Emily & Ellery Graduate

On Saturday the girls graduated from the Nike Child Development Center.  They've been going for the last five years since they were just 7 months old.  This year they were in pre-K and it is time to move on and get ready to go to Kindergarten.  I'm a little sad because my babies have grown up in the center along with many of the same kiddos...but they are very ready for Kinder so that will fun, new, and exciting as well.   I can't get too nostalgic about leaving the center because Max will be starting in the infant class in September. 

 Here are a few photos of when they first started at Nike in the infant classroom (7months - 1.5 years)

Ellery & Emily even sleep the same

Emily

Ellery

Emily sending some emails

Emily

Ellery

These two photos below are from the Toddler classroom the next year.  (1.5 to 2.5 years).  They eat lunch family style.  Kids dish up thier own plates and empty them into the garbage themselves.  Messy.  Looks like the menu was salmon, rice, oranges, and green beans.

Emily (below)

Ellery

Graduation Ceremony, Grad Party, and Family Party

Max's Face

Max was barely a week old when we noticed that he made this cute little kissy face.  As he continued to do it every few days I realized it reminded me of the Zoolander face.  Uh oh.  Here's the original......

And here's Max's version....

This was at a week old

Maybe a month old

6 weeks old



June 2013

Sisters and Brother about the same age

Back to blogger

The Singer Family blog is coming back home to blogger.   The blog spent the last year over at another site and it was such a pain to update posts I completely stopped.   I decided it was time to bring it back to where it all began.  My last post was in Feb 2013 so there will be a lot of posts coming soon to get us updated.

Smiles

Along with the zoolander face Max also smiles and shows off is two dimples.  So cute!!

Max 1 month old

 

Fathers Day 2013 - Max  6 weeks old

Backyard Progress

Before photos. 

Tree way too close to our deck

Lots of loads of dirt being brought in to smooth out and level yard

Max and Sisters

Ellery and her bacon bandaids

Emily my summer girl

Cousin's in the park

My girls are growing up!

Swim Time

The girls have been in swimming lessons off and on since about a year and a half.  I've said before I'm not expecting the next Ryan Lochte or Michael Phelps but I think it's important that if you are ever having your kids around water (pools, lakes, etc) that they know about water safety.  I could care less about teaching them to swim the butterfly stroke but I absolutely want them to know what to do if they fall in and simple basic rules about water.   Especially since we have a yard perfect for a pool.  Maybe down the road we will install one but for now we have temporary pools and this year plan to have a much larger one so that they can actually swim around (and mommy can float on an air mattress with a drink in her hand).

We are back at our favorite swim school.  Children of the Sea.  Ellery is in a class that actually swims in lanes while Emily is still perfecting some of her kicks, and roll overs.  Hopefully in the next session or two she will be back in the same class as Ellery. 

These pictures are from the last class of the session called Boat Safety Day.  They get to wear life jackets, learn what to do if you fall out of a boat, and what to do if you and your buddies are all in the water in life jackets and need help.

Emily & Ellery

Smiling in anticipation of their boat capsizing

and there they go....

When you and your friends fall out of a boat or need help in a lake you should float on your back and all grab the buddy strap at the top of the jacket.

Maxwell 1 Month

Max is 1 month old today !!   He currently weighs 5lbs 13oz!  Finally back at birth weight.  He sleeps the majority of the day and we still have to wake him up every 3-4 hours to eat.  Sometimes he will wake up on his own, but not often.  We can't get enough of him!