Henry's 4th Birthday Party with Friends (videos)

Henry had a Pool Party for his 4th Birthday Party and invited 4 friends to come to his party. Here are a few video from that.
 

First Day of Preschool

 The sun was shining in his eyes, so he didn't want to open them, so this is what I got.

Then he wanted to be silly and only have one eye open. By golly, he got it. Never actually saw him wink correctly at me before.

Time to make the trek in from the parking lot. He could ride the bus with sister, but I don't think any of us is ready for that. We'll see.

 I had told him I was going to take a picture of him outside up in front of the school and in his classroom and so he thought he would be smarter than me and asked me to take a picture of him outside by the barriers. When I was done he told me now I didn't need to take a picture of him outside the school so that everyone won't be looking at him. He is terrified of getting too much attention, but I told him, "Nice try buddy, but I am still taking your picture in front of school. You just gave me an extra one."

 Again, kinda a sunny spot so it was hard to get him to look at me.

 1st Day of 3 year old preschool. It went well even though he said he didn't want to go. He goes on Tu & Th mornings. Today he finished his 3rd day and it did not go as well as the other two. Makes my apprehension about sending him rise. Gonna give it this month to try it out and talk with daddy about things. Might just be mommy's issue that I need to get over or deal with. He is quite different than his sister.

Here he is annoyed because I requested he look at the camera when I take his picture. Ok, all done taking pictures.

MN Renaissance Festival

Some pictures of Henry from the MN Renaissance Festival. There will be more pictures on sister's blog and also tomorrow on my Wordless Wednesday on SGBG.

Swinging

A couple of pictures that didn't make the cut for the Wordless Wednesday on Save Green Being Green:

Edinborough Park

As I mentioned in a previous post, we went to Edinborough Park with some friends that had spring break last week. I will have a Wordless Wednesday with some pictures, but these are the ones I did not use.

Henry had been to this park twice when Isabel was much younger and home with me. One time he was only a couple months old and I think the other time he was about 6 or 7 months old. We had not been back since, so this was really his first experience there. He had a lot of fun and of course all the boys fell asleep in the van on the way back.

RBNC - 2nd time in 1 week

So, these are all the pictures from when we went last Saturday to RBNC with sister. There were only 3 days between visits, but so much snow had melted between then. On this trip we spent most of our time down by the river. Both kids were happy, Henry could throw rocks and sister could look for interesting rocks to keep. Such different kids.

I love this picture of the two of them.

River Bend a Week Ago

 Last Wednesday we went hiking at River Bend with some friends. It really is one of our favorite places to go. This top picture we were looking at some of the fossils they had there.

 Here is Henry with our friends (their school at spring break, so I was totally taking advantage of friend availability last week and them wanting to do something fun for their kids during the break.)

Our week looked like this:
Monday - swimming @ AmericInn Pool & Pizza Ranch Lunch (sister had spring break that day so our family went with another family from our town)
Tuesday - Edinborough Park with Ben, Tyler & Cole
Wednesday - Gymnastics class then 2 1/2 hours hiking at RBNC with Gavin & Amelia
Thursday - Kids Class at the History Center then an indoor picnic & playdate with Ben, Tyler & Cole
Friday - ECFE class
Saturday - Hiking at RBNC again with sister and then a sleepover with Gavin & Amelia & sister
Sunday - Easter Round #2

You can't tell from this picture, but we were letting an almost 7 year old guide up, which took up up the side of an large icy hill. It was quite an accomplishment that we all made it up there in one piece.

You can see the rest of the pictures I took from this hiking trip on my Wordless Wednesday.