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She wasn’t cracking too many smiles until she found me in the audience at the end.

Dress rehearsals at home!  These girls love to practice for us. So much that they know each others songs now.

Amelia’s recital is this Sunday.

Daphne dances with Ms Katie on Mondays at her preschool.  They have a recital in the gym.

She got to start “Let’s All Dance Like A Daisy” from behind a flower pot!

We can do the Daisy Dance all day…

She also did a tap to an alphabet song.  Her line was “B, you’re so Beautiful”.  My favorite part is “Alphabetically speaking, you’re o-tay!”

Daphne is actually 43 inches tall now, a new ride category at Busch Gardens.  Clearly in the purple.  She’s been talking about it all winter.  We finally made it down there, after she’s been asking all spring “When are we going to Busch Gardens?”

Daphne is our brave girl.  She rode this once with each of us, and in general is game to go on most rides.

Still smiling, second time on the ride.  (Thanks for the glasses, Mel!)

And on the swings with Ethan (which Amelia likes, too, but only in a double seat).

Amelia isn’t as brave.  Daphne gives Amelia a good push, sometimes.

This is a roller coaster that makes a water spray after a loop, and they are waiting for the approaching spray.  Amelia’s ducked behind Ethan for protection.  Daphne says “Bring it on!”

This is more Amelia’s pace:

This is a giant tube slide to get down from a tree house & net climbing structure.  I love the slide.

The big event was the Roman Rapids- a water tube-get soaked ride.  This is the ride Daphne talked about all winter.  We all went, we all got soaked.  They didn’t want to go again.  Until about 10 minutes into the car ride home, when they said maybe they’d go twice next time.

Awesomeness!  Purple under eye stripes are left over from field day.  Leotard was from practicing her dance recital song.  And of course, safety gear.

And, yes, I cannot get enough of this kid.

Amelia had field day at her elementary school.  Daphne and I visited and had a blast!  My favorite moment was 280 kids singing the national anthem.  They sounded like angels.

The first event of the day was a good old-fashioned tug of war:

Hippity-hoppity relay races!

Funny feet relay!

Parachute fun- Daphne is so happy!  She wore her yellow preschool shirt since Amelia’s team was yellow.

Where’d they go?

The big kids practiced the events in gym class and they were great about teaching Daphne a few of the events.  Here they are explaining volleyball to her.

They both had a great time and slept hard that night.

We had a quick three days at the beach with Bebe, Grandpa, Aunt Karen, Uncle Anthony, and Cousins Katie & Allie Grace.  They had some fun in a huge hole a family dug down the beach.

And getting buried.

They lost one toy horse- never recovered after being buried.

Here’s Amelia, licking her ever lasting gobstopper, watching Charlie & The Chocolate Factory.

We read the book and watched the movie.  They didn’t get very far into the candy.  Both girls’ jawbreakers are sitting in bowls in the counter, as big as when they were unwrapped!

Amelia has to bring in pictures (drawn or cut out) each Monday that start with the letters they learn each week.  This week was gl, pl, sl, and fl.  She drew Augustus Gloop for “gl”, from the book/movie.