North Henry's Parent Picnic

Ava's school had their annual parent picnic. I am so thankful to work close enough that I can leave and attend these events with her. It is sort of like their end of the year party. They have a big jumpy and parents bring a picnic to eat out on the lawn. Ava does not like jumpies, but she did have fun eating her special snacks I packed and playing with some of her friends.

Ava and her teacher Ms. Zephrea ( she loved Ms. Zephrea and had the best year!!)

Ava and her best friend/boyfriend Canon

Ava's class

Chelsey and the Baby Twins

Chelsey and the Baby Twins came to visit us Friday. Can you believe these babies are almost 1!?!! Last time we saw them they were just babies. Ava and Lauryn had fun playing dress up while Chance took a nap. We are very excited that June 1st Chelsey will be moving back and living really close in Conyers.

The girls playing dress up

Chelsey and Lauryn

Chance and Lauryn

80s Day

This week was Teacher Appreciation week and to celebrate we had themes everyday. Friday was 80s day and I had a totally rockin outfit.

Group shot

Me, Jennifer, and Natasha

Katie, Angela, Christina, me, Mo

Easter 2011

Ava and Uncle Shane hunting eggs

Cousins: James, Hannah, and Ava (I don't know if we will ever get a good picture of these 3)

The Easter Bunny came hopping to our house with a basket full of goodies ( candy, Mega Mind DVD, Ariel doll, Ariel pool toys)

Strawberry Patch

1st Annual Embrey Easter Egg Hunt

Since we have such a nice backyard we thought it would be fun to have an Easter Egg hunt for the kids. Ava was really into hunting eggs this year so this was fun for her. A few friends from work came and we grilled out and let the kids hunt eggs and eat lots of candy.

Peter did not have a basket so he used a shopping cart to put his eggs in

Sadie, Dianne, and Mariah counting their eggs

The McCrarys

Ariana eating candy

Aiden and Ava plotting

These two snuck off to the playset to eat candy

Ava's Spring Program

Ava's school did a little spring program. It was really funny watching the 2,3, and 4 year olds do their skits and songs. Ava's class did a few songs and it was really sweet. She was a little shy but other than that she did very well. It is amazing how much she has learned this year. She know her ABCs, can recognized the letters and knows what sound they make. She is working now on us telling her how to spell something and writing the letters out. She is really big on knowing what works start with and the sounds they make. Hopefully she will be reading soon. She also knows her numbers up to about 25 and can count things out. She only has 4 other boys in her class at school so we have been extremely lucky with the amount of one on one instruction she gets at school. It has really made a huge difference this year with her learning and development.

Singing the B-I-B-L-E

Spring Break 2011

We did not have any big plans for spring break this year but we did plan on going to the zoo. So on Wednesday we headed to the zoo with Meme and Ping. The weather was beautiful but the zoo was really crowded. Even with the crowds we had a great day. All the animals were out and we got to see everything. What was Ava's favorite animal......................the pandas of course. They were our first stop of the day and by far her favorite. Even Baby Bear got to come on the trip to the zoo!!!

Daddy Bear

Mommy and baby bear Po

Petting the goats

Brushing the goats

Picnic

Picnic Time

Picture Day

Here are a few pictures from the morning of picture day at school. It is so hard to believe how big she is!!!! Such a little priss!!!