap shoes.

Driveway Slide

Henry had a little tumble in the driveway. Doesn't he look like a little bruiser!

Spring Break

Noell made a delicious veggie pot pie!

Jess's homemade cinnamon raisin bread (which sustained us for our 8 hour flight around the world).

FINALLY arriving after a 33 hour adventure to make it back to Austin.

Ang and I had a wonderful visit with Jess and Noell in Richmond. Great food, conversation, weather, scenery, cuddly cats, and wine made this the perfect retreat!

I'm basically blogging for the sake of it tonight. It has been a long time since my last post. I had a great birthday week. I received a beautiful bouquet of flowers from my students. I ate a delicious cupcake from my favorite bakery courtesy of Rhett. I got to go to a 3D, IMAX movie with my girlfriends. We had a fun trip to see my parents last weekend and we have a babysitter lined up for tomorrow so there will be many more birthday tidbits to come.