June (Pt.1) - Dancing, Graduating, and Shaving?

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As the school year wrapped up, the last round of end-of-year performances kept us busy -- and entertained.  Emma and Murphy sang and signed (sign language) their songs, including the Pledge of Allegiance by Murphy's Kinder/1st class.  Emma's 2nd/3rd grade class also demonstrated some traditional American square DANCING.

Waaay too cute picture of my four chickens after E and M's performances!

Yes, it's June.  Yes, Emma insisted on her Christmas boots... 'cuz they matched and were good for dancin'!

We were so grateful to the sweet staff at Bright Futures Christian School for letting our Zinash step in at the end of the year to help her with some educational balance!  The experience she had there (as well as with her homeschool co-op earlier in the year) helped her make incredible academic strides.  She has officially 'GRADUATED' from preschool and will be a full-blown Kindergartener in the fall!!

She is getting ready to do the line, "All the king's horses..."-- note the stick pony!  Zinash loves that on Sundays at church, she gets to see her teachers from this year: Miss Tia (pictured here) and Mrs. Melody.

Hair's what also happened in June.  Zinash had her hair braided at a 'real' hair place (off MLK in Portland) with a sweet woman, KayKay.  She did great, but the braids were too wide and came out too quickly -- however, they worked GREAT for vacation!! 

Yes, she took her "My Twin" doll with her for moral support!

Murphy, not to be left out, got his 2nd annual after-school mohawk.  You can see how much hair he had before -- and we ended up with a 4-inch mohawk!!

I know, it doesn't look very long... but look at the post for this year's Redwood Forest vacation ** coming soon** to see the final result.  My mom suggested we spike it, so we had to oblige!!