School's Out!

We made it through the school year! Bringing home a winter baby to a first grade/preschool/toddler scene made a few of our school year months feel so overwhelming to me. Spring has definitely made things easier, and the boys had a great end to their year. We love their school. 

I hated the news this week, so, so much. I want my kids and all kids to be able to feel and be safe in their classrooms and my heart broke so many times this week as we learned more and more details about the tragedy in Texas. I loved school so much growing up and my babies deserve a world where they can have those experiences too. 

On Monday I took Bennett, Camden, and Asher to meet Westin and all the first graders on their field trip to the park. Westin finished up school on Wednesday and we had fun going out that night to celebrate together. Our first day of summer was smooth, we have some nice checklists set up for the boys and they did a great job at driving it themselves. We met up with some friends at the park, and the next day we did a library trip and got ready for the boys to go camping.

Michael, Westin, and Bennett went camping up. the on Friday night and they were so excited about it. I almost, almost changed my mind last second and brought the little guys along too but decided to let the big kids have their own trip. Camden and I had a really fun time together -- he is so high emotions when Michael is around because he just loves his daddy so much and can't really handle when Michael isn't doing exactly what he wants him to do. Westin used to be just like that. It's a lot of love, but kind of overwhelming :) So he was really chill with me Friday/Saturday and it was fun to have that time together. Asher slept wonderfully that night, too, which was appreciated because the next night Bennett threw up five times and we.... are tired of that. Poor guy. He feels great now though, so who knows.

We're feeling ready to head into our first full week of summer!

Westin and his crew eating lunch on his field trip

The boys loved hanging with a bunch of first graders

Bennett is working hard on his counting. I'm so proud of how hard he works.

Sweet boy looking way too big in his jacket.

Last day of first grade,
the day after tragedy in Texas. I cried after dropping him off. Sweet, sweet boy.

Out for pizza after the first day of school!

And shakes. Bennett confidently chose lime and it cracked me up.

So many boys hanging out on our street on the first day of summer.

Asher was very, very into this jar of pears that Brooklyn so patiently fed to him.

Always sticking his tongue out like a little puppy.

Just us on a Friday night while the big kids went camping with daddy!

These two were so, so excited to go camping.

We did some handprints on some thank you cards for a fundraiser happening soon.

Westin's very into shooting hoops since watching March Madness.