Summer !

We'll start with pics from long-awaited Easter
The bunny finally came and left Zoe lots of surprise eggs to find in our back yard:
*note the haircut Zoe gave herself right before Easter :)


Fantik and Meeshka both help in the Easter Egg Hunt:


Mila helped too- and found a squicky duck toy bunny had thoughtfully left her!




Here are our two Easter girls:


And a few exciting spring outings:
Horse back riding at a friend's birthday party:



And rock climbing for the FIRST time (albeit in an indoor climbing gym)
Zoe made it all the way to the top of a really high climbing wall, ringing the bell on top was the best prize!




Then came a beautiful long spring- time to get our picnic blankets out and get some SUN!

And quickly came the time to hide from the sun :)

Enjoying one of the first sunny days on a bench swing in our back yard:


And finally the first picnic in our back yard with some friends!



For Mila some exciting first foods, like broccoli and cauliflower;

And another summer back yard party with friends!






Inspired by the Spring, here's Zoe pretending to be a spring flower:


Among other news, with Zoe's help Mila learned how to ride her whale toy:)



and learned how to stand up:



and now we can't get her to sit down for more than 2 seconds :)


Mila also grew some teeth ( 3 as of last Sunday)- can you spot them on the picture above?



And she learned how to help Zoe ( dismantle mostly :)) her Lego projects:



Mila started crawling about 2 weeks ago- and now there is no stopping her!





She also started her own blog on blogspot.com, but won't tell us the URL, so we are not responsible for the content of her blog if you happen to come across it on WWW;






Zoe's News:
Zoe graduated from her Nursery School- she will be starting Kindergarten in the fall- hard to believe our little girl is moving onto a big school!
Here are some pics from her graudation party:




Summer is a fun time here in Connecticut! Lots of outdoor events and festivals every week. Last weekend we got to enjoy Yo Yo Ma and his Silk Road Project band on the New Haven green square- it was fantastic! ( sorry - no pics)
Here are some from a kids art festival downtown New Haven:







You know it's true summer time when the pool water is warm enough! Zoe recently learned how to swim on her own- will need to take so pics, she is so excited about it! Mila just got a taste of outdoor water chilling and she liked it too :)


And finally, a few pics from Mila's recent 9months birthday party. She got to experience a few FIRST things all in one day- first SWING, first SLIDE, first SEE SAW and first time at the BEACH! Hands down, SWING was her favorite!



Next step for Mila is mastering the "Monkey Bars" like her Big Sister:




This summer is promising to be busy and fun- we'll try to keep up and post updates ( read: hopefully will post by Halloween:)

Bisous!