New Pics and Mother's day

I had an amazing Mother's Day. Rodney, Donna, my mom and dad, Clint, Melanie and I all went up to Mtn Park and had a picnic and played on the playground. It was nice for no one to have to clean up or cook. The day before my grandmother came to town so we were able to visit as well. Clint got me a digital picture frame which I am excited to start playing with. Things have been super busy. School is almost over...wahooooo! And wedding season is beginning for all of my friends so our weeks are filled with crazy work schedules and the weekends are filled with wedding events but I am almost to the end of craziness. Melanie had her last day of school. She made me a cute handprint poem/gift for Mother's Day. It was sweet to get a craft from her. We went up to the Little Gym (Killian Hill and Hwy 78) this past weekend. Melanie LOVED it. I had taken her to Gymboree before and did NOT love it. There were too many parenting lessons built in and it was too structured. At the Little Gym there was an instructor and he went around to different stations to teach you things but if your child decided to wonder off somewhere else that was okay and you would just practice whatever he taught you when you got around to it. Melanie played instruments, practiced forward rolls, log rolls, running, jumping, reaching for the sky, rolling a ball, throwing a ball, catching a ball, and kicking a ball. She also practiced the beginning of a cartwheel (just touching her hands to the ground and trying to jump/bounce) and hanging from a bar and they have a beginners balance beam but she hated it and was not about to put her feet on it. It was so fun. We signed up to go this summer once a week. It's neat b/c both parents can go or just one and they have a giant observation wall for other folks to watch and they have final "performance" at the end where grandparents etc. can come see them. Our session was just a trial session and Melanie was the youngest in the group b/c the kids had been in that class for 4 months already and they were moving up this summer. But, this summer I think Melanie will be one of the oldest. Here are many of the latest cute pics.