My girls

Since I did a post on Andrew, of course I have to do a quick update on the girls. I don't have as many pictures of them in the last few months (because they don't do as many silly things), but here are a few.

I went on a 2nd grade field trip in April to the Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge. It was a rainy day but the kids had a great time. The top picture is Hannah with her owl "pellet" (what they cough up and it has little bones and things in it) that she got to dissect. She absolutely loved it, especially when she found a mouse skull in hers. Ooohhhh, gross! The picture below is of her fishing for phytoplankton. She learned a lot, and so did I!

Hannah's also been playing Spring soccer and just has one game left. I think they've only lost one. Anyway, here's a picture of her in action.

Helping to plant the garden:

First top tooth lost:

Second top tooth lost (just last Sunday):

Both girls are in a Daddy/Daughter group with Ruel called Y-Guides (used to be called Indian princesses but that's not PC anymore!). They're each with their own age group and go on fun outings together. In April, Emily got to go with Ruel to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco and they had a great time. Hannah had to miss that one because she had a soccer game. I'm not quite sure what this background is, but I thought it was a cute picture of Ruel and Emily together.

Can you believe these zebras aren't real? They had me fooled from the picture!

This next picture is when we did our annual April Fools' Dinner. We always have stroganoff (a family favorite) with rice and then French bread, butter, jam, etc. We write the names of everything you need on pieces of paper (i.e. knife, fork, cup, water, sauce, rice, etc.). Everyone has a baggie of 12 slips of paper with these things written on them but you only get to pick 3 at a time, so you might be stuck with butter, water (with no cup, hence drinking out of the pitcher), and sauce. Then after a few minutes we move onto the next round. It's pretty funny watching people eat their food off their tray with no utensils. Oh, and some lucky people get dessert first! Emily had a lot of fun doing it. The kids look forward to it every year.

Emily gardening in this one. I'll have to take some pictures of our garden now because things are really growing tall and Emily is the one who waters it and keeps it going the most. She is a good little gardener.