Three Chicks and a Dude: Catching Up

Again, I have recently been a slacker when it comes to expanding my blog! So, again, I must attempt to update with a grand slew of new Frazier family happenings. Can you handle it? :)

April and May have been quite eventful. Caroline spent a week at Grandma and Grandpa Frazier's house in Loretto, Tennessee. She spent a lot of time helping Grandpa garden, helping Grandma cook, visiting family and spending time with Blackie, Grandma and Grandpa's sweet dog. Thank you Grandma and Grandpa for a great trip! Here are some photo highlights:

I should add that the reason Grandpa (a.k.a Grandpaparazzi) is not in any of the pictures is because he is most often the one behind the camera. The only pictures of him in the batch from Caroline's trip are of Caroline styling his hair. Let's just say I may have saved him some embarassment by not posting any of them. :)

Then in May, Caroline's precious preschool teachers gave her a "pretend" birthday party! Because we arrived in Williamsburg a few weeks after Caroline's 4th birthday, she didn't get to celebrate with her new friends. So Mrs. Carter and Mrs. Keyhayes decided to create a special day in May just for her. I love that they truly see the importance of celebrating each child. As part of her celebration, Caroline got to be line leader, weather girl, pledge leader, song leader, and calendar girl all in one day! Plus, she got to have a party with her friends, complete with birthday goodies. I was so busy getting ready for the party, I forgot to take my camera (kicking myself). But I did take plenty of pictures of the cupcakes I stayed up until 1 a.m. making. And I didn't even think they turned out all that spectacular. But when my little girl woke up the next morning and opened the fridge to get her milk, she saw them and said, "Oh Mommy, those are the most beautiful cupcakes I've ever seen!" And so my late night hours were all worth it.

After Caroline's party, I took the girls over to Colonial Downtown to take some pictures of them in their new outfits in some of Williamsburg's beautiful springtime gardens.

I had the most wonderful Mother's Day I could have asked for! My sweet, thoughtful parents met us in Lexington, Virginia for quite a memorable weekend. We visited the Natural Bridge and downtown Lexington. The girls were as thrilled as I was to see Nana and Pop. We enjoyed hiking through the woods, finding tadpoles in the streams, strolling the serene streets of historic Lexington, eating ice cream at a downtown shop, having a slumber party in our hotel, and daydreaming about which grand, victorian home we'd buy if we won the lottery.

Recently, we've been taking the girls to Yorktown a lot to spend time at the beach there. It's wonderfully clean and safe, and because it's right at the mouth where the York River meets the Chesapeake Bay, we get the benefits of a sandy, salt-water beach without crashing waves -- just what Caroline needed to get her over her fear of the water (well, anything other than bath water, that is). Everytime we go, of course, Caroline makes a new friend. And Claire loves letting the tide sweep over her feet so much, she eagerly tries to make her way back toward the water as soon as we try to dry her off.