Megan's 5th Birthday Party

Today was Megan's birthday party. The theme was insects and we had a great time. First, we played games where we pretended we were bees in a hive,

then we played Buzz, Buzz, Sting,

then Pin the Bee on the Flower.

We ate Butterfly sandwiches and drank Nectar (an idea from Megan's preschool teachers) out of a flower with straws.

We put on fun insect aprons and decorated wooden insect plaques.
Everyone did beautiful work.

Then, we acted out The Very Hungry Caterpillar story, by Eric Carle. Earlier, we painted the foods from the story and then held them up as the children "ate" through them. Then we put ourselves into a cocoon (a bedsheet) and stayed inside until we were beautiful butterflies. The children chose two fabric pieces to wave in their arms while running around the yard. It was very cute to see how much they enjoyed it.

Next it was time for presents

After that we ate dirt (pudding and oreo crumbs in a cup).

What a wonderful party!

Megan Singing a Silly Song

May-Toe-Toe

Megan's 5th Birthday

New jacket from Aunt Sue!




A new wagon from the Grandparents!

Annual Party at Billy & Janis'

Bill & Janis' neice and her fiancee'

Billy & Janis

Cutie Pie, Misty

Ducklings Under Eric's Car

These cuties appeared in the morning, then we went away for the day and when we came back they were gone.

4th of July Spirit

Matthew's 8th Grade Graduation

Also, Eric got a new job in mid-June. He is very happy with his new position, and is now doing direct engineering work, rather than management. He will need to travel again, mostly to San Diego and into Tijuana, Mexico, as they have a plant just over the border.

Misc extras

Cupcakes "donated" by our wonderful neighbors, who took a cake decorating class.

Matthew's summer haircut- he is humoring me with this photo.

Sofia, Megan's Chaoyang sister, turned four and got this trike for her birthday!

Megan's Routines

These are posters I created, using line drawings given to me by Megan's Speech Therapist. She really loves to follow her charts and it helps her to stay on track.

Nail Polish

The girls had fun painting nails!

Megan Lost Her Two Bottom Teeth Today

After much wiggling and waggling, a proud Megan Ling unrooted BOTH her bottom teeth; one at 9:00PM and the other at 9:30PM. I told her she better get to sleep or the tooth fairy will be too tired to come!!