Happy Spring! We are loving this warmer weather. For the first time, Tyler is really wanting to play outside. Usually Ben wants to play outside but Tyler wants to stay inside and it can get tricky if there is just one parent home, especially now that we don't have a fenced in yard! Anyway, we are really enjoying time in the yard, can't wait for the weather to get warm enough to get out the water slides. The boys are also really liking bike rides this year. Ben finally had the courage to ride the bike that attaches to dad's bike. The whole time he kept saying "this is awesome" now he asks all the time if we can go on bike rides. I pull Tyler in the buggy behind me and anytime i stop, he gets upset because he also wants to keep going.

Had a great moment in the car today. Tyler's ipad is on the fritz and he usually plays with that on the way to school so today he was using his Dynavox. He pushed "old macdonald" so i started singing and then I paused when it came time to choose an animal, so tyler pushed rabbit so I sang it with a rabbit, then he pushed snake, etc. etc. Ben and I were singing along while Tyler chose the animals. It was so much fun to have Tyler "talking" and participating with us in the car.

We've also noticed Tyler's imitation/imagination skills are improving. lately he's been imitating a frog, bunny and turtle. We praise him often and make this a lot of fun for him in hopes we can get him using his imagination more often. Annie's (his second school) is noticing how much more interactive he seems to be in the last month or so. I've even noticed Tyler take Ben's hand a few times to lead him somewhere. All and all his social skills seem to be stepping up a bit. He's also beginning to eat some foods that he had elimianted from his diet not so long ago like pizza, spaghetti and yogurt, yeah Ty! Having a limited diet and then a picky eater can be tricky.

Ben's going to see his kindergarten classroom/school for the first time today. He's looking forward to it but says he's going to miss his girlfriend Brylee:)

Other than that we are trying to get Ben excited to be the ringerbearer in a wedding. Right now he says he doesn't want too. We've been bribing him and telling him how much fun it's going to be. Oh and as you can see from one of the pictures, he's practicing his dancing skills as I tell him there will be a big party at the end where he can dance and have cake!

Ok that's about all from the Cretsingers, the boys are doing fabulous.

xoxo