Last Day of School

Ryan's 1st day of school on the left and Ryan's last day of school on the right!  He did grow a little since September!

Here is video of the 6 songs Ryan and his classmates sang at the program held on the last day of school.  I apologize because the video is really bad.   You might have to turn the volume up!

"The Bubble Song" and "God Made Me" from Ryan Focus on Vimeo.

"Jesus Loves Me" from Ryan Focus on Vimeo.

"Skinnamarink" from Ryan Focus on Vimeo.

Friends Are Like Flowers from Ryan Focus on Vimeo.

"I'm A Star" from Ryan Focus on Vimeo.

Here is a picture of Ryan getting his certificate from his teachers.  Ms. Colleen is on the left and Ms. Diana is on the right.

Bike-a-thon

Here are some pics from the annual bike-a-thon at Ryan's school!

Ready to go!

Riding, riding, riding

Popsicles for all at the end!

May

We did lots of fun things in May.

We went to the butterfly festival.

This is the 4th year we have gone and Ryan still enjoys catching and observing the butterflies!

The weather started to warm up so we get out the swimming pool!

Ryan looks something like this most days . . . 

We've also been hanging out with this little guy!

April

We did some fun things in April -- check them out!

Ryan, 2 of his friends and the Dads' took the kids to the Frontier of Flight Museum in Dallas.  The kids (and Dads) had a blast seeing all the different aircraft.

We tie-dyed our own t-shirts!  I should have taken a picture of the finished products.

We went to the Heard Museum to see if the turtles were there.  We only saw one turtle -- and a bunch of algae! 

The Heard also had a place were you could use building blocks to create dinosaurs/other animals.  Ryan really liked doing this.  This was his favorite creation of the day.

Ryan builds with Lego's -- a lot!  This is a creation he made (a zip line for his mini figures) this month.  He was very proud of it and took this picture so he could remember it when he decided he wanted to take it a part and use his pieces to make something else.

Angel likes the Legos too!

Easter

Besides going on a bazillion egg hunts Ryan also colored a BUNCH of eggs!

Here was his Easter basket from the Easter bunny!

Ryan did a good job hunting his eggs and was really surprised/excited to see that each egg had a $1 bill inside!

Egg Hunt

Around here Easter ends up being a little like Halloween -- there is lots and lots of candy because Ryan gets to go to many Easter egg hunts.  This was the first 2014 egg hunt that we went too.  It is put on by the town at the local soccer fields.  It is a massive egg hunt.  Although, it isn't really the kind of egg hunt that I remember -- one where you have to actually "hunt" for the eggs, Ryan does seem to have a lot of fun.  There are 80,000+ eggs total and they divide them out onto fields by age group.  The whole thing is over in, oh, maybe 3 minutes tops and Ryan ends up with around 3 dozen eggs.  On this particular day, we were watching one of Ryan's friends from school.  He got even more eggs than Ryan-- he had around 5 dozen!  Anyway, here they are waiting for the egg hunt to begin. 

Look at all the eggs!

"Hunting" away!

Out of all the egg hunts, this is the only one that I remembered to 1)bring the camera and 2) take pictures.  We also went to an egg hunt in our neighborhood, at the farm, at a park with a group of friends from church, at Ryan's school, and of course the Easter bunny left eggs that you actually had to hunt for!

St. Patrick's Day

Linus the Leprechaun visited us on St. Patrick's Day again this year.  We were a little worried, because he didn't make it to our house until late in the day, but he did FINALLY come.  We chased him all over the house, but weren't able to catch him again this year.  He is always one step ahead of us!  This year, we found our first clue in the mailbox and it told us to go inside where we found this. . .

From the first riddle we figured out that Linus wanted us to go to where all of Ryan's toys are kept.  We found that he had made a staircase so he could play with some of Ryan's toys.  He left another clue AND that tricky leprechaun left a St. Patrick's Day activity for Ryan to complete.

Color By Number -- we all worked on it together.

Apparently, after he played with some toys, Linus used a necklace to make a rope ladder so that he could climb into the fridge and help himself to a snack.  Sneaky, sneaky!

All that milk made Linus have to pee and to our surprise his pee is green!  Sure took that little Leprechaun a lot of work to reach the potty!

Then it was off for a nap. . . Linus even left his leprechaun size slewing bag and pillow!

After his nap, it looked like Linus got together a group of Ryan's stuffed animals and read them a leprechaun sized book.  It was a silly one called I Have to Go by Robert Munsch.

After a trip to Ryan's art table . . .

Linus head back upstairs for a bath -- he even left his green glittery water in the sink!

Linus escaped out the front door . . . 

and managed to go for a spin around the neighborhood in the car . . . 

before leaving a green glitter trail . . . 

ALL the way to the backyard!  On the back patio we found that Linus had left us some new wooden blocks and some chocolate cupcakes with GREEN frosting and mini chocolate chips on top!

That silly Linus!

Ryan is already hoping that Linus will be back next year . .  .