Aquarium Fun

Virginia Beach has a great Aquarium. We especially loved the sim submarine and shark tank.

Bird Chase

Julianne was more excited about the birds than she was about the rest of the beach. She could definitely do without the sand, but eventually overcame her dislike of the stuff to go chase birds. She loves the water. She wasn't afraid at all, she'd just run headlong into it.
(Fun for mommy, really, lots!)

Mommy brought some scraps to feed the birds so she could get a closer look. I'm sure the rest of the beach loved us (they were probably like, oh great). It was fun though.

She chased the birds saying, "come on bird."

Virginia Beach Trip

While Luke was tracked out, we got to tag alone with Daddy on a business trip (to help a friend) out to Virginia Beach.

Yay Luke!

(I've been so behind on posts lately, naughty mommy.)
A couple of weeks ago, Luke came home with a Good Character award. He proudly told us that because he had been making such good choices and getting compliments, he got to go the Guidance Counselor's office to receive an award. Yay Luke! So we took him out to Mickey D's to celebrate.
We also had our very first parent-teacher conference regarding Luke's progress right before he tracked out last Friday. We goofed up and showed up a week early for ours. (oops. :) overeager. well, we missed the letter, and misunderstood an email. We told her we just HAD to know how he was doing - I mean, his pre-med career is on the line!)
She was so great. (We really LOVE his teacher!) She grabbed his folder and gave us an informal presentation of how he's doing. He has made so much progress in just a month and a half. He's learned so many new things, improved greatly on his alphabet, numbers, handwriting, and begun learning the calendar, etc. He's been so proud when he's had the responsibility for leading or ending the line, doing the calendar for the day, etc. We've loved experiencing all of these new firsts.

We're so proud of you Luke!

dancing queen

Jules loves music, and this week she discovered what those earphones are for. Anytime she hears music she busts into a dance (with such abandon I might add). It makes me smile. I love dancing with my little dancing queen!

outside

Fostering the Dane has also been great for us, because it got us to get the yard more cleaned up in preparation. So Julianne has been playing out on the playset and loving it. She loves to spend as much time as possible swinging and sliding. She can't quite climb up by herself yet, because of the spacing of the ladder, but I added three new rungs this week to help her out. Luke was having a blast doing a photo shoot of the whole back yard.

the new "puppy"

The kids and our new Great Dane foster from MAGDRL.
You can see how huge he is. Rest assured we took proper precautions before letting him this close to her (or either one of them). Mrs. Judy was so great with the kids, prepping and teaching Luke, introducing them individually to Stetson, and helping gauge Stetson's handling of the transition.

The kids making Stetson feel at home. They've done so well with him and vice versa.