Lyla's Birthday

#3 Birthday weekend

We met Matt's family in KC and celebrated Lyla and Blake's birthday since their birthdays are on the same day.  We got to meet Bethany's family and go to Science City and the Children's Museum which was alot of fun. Bethany is Matt's brother Joel's fiance.  We stayed with Nate and Ang and had alot of fun with them as well.  A very late thank you to them for their hospitality!
It was a busy weekend, and then the following Monday I brought snacks to Lyla's preschool class to celebrate her birthday, and we met my parents and Grandma at Chuckie Cheese.

Building a house at the children's museum

Done!

This could be the worst picture I have of the Schroeder clan.  Hey,  at least Blake is smiling.

The girls REALLY liked the water table at Science City.

Love that Blake

Ang made muffins for the kids on Lyla's birthday.  Yum!

More fun with water tables.  This time at the children's museum.

Preschool party!

Sharing favorite books, toys, and pictures of family

Chuckie Cheese!

Art Fair

#2 Art Fair

The kids had an art fair at school that we got to walk through and see things they had made throughout the year.

Hot Dog Supper!

She ran up to give Mrs. Lisa a big hug when she saw her.  Mrs. Lisa was a really good fit for Lyla this year. 

Thank you Mrs. Lisa for being a great teacher!

She made this with my parents on grandparents day.   She said it was "a house for a foot."
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Lyla on the left is a self portrait in the fall.  On the right was done in the spring.    She may think she has shrunk.

Preschool Programs

Trying to catch up on some past events....

#1: Preschool programs
We learned from Lyla's Christmas program that she does NOT like performing or even being in front of an audience.  I don't think she opened her mouth once during that program.  She had the same somber look during her spring program, but as you will see she did sing a little this time.  No smile though, and her face is definitely not showing happy!
Funny story.  She happen to be front and center for this program, and she often will pick her nose when she is nervous.  Sure enough, during the first song there was Lyla with her finger up her nose.  THANKFULLY, she did not lift up her dress up at all during the program, which she also often does when she gets nervous. See, when I got home after the program I saw her going to the bathroom and noticed she didn't have any underwear on underneath her dress. When I asked her about it she just said, "I forgot."

Lincoln's program and friends:

The picture is not good but he is actually quite the performer.   I hope he keeps it up, although he told me  he didn't like practicing for the program because "it takes too long and I have to sing really loud."  He didn't ever look like he didn't enjoy singing loud to me!

The friend to his left is going to the same Kindergarten as him.  I am so thankful because they got to be really good friends this year.

Thanks Ms. Caroline for all your hard work! Lincoln had a great year!

Baby Emmit

OK, this post is LONG overdue but I am just starting to catch up on things!  Emmit was born on June 6th at 12:31 p.m.  I was figuring an 81/2 pound baby since he was a week early and Lincoln was almost 9 1/2 at 40 weeks.  Nope, he was 91/2.  So far he has been a very good baby and the only time we really hear from him is when he is hungry.  The kids are good with him and get a kick out of watching me change his diaper because he almost always pees or poops while I am changing him.  The conversation will often be: Lyla: "ooh yuck, Lincoln Emmit just pooped all over, come look!" or vice versa.
The nursing thing has also been an interesting new thing for them.  Lincoln has of course had some questions about it, and Lyla has asked, "is he done sucking on you yet?"
I don't have enough room or time to post the many many pictures I have taken but here are some favorites:

Happy Father's Day to a GREAT Daddy!

Celebrating Father's Day and Grandpa Doug's Birthday!

The sleeping pose

Lincoln getting Gp Ed to smile!

I hope I look this good when I am 92!  Love that Grandma Doris.

It's pretty easy to keep him entertained with these two around.

Lincoln took this pic for me.  Had to capture the moment!

No training wheels!

Lincoln's training wheels broke this last month so we decided to give it a try without them.    His bike  is pretty big, and he can barely touch the ground so he wasn't making much progress.   Thanks Steph and Andy for letting us borrow this smaller bike.  He tried it out today and as you can see it did the trick!  A neighbor who we have never even met before saw us out, and said he would video tape us and send me the video.  He said he remembered chasing his kids behind their bikes too.  It was really nice of him!

A song for Grandma Brenda

I just showed this to Lyla one night and she sort of took off with it.  One of the blocks was missing so I copied the ending of the song for her.  I told her we had to show Grandma Brenda!

Snow Days!

We had two rounds of snow which ended up getting the kids and I FOUR days off of school.  It was awesome!  I have never seen so much snow around here! 

Some fun things we did over the break: 






Sledding at a park with a hill made just for sledding I think.  It is about the only place to go in Wichita if you want to go down a big hill!  I made the kids stay on the less steep side so it wasn't terribly busy for us.  The steep part was PACKED!




Joel's girlfriend Bethany got us tickets to a KU game-thank you Bethany!  Lyla stayed with Gp Doug and Gm Brenda while Lincoln, Matt, and I went to the game.  She was very excited to go to Gp and Gm's and could care less about missing the game!



KU game



AWESOME SEATS!





We were the second row up. Lincoln has his back turned here, and Matt is standing next to his friend Josh.



Making snow ice cream.  I had never done this before but a couple of my friends posted they had done it on facebook so I tried it.  Lyla said she liked everything but the snow!  I guess she didn't like the ice chunks.  When it all melted together she liked it.  Lincoln liked his with chocolate syrup.



This was alot of work for this pregnant mama.  I have to say I did not get much help from these two, although the younger one at least gave it some effort...   Good thing I like playing in the snow as much as they do!







When Matt got off work we had a snow fight.  It took him 15 min. to build his wall vs. my 2 hours.  Lincoln told me later that "next time he wanted to use Daddy's "fort" because his was bigger and worked better."






Painting