Love my guuurls!

Anna Kate has had the most wonderful two years at Mrs. Paula’s preschool!  She has made such sweet friends (Reese and Ella are two of them) and learned more than we could’ve imagined!  So thankful!

Although next year will be all about Rose (who recently arrived on the scene), Anna Kate will get to come back for the family events, like the traditional Easter egg hunt and back to school swim party!

Cutie Kate (this is her proud face)!

Not a secret, the Pond girls LOVE to swing!

Anna Kate’s special little preschool buddy, Luke, and the famous Mrs. Paula (holding Rose) and Mrs. Julie (holding Anna Kate).  Love these ladies and don’t know what we would’ve done without them the past two years!  I will forever be grateful to them for all of the love and care they have given to our family!

These cuties picked out their dresses for Mrs. Paula’s Preschool Easter egg hunt last week; I think they did really great!  If you haven’t noticed by now, Rose is a total crack-up!  We lob (love) her!  Noelle could smile/pose all.day.long and Anna Kate is always in the moment, happy-go-lucky (like her Daddy)… sweet girls!

We had the best time at Anna Kate and Rose’s Easter egg hunt at school on Thursday to kick off Easter weekend! We sure know how to have fun around here, and I’m so thankful for that and cherishing every moment with my loves!

Noelle and Rose had the most enchanted time at Emmalee’s secret garden tea party to celebrate her birthday!  Anna Kate was busy jumping with her friends at Urban Air trampoline park!

Emmalee (waving) and Grace (hugging) are Rose’s BFFs from school this year at Mrs. Kim’s!

Isn’t Texas a wonderland?

So prim and proper!

But really, this is more Rose’s speed!

Nothing was going on this day, except for imaginations at play!  I was busy working when Anna Kate and Rose came downstairs in Belle dresses!  After singing and dancing, they had a little coronation ceremony for Rose and acted out several scenes from Frozen together!

Their little impromptu dress-up turned into doctor and Rose’s pretend CPR on her baby was cracking Anna Kate up!

And she’s off… sliding into a world of imagination, learning, and most of all, FUN!

Mrs. Paula called me to tell me this morning that Rose was absolutely sure she found an alligator in the creek! 

First signs of a healthy garden!

Rose got to help make zucchini muffins this day; how exciting!

Recycling and learning all in one colorful bundle!

You can do it, Rose! 

I want to go to snack time at Mrs. Paula’s!

Sorting – check! Colors – check! Counting – check!  Hooray!

*As always, Mrs. Paula’s posts are her pictures that she so graciously shares with us.  We are so grateful to be a part of our kiddos pre-school fun and hope it inspires you as much as it does us!

We were beyond excited Aunt Jojo and Uncle Jim came to see us last week!  They’ve been traveling non-stop but had to see the Sorolla exhibit as a special artists’ artist treat, and of course, our babies too!

A new experience for our world-renowned artists: the self-serve yogurt experience!!!  Aunt Joe said it was, “Pretty wonderful!”

My Annas!

Tonight was filled with a joy that only feelings can describe!  And I’m so thrilled to post our pictures from this special time together on Uncle Jim’s birthday, which is today, April 14th (not April 1st), lol!  Happy Birthday, Uncle Jim!  I have enjoyed your infectious laugh and super big hugs from the day I was your flower girl oh so many years ago!  XOXO