Elton Is A Kindergarten Graduate!

Elton finished Kindergarten yesterday!  His school doesn't do a Kindergarten graduation, so I took a picture of him this morning.  It is hard to see, but he has a medal around his neck that he won at his track meet a couple of weeks ago.  He was very proud as this is the first medal he received.  He is excited for summer (hoping we get some weather to match soon) and moving on to first grade next year at the school his big brother goes too.  For completing Kindergarten I gave him "The Wimpy Kid Do-It Yourself Book" or journal as he calls it. 

Spring Carnival

The first Friday in May was Elton's school's spring carnival.  Fortunately the weather held out until the last hour when it started to cloud over, cool down, and start to rain.  Caleb and Elton had lots of fun and I helped out in the fry booth for a little while.

The Things Little Boys Are Made Of.....

The weather has been really cold and wet this spring if you can even call it spring.  A few weeks ago, Elton and Oliver were thrilled to discover a whole little world under the carpet at the bottom of their slide.  It was so wet under the carpet that there were centipedes, rolly polly bugs and earthworms!  They thought it was the coolest thing ever and so I encouraged them to just look and then put the carpet down to they could see them whenever they want rather than disrupt them.

Skateland

This is Caleb roller skating for his 3rd time at a friend's birthday party I took him too.  I thought he did really well and he is hoping to maybe get a pair of inline skates for his birthday in the fall.

A New Year Of 4-H

In February, the meetings for "The Mighty Mutts" began for the year at the leaders' house.  This year is Caleb's third year and he is going to be working with Teddy, his pound puppy he adopted last summer during their service project.  This  year Caleb has moved up from being a Cloverbud to a regular member.

Elton has now joined "The Mighty Mutts" as a Cloverbud and will be working with Mimi.  Every Thursday evening since the beginning of April, the club has been out working with the dogs and will continue to do so until the fair in September.  The "Fun Match" dog show is coming up in June and is only a few weeks away.