Cue summer!

Ah, May...  I love it.  The weather is improving, school and routines are ending, and the excitement and promises of summer are in the air.  Owen is done with pre-school for now.  They had an end-of-year pancake breakfast at the zoo yesterday, and one of his teachers (Miss Margaret) had a retirement party.  

Here are Miss Margaret and Miss Ashley.  They had nothing but good things to say about Owen, and the feeling was mutual.  :)

We have suspicions that Owen has a somewhat photographic memory.  He has a deck of 45 cards that feature 45 different Richard Scarry vehicles with the number of vehicle occupants listed on each card.  Somehow we discovered that he had actually memorized the numbers based on a description of the vehicle, as evidenced in the video below.  (He usually gets about 65% correct.)  Similarly, he has memorized lots of U.S. states by their colors and designs from a puzzle.  Isn't the brain amazing?

Not to be outdone, I captured Hadley cruising behind a push-toy all on her own!  And waving (her new favorite activity).

Good ol' sibling time:  cooking and crawling.

Good ol' daddy time: mowing and playing catch in the yard.  Be prepared: pee-wee tee-ball is coming up in a few weeks!  We figured he should have at least seen a glove before hitting the field.  :)