June Madness

As soon as we got back from Utah, we were thrown in to the craziness of June!  Our pool was finally warm enough for the kids to swim, although they never seem to mind when it's freezing, either.
  

  
Elise had her first dance recital!  Her class wore pirate costumes and danced to "Away Away Away."  The dress rehearsal was great, but for the performance, the teacher was offstage, so none of the girls was able to remember what came next.  It was cute anyway.
  

  
Connor had a "show day" at gymnastics, and although he had only been at this gym for a few weeks, he did a great job.  (We had been going to a much farther away class before that.)
  

  
Evan was just tagging along to everything.  He missed a lot of naps.  
  

  
Earlier in the year we had planted seeds for a butterfly garden.  It's been pretty neat because the type of flowers in bloom keeps changing as the season progresses.  The kids had fun trying to be the first to spot a new flower.  Oh, and there are sometimes butterflies, too.
  

  
Connor's class had their last Celebration of Learning.  They had been doing an animal class that included training a rat to run a maze.  The teacher had all kinds of cool pets that she frequently brought with her.  Connor's passion project was on magnets, and he did the poster almost all by himself. (Even the pictures are of Connor's hands.)
  

The Rat Maze