Lily Picadilly

Well, we survived Lily's last test prior to Kindergarten! We met her teacher, Mrs Thacker, and saw her classroom and where she will line up each day. All very exciting (and a smidge heartbreaking). As for her testing, Lily proved she could write her name, count to 30, add and subtract simple numbers below 10 (in the form of word problems no less!). She even recognized all the letters of the alphabet, and wrote the numbers 1-10 (with a small bit of assistance from copying off the number posters). I am SO proud of her!!

The word problems shocked me the most. I didn't know she could do it, but she told me later that her daddy has been teaching her math. GO DADDY!! Her teacher said to her "there are 4 ducks in a pond and 2 ducks come join them. How many ducks are there?" Lily correctly answered 6 without hesitation. Next "I have 5 bouncy balls all bouncing on the sidewalk, and 3 bounce away. How many bouncy balls are there?" And once again, Lily correctly answered 2 balls. Her teacher then used 4 round chips and 'hid' some of them in her other hand. Each time, Lily was able to look at her hands and determine correctly just how many the teacher was hiding. It was awesome!! We also have her first homework assignment! Lily gets to decorate a poster that we brought home from school. It has questions on it and places to put pictures and things like that. It is really going to be neat. I just need to get the pics developed from walmart that we want to use.

Anyways, it was a good day at Kindergarten for Mom and Lily alike. Still hard for me, but it feels better knowing how her day will go, and where she will be etc.

Kindergarten Girl!!

Lily is entering Kindergarten Aug 4! She is ready, her mom is not! What's a mother to do??? Some days I feel like crying, some days I feel like celebrating, and some days I just sit and think on it, and realize that here goes my little girl for the next 12 years or more! Today I am taking her to her new school for her last Kindergarten pre-assessment....hope she does well! She did really good on her last one, and is excited for this one. The funny thing is, she asked her daddy if we could take her to Gavin's dish of Ice cream (Leatherby's) for her doing good on her test. Smart girl! I guess she heard daddy telling me that he would take me out to ice cream for doing well in my own schooling! Despite my nerves about her going to school, I think we are all ready.....we have the backpack, pencil box, pencils, crayons, and glue sticks. Half of that will most likely not be needed or used, but it is still fun to get it for her; helps her feel like a big girl on her way to school. Well, as much as I worry, I know she will do well.

New background!!

Thanks a million to Jen, Jake's sister for our amazing background! Love the colors....very classy!!
Lots of love Jen!!

Lily Ballerina

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Here she is! (slideshow to come asap) Our little ballerina. Lily had the opportunity to take a 6 week ballet course through Community Ed. She loved it! And the nice thing is, she didn't chicken out at performance time. I think it helped that the performance was in the same room as her practices....no new scenery. The only bummer about it all is the stained leotard. She decided to wear her ballet clothes out to the garage to see daddy, and we didn't know it til she had the grease and oil, and who knows what else on her hands, then her clothing. Oh well. Good memories were still made!!

Yay for baby!!

Quinn has learned a new word!! He raises a hand in the air and shouts 'I'!!! He also holds objects to the side of his head and says 'I'. Sometimes we can get the h sound on the front.....too cool!! He is still working on waiving, and not just putting his hand up. He can do a really good finger closing wave with his right hand, ask him to do it with his left, and he stares at his left hand while trying to do it, and you can see his right hand doing it still! How's that coordination coming kiddo??
Now Quinn can say mama, daddy, lily, and hi. 'Mama' is really good, 'daddy' is good, 'lily' is still a yee-yeeeee, and 'hi' is just too stinkin cute. :)

Night and Day its Cinderelly!!

Well!! If this just wasn't a kick in the pants funny moment! I woke up, and Lily demanded I get her breakfast, I told her to wait till I got out of the shower, and I would get her something to eat.
Once I got out of the shower, I went downstairs to get dressed, and a few minutes later Lily came stomping down to my room and said "MOM!!! You STILL haven't gotten me my breakfast! And I want it! I told you. I am hungry!" I was shocked. At a complete loss for words, I said "Lily, you are rude. I will not talk to you right now. You go upstairs, and when I am done dressing, I will be up." She stomped off.
When I got upstairs, I proceeded to tell her that she was extremely rude to me, and that it was not nice at all of her to talk to me like that. I said I would get her breakfast, and she was mean about it. By now she had tears, and whispered she was sorry to me. I asked her "What do you think you make me feel like when you treat me like that?" With more tears, her quiet reply was "Like Cinderella". What's a mom to do now? I realized then that she realized that she was behaving like a wicked stepsister. Not quite the answer I expected, but one that will do just fine! She apologized again, and we hugged, and made breakfast together! What a way to start the day! Love you Lily!

look out hollywood stars!!!

SO!! There we were in the dollar store the other day, and I saw these HUGE sunglasses...the kind that reminded me of the shades worn by Hollywood stars trying to hide their faces...expect these were purple and yellow! Awesome! So I put them on Quinn, and the silly boy smiled and laughed and thought it was the greatest thing in the world! Of course then big sister lily and cousins kim and shay had to have their turn with stardome as well. And this is how it turned out......what do you think? Stars in the making??