Artist Themed Month

As I was gathering all of these recent pictures together I realized that almost all of them were artistic in nature.  School is winding down for the year and the kids both had their class musical recently. The first few pictures are from Jonathan's class or Jonathan's field trip to the zoo. Jonathan's friend Cade is pictured below, and I imagine he's trying to stop the alligator from eating him.  Both of them said that they wanted to be football players when they grow up.  Starting the artist theme, I included a picture of the fruit and vegetables Julia made with play-doh since they look amazing and she paid very close attention to all the details.



Jonathan had gone almost seven years without a real bed and simple furniture. He had been sleeping on his infant bed since forever. Recently I got out the paintbrush and roller and painted his room, ordered some furniture on Walmart (and put it together) and picked up a mattress and box springs. He picked out The Avengers bedding and curtains.

Then came his class musical. He played a cow and he knew all of the moves and songs. It was very cute and funny. If you look for the girl in the green, that is Addison. She and Jonathan are buddies and they had a couple of play dates together already this year.



Julia also had her class musical. She was very nervous leading up to it and asked several times to get out of it. In a classy move, Mom and Dad unexpectedly got her some flowers for after the show. We won't do that often (i.e. give rewards for doing what you should do any way), but it seemed appropriate this time.  She was looking to see if we had picked her up flowers when she walked by, but we had them hidden from her. It was fun to see her perform and hear her deliver her one line to the entire crowd.