Iris meets iris

Well, we really didn't know anything about iris flower unitl when our Iris was, like 6 months old. All we knew was iris is a name of a flower. When spring came this year, I was interested in flowers, for like a week. I did a brief research about iris, but figured it's not easy to grow them. Well, I must admit that I never grew any flowers at all. Then thanks to my little research, we happened to recognize iris at Riverbank garden early May.

Yesterday, I accidentally found out Swan Lake Iris Garden holds iris festival every year on Memorial Day weekend. Too bad by the time I found it, this year's festival just ended several hours ago. But it's good to know that the peak of iris season is mid-May till early June. So Monday morning, we suddently decided to go to see some iris and some swans.

We were a little late to catch this year's peak season. But there were still lots of blooming iris. We came here twice in the past and had no idea what iris is. I didn't even know that's a name of a flower until we decided to name our Iris about a year ago.

I don't know the name of the yellow flower. We got some in our yard and always thought they were weeds until one day we saw the yellow flowers... So glad we didn't cut them all.

My baby likes to see the swans. This black swan couple is so elegant.

The first time she was holding a feather

Heidi found a white feather. Literally she asked 5 white swans if the feather belonged to them. Of course they all said No, and she got to keep the feather.

Heidi gymnastics performance

Heidi has been taking gymnastics for a whole year. She didn't like it at first. She was scared. Little by little, she started to enjoy it and like it. After a year, she can do the simple turns and jumping. Most important, she is not scared any more! I tried to upload videos but blogger wouldn't let me... I am proud of our little girl!

Iris 1 year old

My baby Iris turned one two weeks ago. She is happy and content; a good eater and a good sleeper. We don't hear her cry except for bedtime. And usually she cries for less than 5 minutes before falling alseep. We are so blessed to have her!

Heidi is still working on the role as a big sister. Many times, she asked me if she can become a baby again. After I told her then she cannot watch TV, or play games, or eat a lot of snack, etc. She is fine to be a 5 year old.

Heidi will still be at her school for summer. She will move to the 5 year old class. Starting in fall, she will be a kindergartener at public school. Tough decision for us, but we are going to public K. Hope she enjoys it!

Kids Day of Lexington

We learned about Kids Day of Lexington from 89.7 WMHK, the radio station we listen to everyday in the car for 1.5 hours. See, we live in Richland county, but we are very close to the boundary of the two counties. If we go to any stores on Sundays, we always need to think about whether the store is in Richand or Lexington, because they have very different hours of operation.

Anyway, I debated whether to go to the Kids Day, since it's in downtown Lexington and it's a good 10 mile drive from home. It was a beautiful day so off went.

After we got there, in a few minutes, I was sure we will come here every year:) It is like paredise for kids: food, drink, game, shows, balloons, mascots, playground, fire truck, etc. Heidi was a little nervous at first, not surprising at all, she is always like that. After some popcorn, a popsicle, some candy, and prize from games, she felt much better. She didn't want to take pictures with any mascots except for Cocky. My own favorite is the Chick-fil-a cow.

All the kids were happy, and so were the adults.