Well I think summer has already arrived here. We actually had to break out the bathing suit the other day and let Amy run through the sprinkler. Up until today, we've been having temperatures in the low 80's during the day and low 60's at night. Today however, decided to pour down rain and was on the cool side.
We have finished another semester of music classes. Amy will have a music class camp for a week this summer, and then in the fall she will move up another level in her music classes. In this next level they will actually start learning notes and how to read music, and their instrument will be the glockenspeil. She still loves it, and seems to be looking forward to advancing to the next level.
Her imagination continues to grow each day - and it's fun to watch. She will carry on conversations with between her animals or babies, or she will just make up stories to tell one of them - whomever she has with her at the time.
Dean and I recently had our 6 month cleaning at the dentist and Amy came along. She let the dentist count her teeth again and when he found a little spot that he wanted to take a closer look at, she let him do that too. Now, however, she needs to go back to have a sealant put on that one tooth. She's excited because she has her own "appointment", but I wonder how excited she'll be when the dentist starts doing what he has to do.
There are days when she really seems like such a little adult, carrying on full conversations, asking questions and seeming to understand the answers we give her. And then there are those days when a temper tantrum erupts or she tests the boundaries and we are reminded that she is after all, only four years old.
Amy went to her first baseball game on Tuesday night. Amazingly, she actually sat and watched some of the game, asked questions, and generally had a good time. She was up way past her bedtime - and wasn't cranky. We went to the minor league Rome Braves game. They built a stadium here about a year and half ago for the team, and this is their second season. We all had a fun time, but I think Amy really enjoyed the "Dippin Dots" ice cream the most. The thing she liked the least - the team mascot. She hid her face both times he came out, actually trying to bury herself into Dean's chest the first time he came out. We get to go to another game next Friday night - so now that I know I can bring my camera, we'll get lots more pictures then.
Happy Easter everyone.
While we weren't able to get a picture of Amy in her Easter dress and hat, we did get some other pictures of her helping with the landscaping we did this weekend. We had a pleasant weekend, cool and a little damp, but good planting weather.
Amy was also having fun playing with two of the neighbor babies. Alison Whitt and Caleb McCurry - both who will soon be a year old. We had a mini baby boom in the neighborhood last year with at least six different families having babies, three of which were on our street.
Easter was a big thing this year. She had two different Easter egg hunts that she went on. One was at school and the other was through her Cubbies group. When I picked her up from the one at school she announced to me as she got in the car that she had gotten way too much sugar. She must have had close to 30 eggs in her bucket. Fortunately she decided that she didn't like a lot of the candy that she got, so we were able to throw some of it away. The second hunt she only came home with about 8 or 9 eggs, and we've just incorporated that candy in with the rest. It will probably last us until August at the rate at which she will eat it.
We did a lot of work in the yard, pulling out a bunch of old plants the original landscapers put in when they built the house and then adding a bunch of new, mor colorful ones. Last year when we had a section of our yard sodded, we had them expand our flower beds around the sides of the house. On the north side I planted a few spirea bushes and this year have since added some hostas and ferns. Just that little extra has really helped that side look much nicer.
Out front is the biggest improvement. We planted lantana, calendula, snap dragons, verbena, evolvulus, a japanese maple, dahlberg daisies, candytuft, and what was called a lily of the valley shurb. Amy helped me pick out a lot of the flowers, expressing a definite opinion of what she liked and didn't like. She also had fun washing the tags from the flower pots and arranging the different pots into different piles based on their sizes. 
