Summer 2010 memories

CHEESE!!!!!

love..love...lovin' time

Nice frames Meems!

Ella Grace

The girls with Cevelle

Here I come!!

Sisterly love

Ella's last t-ball game with her buddy Mackenzie

Making a swing in the living room

Maya and Olivia, her t-ball buddy

Hello :)

Weeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!

My beautiful angel

Making pizza and stacking the condiments with dad

Stealing cheese! LOL

Daddy making carrot juice with the girls

We need to take our weddin' pictures

I'm a weddin' princess

Posing for her weddin' pictures

Daddy teaching Gracie how to ride with no training wheels

Daddy and his girl

Look everybody no more training wheels!!

A garden friend in daddy's pepper plant

One thing I have learned for sure... Never are your attributes or flaws more glaring than when you see them played out before you in the words and actions of your precious children.... WOW! xoxox .... i love u kiddos...

Day 3 of home school

I am soooooo impressed with Ella. We are just 3 days into home school and she can already make a capital E in starting to write her name. She still has to work on the lla part, but at this rate I think she will have it down pat by Friday!

Currently Maya is in time out for eating her pencil eraser (several warnings first) and Ella is making a book about the letter X. One of the pictures in her X book is a fox. She said 'just like fox news!' Haha. I'm sure her daddy would be proud. We just have to cut and then staple!

One other newsworthy note is Ella stayed dry all night and Maya peed in the potty again today with Daddy! YAY big girls :)

P.S. On Friday the 3rd as I anticipated Ella did indeed write her full name by herself!

Home school

Monday, August 30, 2010 marked the first day of pre-school / home school for Ella and Maya.
They love it! The letter of the week is Xx, the number is 1 one, and the theme is 'School Days'.
They are learning the Lord's Prayer with the sign of the cross, signing the alphabet, the pledge of allegience, and the daily calendar among many other things.
My babies are growing up!
xo

Potty Dance!

M.E went pee pee in the potty for the first time last night!
The girls were in the tub and Maya stood up and said she was about to go and I said "WAIT!" I set her little Elmo seat on the toliet, wrapped her in a towel and she went! YAY MAYA!!

The mural from start to finish

Getting prepped

Before

Pizza party on the last day!

Tess and Ella

Grace and Maya

Here it is....
Tess, Grace and Joy from Louisville Visual Arts spent the summer designing and painting a whimisical and fun fairy mural for the side of  our dreary garage.

Kinda cool huh? xo

Ella

The nurturer, the mother, the responsible one. She mimics the good, she mimics the not so good. This child knows right from wrong, has a strong compass and will go far in life leading others where ever she chooses to go.

Maya

Maya recited the alphabet perfectly with zero help. She then counted to ten. :D