May

May was an awesome months of celebrations!  First, my birthday!  This year Jay and I celebrated the day before with a dinner out and the purchase of my very first smartphone.  On my actual birthday, we drove to Schaumburg to see Sue perform in "The Music Man" at Lincoln Prairie School. We topped off the day with cake and ice cream when we got back home.  The kids decorated my cake with some special decorations.  We celebrated Mother's Day with my mom and sister at the Urban Ecology Center in Milwaukee.  The kids loved seeing the animals, climbing the tall tower, running across the bridge, and the secret doorway to the "waterfall" slide.  Plus we were serenaded by a quartet of singing frogs.  The final big celebration of the month was Theo's last day of preschool at Sunshine Mountain!  He had a great last day with an ice cream party.  In the evening, Granny and Grandpa came down to see his end of the year program.  The kids sang many cute songs and received certificates of completion for the year.  I am sad that our time at Sunshine Mountain has already ended, but hopefully Declan will get to attend there when he is 3.  Theo is very excited about attending 4K at his new school next fall.  Declan will also attend Junior Preschool there, or as Theo has dubbed it: 2K.

We topped off our month of celebrating with a trip to Seattle to see the Feistner family.  See Jay's blog post for more about our wonderful trip.

Since returning from our trip, we had a fun Memorial Day weekend including a celebrating a friend's upcoming wedding with a painting party at Picasso Vino and a BBQ at our house on Memorial Day.

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