Our first beach day of the year

We've had other days of beach weather already this year but Memorial Day was the first day we went to the beach.  The water is still pretty cold but not quite numbing.  It was a hot day, the kids had a great time playing in the sand.  I think I need to dump out and repack our beach bag because they don't play with a lot of the babyish stuff in there anymore and it looks like we need some new shovels this year.
Alex and Maya made friends with some kids that were close to us on the beach.  The poor little boy had a Joe Dirt haircut.  For real.  Just like Joe Dirt minus the side burns.

Alex's spring concert

These are both of Alex's songs from his spring concert. He was suppose to be "lettuce". That was a busy week and I wasn't up to making a whole lettuce costume, plus all the ideas we came up with he was afraid would look too much like ruffles (too girly) so we went with a simple green shirt - my green shirt actually!

Mother's Day, Concerts and recitals ...Oh my!

May was busy.  Alex started playing baseball.  Maya finished up dance and had a recital.  Alex's class had their annual Mother's Day breakfast.  Alex and Maya both had spring concerts at their schools (on the same night of course, we had to split up)
Maya's dance class did a tap routine to "Just Can't Wait to be Kind" and a ballet routine to "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" both from Lion King.  The teacher's mom made all the girls matching animal print skirts for their costumes.
For Mother's Day Alex's class made these awesome photo canvas projects.  We are going to try to make a duplicate one of Maya.  I think one of the shots above might look nice in sepia tones, we'll see.
I got a couple other really cute ones of Maya singing at her concert.  However one of the little girls behind her has her skirt up around her neck and is wearing bright blue panties and no shorts underneath.  Sooo......even though I have no idea who she is I won't post someone else's kid in their underpants on the internet and can't share that bit of Maya cuteness with you.
And a lesson to be learned here for all mom's of preschool girls....they are going to pull up their skirts.  They just are.  If not this time then next time.  So for goodness sakes, invest in some biker shorts.
The last picture of Maya's concert is right before the "show" started.  I was in the front row so I could just barely hear the 3 girls chatting but it was hilarious.  They were complimenting each other on their dresses!

Catching up unloading my camera memory card

I found these from the beginning of the month.  As the weather got nicer on a regular basis we took more and more activities outside...including practicing guitar!  We entered popsicle season.  The neighbors gave us a dog house for Charlie.  He loves being outside and with his black fur gets way too hot in the sun so we thought in the summer he might like a house to lounge in.  We're still trying to convince him it's for him to go in.  And keep the kids out of it.