Angie

Marin had her developmental exam last Thursday and passed with flying colors!  She needs a little help with her expressive language.  I'm so happy that's all we need to work on.  She's such a smart little girl!  Speech therapy starts next Monday.

Ellery starts swim lessons at DU tonight.  DU is much closer to us and I'm looking forward to not having to drive 30 miles just for a 30 minute lesson.  She really digs swimming.  I don't think she's as into gymnastics.  Bob put training wheels on her 1st big girl bike!  She calls it her new bike and it EXTREMELY excited to ride it every night after preschool.  Little does she know, the bike is at least 10 years old and was brought home by our neighbors 2 years ago after it had sat lonely in the park for over a week!  We've been storing in the shed.  I'm so glad she is oblivious to whether an item is really new as opposed to used.  That oblivion will end soon enough, but for now they will continue to wear "new" consignment and thrift store clothes and play with hand-me-down toys.

Melissa

I think this should be Melissa's Blog...Ha Ha!! Laura we need to be hearing from you!
Well alot has been going on...I had an interview Tuesday..went well. I should know in 1-2 weeks. Layton will play his last game of soccer 2morrow :(  Chelsea is getting better and better at driving the Mustang..She turned 8,000 miles on it last week! We've been driving into town about everyday after school, just to get a pop. It still makes me nervous at times when she kills the Mustang in the middle of an intersection!! 2 months and she'll be 16!! Can't believe it!
Laura and I will be participating in our 1st 5K race on the 15th!! We are getting excited! I am sure Laura is going to kick my butt!
After 7 years, I finally got my 1st Mother's Day present from Doug... a new fishing pole! So we tried it out tonight..I still kicked all their butts!! It was quite interesting trying to find out way back to the house through the dark woods..I think we learned a lesson about that.
Layton has 5 days left of school and Chels has 3 (she is exempt from finals b/c she's getting all A's)
I have to say I'm a proud mama!!
I never knew southern Illinois had skinks. What is a skink one might ask? A grey lizard type thing with a red face. Apparently their face becomes more red with more sunlight. Thanks to my facebook friends for educating me on Skinks.. I seen one in our backyard today.
Well good night my sisters... Love and Miss you!! A couple more months and we'll see each other!! Make that a little over 1 month. Can't wait!

Melissa

Had a telephone interview yesterday!! It went very well. Hopefully I should be hearing something within a few weeks.
The kids have 19 days left of school!!