memorial day pancakes.

It's kind of a bummer. Usually calling Memorial Day a school holiday is silly because they are well out of school before the day but this year, the kids had a full week and a half left of school to go. In honor of it, we made strawberry, blueberry pancakes but in true Evans kids fashion, M wanted hers plain, L only wanted the fruit on top, and C was over the whole thing before the pancakes were even poured on the griddle. Oh well, making them was much fun!

Red, White & Blue...

Don't they look delish? Oh and I was completely out of powdered sugar so we had to go with regular granulated.

and after the swim meet we...

went to the pool to swim some more...what else?

These next two are probably my favorite of the evening simply because I totally love love love the lighting in them.

It sure didn't take long for C to find a cutie to join him!

little girl. big dreams.

To be the next Michael Phelps or better yet Dara Tores. That's whats she wants and more importantly, she is ready and willing to work as hard as it takes for it. At our first official meet she took first in FOUR out of five events including a no-breather in her 25y freestyle! For last week's meet, she was well on her way to a repeat but it got called for thunder and lightening. I don't know where she gets all this determination (ok, well maybe I have an inkling) but she swims six days a week with a private lesson thrown in here or there when she feels like she is slipping (it gives her a nice confidence boost too). What I truly love about her drive is that while she wants to win, she is not a bad sport. Sure when she finishes behind someone else, she is disappointed but never ever hateful or ugly toward the other swimmer. As a rule, she is to congratulate them and genuinely be happy for them especially when it's a teammate. On her quest to swim like Michael Phelps (even though she hates the butterfly), she wanted to buy his book at the book fair last week and brace yourself, she even had me buy a Phelps poster to replace her Kevin Jonas one...now that's some kinda commitment y'all

No one quite understands like swim friends :)

Three Piggy Opera & a Bee

C's class has been doing a lesson on bugs this week and as a project, he was to either create his own or make a model of an existing one making sure to label all the pertinent parts (ie. thorax, abdomen, antennae, legs, etc.). He chose to make a bumble bee and tonight he and daddy set about making it with some Crayola clay. Let me make clear that Daddy was only there as an advisor, not to do the project for him. Truthfully, it makes me crazy when parents take over their kids' projects; how can a teacher possibly evaluate the progress of a student when it's the parent doing all the work?

My what a big stinger you have...

Making lots of progress...

I think the antennae were C's favorite part.

Happy, happy kid...

A couple days later, we had a fully dry and labelled bee just in time to turn in...

On the day which also happened to be the Kindergarten program, The Three Piggy Opera which was the cutest version of The Three Little Pigs, kudos to the music teachers.

C was one of many wolves...

Throughout the program, he was always making sure we knew just where he was...

Boo's class got to see the program too and wouldn't you know, she spotted me and Daddy and gave a quick wave before heading back to class.

All those moms with little girl pigs better watch out when these wolves are on the prowl...

See ya later, mommy's little man...

On the way home, we stopped and T filled my car up...what a good guy!