April Recap

April would be the month of the revolving door -or slamming screen door, rather, as we had vistors galore. The front door slamming never sounded so good either. We hosted Ben’s parents plus McKay and Lindsay. We kept Mc for an extra week and took our trip to Kaua’i (see below). A few days later the 9:30 crew arrived – Jen, Alyssa, Chelsey, Noah, Sara and Mia. I call them that because they were beat and often asleep by 9:30. They could also be called the 5:45 crew since that’s what time they often woke up. With Ben’s parents we did a lot of hiking and birdwatching – when we would play back the pictures Ben’s dad took on the trip it went something like this – bird, bird, bird, whale, slightly blurry picture of a family member, perfectly crisp shot of a bird, etc. He also bought two books on birds of Hawai’i to remember his trip by. With the girls we did a lot of beach time. In other news…

Avery – Grew at least two inches. Must be all the peanut butter she is eating. I told her she was turning the color of peanut butter because of it and she believes me.

Miles – To sum up his achievements this month – words. Lots of them. A sampling of his new vocabulary include – Rain, Ice Cream, Outside and Chihuahua. He also became a bit of a bully while the “babies” were in town. He had a certain fondness for riding on Noah. Sorry Noah, he’s just trying to practice for becoming a jockey some day.

Ben - We saw a lot of him this month! He took the rest of his leave for the year and got off the rest of the month as early as noon and usually no later than 3. It was fun having him around during the day and he was gracious enough to do some babysitting a few nights so the girls could have some fun. Hope the kids enjoyed watching the NBA finals.

Me - I just put everything aside (including some bills that came due) while I was busy partying the month away. I did manage to get quite a few surfing sessions in this month and was able to take out my new – but old short board which has been a lot of fun. More on that later.