Rest Stop

This past weekend we went to Muncie to see the grandparents because I took a class at Michigan State University on Friday (3 hours from Muncie).  It was great because we were already 3/4 of the way, so what is a few more hours to hang out with Grandma and Papa Cunningham for the weekend.  JR and the girls got to fish with Uncle John (and were very successful, to say the least--40 fish)!!  The girls loved riding in Papa's jeep.  Here they are just playing in it before we put car seats in it.

On the way home we stopped for a potty break about an hour from home.  Here are pictures from the rest stop!  By the way, despite the warm weather, the water was about 50 degrees....brrrr.  All these pictures (the best ones of the last month) were taken in about 5 minutes time.  So here is a glimpse of the famous sugar sand beaches of Lake Michigan.

May

As the weather has turned nice we have spent all our spare time outside...JR cut a tree down, the girls have played in the woods and scouted for turkeys, and JR and I have been watching the sunsets on a nightly basis.  Here are some pics from the last three weeks.

We have a duck with her 13(!) ducklings swimming by our place daily.  They are so darn cute.  When they are in their little line it seems to go on forever and when they are off swimming around, they look like little pond skaters darting around.  I have never watched little ducklings learn to swim before and I love it.

More nightly pics...

"just like a minivan"

I laughed so hard (inside, of course) when Nora was telling me about her day.  She rides the "transit bus" everyday the two blocks to the daycare lady.  The transit bus is basically a senior citizen bus, you know the kind, short bus either gray or white (gray in our case), cost $1, usually filled with 80+ years olds getting rides to the grocery store.  Well, Nora was on the bus today with three other little girls she knows (2 from preschool and one an older sister in about 2nd grade), and they decided to sit in the back.  Nora has mentioned before sitting up next to the bus driver, so today they really ventured far.  Her eyes were as wide as they could get and she was talking in full drama about how big the back seat was, "it was from one side of the seat all the way to the other seats.  It was huge just like a minivan."
Bless her little heart.

Potty Update

Today Clara had 1 accident and 4 successes.  Yesterday she had 1 and a half   :)  accidents and 4 successes.  We are on our way...