It's a Beautiful Life: What happened to April?

I'm not sure where the time is going??? Is it really May already? Because when I downloaded pictures for the blog today, I put them under my March folder.

I'm not sure where the time is going...but I do know it's going FAST!

Abigail has 2 weeks left of school...Crazy!

And Caitlin is only a few months away from starting school!!!!

We are definitely looking forward to the summer and having some more down time. I've been working lots the last few months, and Rob's work schedule has been rough. But summer will soon be here, which means the sun will stay out longer and we can soak in the evenings!!!!! Not to mention days spent at the pool...my favorite part of summer!!!!

Here are a few pictures I grabbed off my phone from the past few weeks. We've been busy, but apparently my camera's already on summer vacation!

Heading out one day with babies and jelly fish in tow! The girls really do EVERYTHING together. As you can see in this picture. "Dance" shirts (that's what they call shirts with a "skirt" on the bottom), leggings, flip flops, bows in hair, 1 doll, and 1 jellyfish. They are in such a cute, fun, best-friend stage. They hold hands everywhere they go and worry about each other!

The girls have ballet back to back, which means a lot of being a "Dance Mom" for me...and I wouldn't trade it for the world. Well, I'd trade it for a soccer field...but that'll come with time!

Caitlin's "self-portrait"..she's a little ghost apparently!!!

I should use this as a Caitlin catch-up.

*I feel like I never posted that Caitlin is fully potty-trained. She's been potty trained for about a month or so. She pretty much did it herself without a lot of help...just some friendly reminders! ;) She never needed a pull-up at night, which is WONDERFUL!

*Caitlin's been talking SO MUCH MORE. All these hours and hours of speech are beginning to pay off. I ~~think~~ know my FAVORITE thing she says right now is "Abbi". Even though it drives me BONKERS when people call Abigail Abbi, it's the sweetest thing I've ever heard from Caitlin and I've even started calling her Abbi. When we drive to pick her up from preschool, Caitlin yells in the car "Hi, Abbi! Hi Abbi!" Melt. My. Heart.

*This girl can dance!!!! I've really never seen anything like it. She can dance on her toes like she's been trained in ballet. And she loves it. As much as I can't wait to get on a soccer field, I have a feeling a dance studio is where Caitlin will spend her time. When she is 3 1/2 we can start Irish Dancing...I can't wait!!!!

Abigail's "self-portrait"..I love all her toes! :)

*Abigail continues to be self-motivated. We bought her a reading series to begin to read, and she loves to practice her sight words. She also loves to practice her phonics on our Ipad. She can probably read 10-20 sight words...and has a year of preschool left. We really aren't pushing her at all..in fact, I kind of want her to slow down and enjoy being a preschooler...but she's so self-motivated and wants to read everything! She also learned how to write her whole name, which is a BIG accomplishment! ;)

*Abigail has her 1st (and last I think) dance recital in 2 weeks. While she loves her dance class, she can't wait to do gymnastics this summer. I'm a happy mommy!

*Abigail's drawings are so adorable. I need to post some on here. She always draws the whole family..and she's very observant and notices/draws things I don't even notice.

Moving on..here was my view from a walk a few weeks ago...I love my view: