April 2009

April was a fun month. Among other things, we celebrated Easter, went to the ballet, and even had quite a bit of tornado weather!


Leo, Kipper and Wren enjoy a little spring weather on the lawn.


Wren gets ready for Easter by dyeing some eggs.


The FCC girls get ready for their annual Easter Egg Hunt at California Park.


And Wren found LOTS of eggs!


Ms. Cindy's class gets ready to go out for their egg hunt.


The Easter Buny remembered to visit and brought a hula hoop.


obligatory family photo before church.


Wren at St. Thomas Episcopal Church


Easter egg hunt at Sissy's house.












sweet cousins with their gifts from Sissy and Pappy.


Pancake Day at Preschool


Wren at ballet class


Ryan and Wren at the ballet


Sandy came with us!



Aunt Lulu and Ryan


Baba and Wren


wand and tiara


Princess Procession


Riding down the Greenway to the Earth Day Celebration



On the greenway


Making a bird feeder


We spent Mother's Day weekend with Caroline. Here are some photos of Wren and Nash.


Wren and Nash


We seemed to have a lot of tornado warnings this spring. Here is a photo of Jason, Wren and the bunnies in our tornado "safe" place. The helmets are Jason's idea! :-)

And that pretty much sums up April

Play Date

Wren had a play date today with her friend Luna. Luna is just 2 months younger than Wren. I remembered Luna and her mom from the FCC events but we ran into them again at the doctor's office when Wren got her head stitches. Wren and Luna were just playing away while we were all waiting to be called back. Wren forgot all about her head ouchy. Then when we were coming out of the office, Wren was screaming her head off. Little Luna was also leaving and she came over and patted Wren and told her not to cry and that it would be all right. What an empathetic little girl she was! Anyway, the girls played so well at the doctor's office that Luna's mom and I scheduled a play date at Kid's Kingdom in Madison. A good time was had by all!

Columbia, SC

We took another quick trip and drove over to Columbia, SC to visit my aunt, uncle, two cousins and their kids. My mom and niece Ryan went along too. It was great to see them all!

St. Patrick's Day

We went down to the Courthouse Square for the St. Patrick's day parade. We made sure to where our green so we wouldn't get pinched!

Our pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!


A leprechaun.


Here comes the parade!


Librarians!


The library Ready Reader van and my friend Stephenie with her kids.

Tucson, AZ

We were long overdue for a visit with Jason's sister Jessica and her husband John. We hadn't seen Jessica since Christmas 2006 and Wren had never even met John! Jason's brother Patrick flew out too since he was on spring break from Auburn. It was a quick trip, but we had a nice time. Wren loved her Aunt Jess and Uncle John and their little dog Dharma. Clover the kitty smartly stayed out of the way most of the time.

March Snow

Huntsville just saw a little tiny dusting of snow today. We had a little snow about the same time last year too. I think it was February 26th, 2008.

Great Big Book Bash

Betsy Lewin, illustrator of Caldecott honor book CLick, Clack, Moo was the guest for this year's Great Big Book Bash and Huntsville Pubilc Library. Wren and I took Ryan with us and we met cousin Megan there. The girls had a good time.


Meeting Toot and Puddle




Getting ready for the presentation.

Fisher Price LIttle People

Here is Wren playing with some old school Fisher Price Little People. These were some of my favorite toys when I was a kid. I could play with them for hours! The new ones are just dumb looking so I went on ebay and bought Wren a few of the old kind.


I thought Wren did a very good job of setting the scene. But it looks like the elephant killed the people before it was corraled.

The dumb new kind.

Play date

Today Wren had a play date with some very special friends. The kids in the pictures below are the children of two of my closest friends. We've known each other since kindergarten at Randolph Elementary School!


Wren and Ethan (Keri's son). Hes' four years old.


Noah (4) and Emie (3) are Michelle's kids.


Emie and Ethan. What a flirt Emie is - she's already riding in cars with boys!