Since I am horrible with dates, here an official heads up for family.  Mark your calendars for June 11 as the graduation date for your eldest grandchild to graduate from preschool.  Yes, I know it seems a tad silly as she is only graduation to Kindergarden, but to her it is a big deal.  And that is the day of their ceremony.  Complete with a cap and gown.  If you are interested in attending please let me know and I can let you know details of the time, etc.  And go ahead and mark June 12 as the day we will celebrate her birthday with a party - aka the day she has been talking about since she turned 4, lol.  I tell you parties mean a lot to this little girl. 

(Here's one more picture of the soon to be graduate.  :-) )

Last weekend we took the kids to a local egg hunt.  It was a little cool, but otherwise a beautiful day for it. 

The anticipation of the hunt was part of the fun.

This year the two were in separate age categories.  So she had to wait patiently while he hunted and then he had to wait for her.  It actually went very well (and helped that he got to go first).  And she was very excited to see what he got.

Can you tell?

It is so nice when they can share in the other's happiness.  Unfortunately it works in reverse too.  But for this hunt it was all good sharing.

Here she is patiently waiting to go hunting with Daddy.

He took the time while she waited to show me his "goodies."  And since he had only one plastic egg and the rest was egg shaped candy wrapped in plastic he also got to work on his colors.  They still need work, but he was consistent with orange.  His uncle would be proud.

Returning from her hunt.  You have to love her style.  :-)

It has been busy around here and even though I got through all the vacation photos (well for the blog anyway) I haven't done any other updates.  So here are some quick notes on things that have been going on around here. 

My dear hubby caught up with me in age.  ;-)  Oh, and his daughter "planned his party."  She is all about parties. 

Our little man is still into trains.  Did I mention on vacation everytime we rode a train he would let us know if it was Thomas, Percy, Diesel, Salty, etc?  I got a strange look over it once, but he thought it was wonderful.

I shopped at one of the large twice a year consignment sales around here.  This year for the preview sale she had to go with me.  Here she is with one of her "finds."

So she is now completely happy to play a bride.  Her prince prefers cartoon characters.

She has had dancenastics class twice a week for two weeks due to make-up classes.  Oh, and she has been to two birthday parties for friends.  This girl keeps our calendar busy.

They celebrated St. Patrick's day at school.  (Though she did it a day early due to class pictures.  Not that she cared, but it throw off her daddy who didn't know about the schedule change.)

The weather has been nice and the kids have gotten out to enjoy it.

(Did I mention kids of all ages?  :-) )

Day 8 was hard for us in that it was our last.  It was not helped by the fact that it was rainy until about lunch time.  Which incedentally meant that until then the camera stayed in my bag under my poncho.  Sigh.  Like I didn't take enough pictures during the whole trip right?  Yeah, it has only taken how long to go through what I did take?

While we were waiting on the fastpass time for her to ride a roller coaster, we found a little kid play area.

Then it was off for her and daddy, while he and I looked around in a shop nearby.  Then he let me get a few pictures before they returned.  He was a total ham despite refusing to look at the camera.

I wanted to get one of her on a "big girl" roller coaster, but I couldn't get close enough for one.  But she loved it judging from the fact that she requested riding it again today (it was her second time).  Shortly after we visited a couple of shops as we headed out of the park.  Then it was back to the resort to get our luggage out of storage (love that they do this!) and then off to the train station.  We ate Subway at the station and then it was on the train and on our way back home.  Sigh.  Hard to end a well needed family vacation, but there will be more in the future!

Here they are on the train finishing their dinner.

And it was back to Epcot we went after breakfast with characters.  Yes, we dined every morning except our last with characters.  Between the characters and the unlimited supply of food the kids loved it.  We heard more than once what great eaters we have.  To me that is the point of breakfast isn't it - to eat?  I think they were impressed that they were eating things like fruit like it was going out of style.  But really our kids could live on fruit alone.  And Disney had great fruit.  Really.  I want some of their strawberries now.  Sigh. 

So our last character breakfast was with Mickeys friends.

And both of them really got into coloring while we were there.

I should say that she's really into coloring right now.  So of course anything she does...

Because that is how these two are with everything.

The weather was absolutely beautiful in Epcot.

Can you tell he was excited to get his picture with Mickey?

And where she comes up with some of these poses I don't know.  But they are all her.

And speaking of our little independent girl, she decided to help push the stroller.  Granted no one was actually in it at the time, but she did help.  And was going on about how hard it was and that she wanted to give us a break.  Very sweet.

He just enjoyed being independent.

With their Chinese masks that they each made.

And visiting with Mulan.

It was a great relaxing day for everyone.  And we even shared our snack with a duck.

In the evening we went to a luau.

Complete with a variety of traditional dances including a fire dancer.  Too cool!