Cannon Box!

Can't believe May is almost over, the heat is a rising here in Houston and summer is in full swing...almost, considering Jacob still has a full week of school left.  We have been hanging at the pool about every day with swim team practice.  Annie is finishing up her lessons this week and is doing amazingly well...I see a bright future of being able to sit at the side of the pool rather than be on duty in the pool in the near future:)  She is just so stinking cute, she was sticking her lip out the other day in the picture above.  She likes her hair in pigtails or braids, sometimes a single ponytail.  She likes to eat cucumbers and watermelon.  She likes to say "Cannon Box" when jumping into the pool:)

 Love those eyelashes:

 Such a sweet little girl:

Pool time at our house the other day...although we are limiting what we can since Gwyn is sidelined, we were able to let Gwyn hang on the steps and I swam around with her with her arm sticking up

 Love her!

 Jacob posing for me:

 I have been playing around with Instagram, which allows you to change your photos, it is pretty cool:

They let Gwyn come to her last gymnastics class to get her trophy and they had a little show for the parents...here the instructor was saying "Introducing Gwyn," Gwyn thought it was just great!

 Love the expression on her face:

 You'd have to zoom in to see how proud she was to stand up there with her trophy:)

Here are a couple of videos of the gymnastics performance:



Jacob up at swim team practice...he's blowing everyone out of the water since he is swimming 6 and Under since his birthday isn't until July...I told him after he said he beat everyone that there was one 4 year old you were racing against, ha!

A video of one of the time trials...Jacob does the length in about 37 seconds:

Girls drawing together while they wait on Jacob's practice to end...sweet sisters:

This is pretty much as long as Jacob's hair has ever been.  He was attempting to grow it out like this kid in his class who has very fine thin hair, it looked like the youngest boy from Eight is Enough, I told Jacob he didn't have hair quit like that kid, and one day I was finally able to comb it over to the side:

 He told me he wanted a summer cut, so off we went:)

 Love these sweet girls!

 And Instagram again!

Getting super sad about this sweet little girl going to Kindergarten in the Fall:(  I will miss her, but thankfully she is super excited about going.

I had taken the girls up to Jacob's school, we got Jacob out of class and we all went to the book fair...couldn't resist sharing this video of the girls skipping out afterwards:

Gwyn said, "I have eyes like Daddy's, but I like ketchup like you Mommy."

 I thought this was a pretty cool house that Jacob drew at school:

A new favorite of the kids this week....finding YouTube dance videos and dancing to them:
Funny things the kids said this week:
Gwyn:  If you eat too much meat you will turn into a meat.
Me to Annie:  Can you think of something fun for you and me to do next year since Gwyn will be in Kindergarten and it will just be me and you.
Annie:  Make dinner.
Me to Gwyn:  You are really special.
Gwyn:  Everyone in the whole world is special.
Gwyn:  Why did the chicken cross the road?
Me:  I don't know?
Gwyn:  To get to the other side so he wouldn't be squirted with water.  (Ok, we'll have to work on those jokes)
Jacob:  I really want two sisters and a brother.
Gwyn:  Mommy only prayed for a boy and two girls, so that is what she got.
Me to Jacob:  Why did you do Jump Rope for Heart?
Jacob:  To get a jump rope.
Me:  No, what was the reason the school did it...hint, it is Jump Rope for HEART.
Jacob:  Oh, you mean to get your picture on the wall in the gym?? (Clearly we have some work to do!)

Gwyn's Last Day of Pre-K and Tball

Sweet little Gwyn had her last  tball game, of course she didn't get to play because of her cast, but we did go to the game followed by the team party where Gwyn received her first trophy!  She was pretty proud of it.  She thought it was great the player on her trophy had a pony tail so she knew it was just for her!

Gwyn also had her last day of Pre-K, here she is with her sweet little class and teachers...it is off to Kindergarten in the Fall, boo hoo!

She is just so stinking cute!

I did her end of year party, she was in the Turtle class, so they all painted ceramic turtle piggy banks.  Poor little Annie woke up that day with a fever, so she didn't get to go to her class party or participate in the end of year program:(

Here is a video of one of Gwyn's songs during the end of year program...I love how she knows all the words and sings them loud!

With both girls being out of school, we've been having some fun days just the three of us.  We started off by letting Gwyn pick out her very own backpack for next year...we already sent this to G for her to put her name on it...and she just thought she was retiring, we are putting her to work!

I forgot how much fun Pottery Barn Kids is for the girls to play, just different toys than we have at home.  At one point Annie picked up the play telephone, said, "Hello Emmy? Okay, play at my house or yours?  Ok. Bye!"  So Cute!

Sweet girls were so proud of their little face paintings:

I needed to make a trip to the Target, so we went to the one attached to the mall and the girls rode the carousel and had Chick Fil A.

Love that sweet face! Poor Annie was so excited about her swim lessons, that are all by herself, but they were canceled last week since someone had an accident in the pool.  She gets double this week and is already talking about it to make sure Gwyn doesn't get to go, just her...poor third child!

We went over to Jason's and had lunch and watched a movie in the middle of the day...that theater gets plenty of use!

Pretty little Annie has only had one haircut in her life, and we thought it was time to even things up a bit...she was pretty excited:)

Everything is good when it ends with them giving you a sucker!

Jacob finished Tiger Cubs...not sure if we will do this again next year.  Jacob loved the camping part, but it was a bit much, especially forward thinking to next year with Gwyn trying soccer, basketball and softball as well, wow, I'm getting exhausted just thinking about it!  Although I ran into my neighbor and she said that I will miss the busyness once it is gone!

 Here is a video of Jacob crossing the bridge from a Tiger Cub to a Wolf...the song they are going over to is Eye of the Tiger:

I was doing some filing and came across one of my Christmas presents...a zombie family for the back of my car.  I decided to put them on Brian's car...I think he may redirect the kids purchases in the future, ha!

I love this book Gwyn made in her class...so cute!

Funny things the kids said this week:
Gwyn:  What if my finger really was broke?
Me:  It is broke, that is why we had to put it in a cast.
Gwyn:  No, I mean what if it was broke off.
Me:  Well, we'd have to get it and bring it to the Dr to sew it back on.
Jacob:  Yes, like we did to your other finger when mommy shut it in the door (Thanks Jacob for bringing that up again!)
Gwyn:  What is your next name? (She calls middle names your next name)
Annie:  When I jump in the pool I'm going to yell "Cannon Box"