Charlotte can't wait to put the tooth under her pillow for the tooth fairy! I wonder what she will leave behind?
Charlotte was lucky enough to have friends over to share the exciting event. Nick, who has been friends with Charlotte since they were 6 months old, is an old pro at loosing teeth. Callie and Lily were very envious of the whole event. 
Sammy spent most of his time playing on the clean grass with his buddy Elijah.
Here, Charlotte and a friend are all clean, but just a few minutes later they were into shaving cream and cookie decorating!
Lily loved using flour to dig and play in. Flour gets very gooey when you go in the sprinkler afterwards. Lily had seriously sticky hair in the bathtub that night! 
Charlotte is thrilled that now that she is on vacation, she can spend tons of time with her good friend Isabella. Charlotte and Isabella no longer attend the same schools, so they didn't see each other as much as they would have liked this year.
Lily loves strawberries!!! She was so happy to be eating her way through the patch. 
Charlotte filled her container until it was spilling over.
It was fun to have Grandma come along for the picking trip.
Lily and her buddy Sienna, riding on the hayride.
This was Sammy's first trip to Ward's Berry Farm. He loved the bumpy hayride, but was still too little to try some of those yummy strawberries. Maybe next time, Sammy. 
A few days after the butterflies emerged, we got to see the complete circle of life. We released the four butterflies into the yard. Needless to say, the birds were very interested... Three gracefully floated off, only after landing on both Charlotte and Lily, which was thrilling for the two.
Sammy found the hose to be far more interesting than the butterflies.
Charlotte received an egg sac filled with praying mantises nearly six weeks ago. The kids waited and watched patiently for so long. I was sure that the mantises hadn't survived, and then finally, hundreds of tiny insects came out of a sac the size of a walnut. It was amazing! We immediately let go all but five, and separated them into jars. Apparently, a hungry newborn mantis will eat everything and anything that it shares space with... We will keep the mantises for a few weeks for the girls to observe and then release them into the garden. 
Charlotte loves to climb trees. Her Nana once said that if you want to get a happy picture of Charlotte, get her to climb a tree. This was her first time climbing our cherry tree in the front yard. She was so happy to make it up to the first branch, and now she spends all of her time in it. It is really tall. 
These days, Sammy is keeping us all very busy. He is just so curious about everything.
Wonder what it is like under the chair? It is hard to get out!
On a rainy morning, we decided to get out of the house for a little walk. Naturally, the kids don't care what the weather is, they just want to be outside!
