May was ages ago and I frankly can't recall what we did aside from the pictures. To explain a few pictures: Macy's crying outside because we released her butterflies. She was extremely excited to release them, but once she realized they were flying away and not just staying next to her, the crying began and did not stop. We went to the Zoo with the Taylor family where Tyler's love for Mr. Duke grew infinitely the second he got to go for a ride. Course as soon as Mr. Duke was off of it, Tyler was on trying to figure out how to steal it from him.
June
June was a whirlwind of a month packed full! We joined the entire Bates clan at a Bulls game where we got to meet Scooby Doo. Macy had her first recital which was a long year in the making. The entire studio put on "Alice in Wonderland". Macy's class was red and white roses. Every Monday for an entire year Macy asked how many more days until I can dance on stage. For that entire year I feared she would get to the stage and refuse to go on. I'm beyond proud to say she got up there and danced her heart out as a beautiful red rose, loving every minute. My other fear was she would be sick the day of the recital and she'd miss it. Apparently I decided to take that illness for her and somehow came down with pneumonia. To make her recital even more special YaYa and Grampie came down. YaYa did Macy's nails and makeup for the show. In return Macy made them both fabulous cheerio necklaces. Macy also scored a bike out of the visit which she had a blast riding around the house until we convinced her to take it outside. Tyler got a new bell for his bike, which he thanked Grampie for installing by blowing it while he was trying to install it.
July/August
July and August were full of celebrations. We had our annual 4th of July Celebration at our house. Grandma and Grandpa came down to celebrate with us. It was the usual food and great friends complete with a mini fireworks show. This year the kids all stayed awake through the show, but Macy was still requesting Daddy stop so she could go to bed. The kids both decorated their bikes for the Falls River bike parade (aka mass choas trampling). Macy rode her new bike as proud as could be. Tyler "rode" his tricycle with support of his tag team Neil and Grandma. We went to see the Wake Forest official fireworks display which was the kids first major fireworks show. They loved it! After all that excitement we had a down day which was apparently more than we could handle, so we ended up getting guinea pig. The Taylor's neighbor's coworker had a guinea pig in need of a new home, so we adopted Timothy, which the kids renamed Captain Hook due to an obsession with Disney's new show Jake & The Neverland Pirates. The obsession is so great that Alexis and Macy had a joint Izzy birthday party. We got so unbelievably lucky and happened to plan the outdoor pool party for the day after Hurricane Irene and we couldn't have dreamed of a better day.
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