A K-Girl Update

So since my last update was about E-Man's birthday I figure this one will be for K-Girl...

Kindergarten has been such a fun experience for her. She has LOVED school and loved her teacher even more. I couldn't have asked for a better teacher than she had this year. With all her anxiety problems that came up Mrs. G has helped K-Girl get through them so well. She's definitely grown a lot this year.

About a month from the end of school the kindergartners got together and put on a concert for the parents. They sang a bunch of different songs and had the hand motions and all that went with them. Very cute. I tried to upload some video, but it turns out the video camera is dead so I'll have to see if I can do that later. Meanwhile I have some pictures. I wanted to get a picture of K-Girl before we left as she rarely lets me do anything to her hair and she rarely wears dresses. It's fun to see my little tomboy all dressed up cute.

And after a few more pictures like that she did give me a pretty smile without all the silly...

And then I got a couple during the performance but most of them didn't turn out very well. Here's one of the better ones...

Another picture I thought I'd share is from after our Mommy/Daughter day. K-Girl and I went out in the morning and we did some shopping and errands and whatnot together. At the end of it we stopped in at Starbuck's to get some gift certificates and I wanted a frappuccino. Well since we were having a special day I told K-Girl she could get her own frappuccino too. She got a non-coffee one - double chocolate chip. :) When we got home I was talking with The Husband and later found her underneath the kitchen table sipping her frap and drawing. I just thought it was funny.

June 9th was K-Girl's last day of school for the year. She was actually quite upset and didn't want summer to come. Like I said, the child LOVED school. She's coping alright though. It wasn't till I looked back to the first day of school that it really hit me how much she's grown. Just look at that...

It's hard to believe that come Fall I'll have a first grader and a preschooler...

E-Man turns 3

In thinking about what I've missed in blogging, the first thing of importance seemed to be that my little E-Man turned 3 on May 30th. He's getting so big. This year we decided that since all of his friends are in our playgroup that we would just have a party at the park for the kids. K-Girl was a bit sad because she would be in school, but we still celebrated on his birthday and have another joint birthday party coming up on Sunday for both kids since they are just a month apart.

E-Man decided that he wanted to have a Team Umizoomi birthday party. This was a bit more of a challenge because there is absolutely NOTHING out there party-wise for Umizoomi.

For the party I made a Happy Birthday sign which is now taped to E-Man's bedroom door...

And since the party was at the park that was all we did for decorations.

I like to have the kids wearing something that is within the theme of the party, but with no Umizoomi merchandise I wasn't sure what we were going to do. However, on the Nick Jr website they had iron-on transfers to print for each of the characters so I made E-Man a Geo shirt. (K-Girl got a Bot shirt that she thinks is pretty awesome.)

For the games we played pin the pigtails on Milli...

Each child got two ribbons with double-sided tape attached to stick closest to where her pigtails should be...

The two children closest got a tube of mini M&Ms for a prize.

We also did a number hunt. On 6"x6" pieces of cardstock, I glued the numbers 1 through 10. I used my cricut to cut out the numbers which made it go quicker. The Husband hid them while the kids were doing crafts. They had a good time searching for the numbers and then lining them up in order...

For a craft-type activity I found (also on Nick Jr's Umizoomi page) printable shape "blueprints". Each of the kids could cut out their shapes and then glue them to the blueprint to make their picture. There were different trucks, a plane, hot air balloon, etc.

Then it was time for the cake! We decided to go with cupcakes from Sam's as you can't beat the price and they are yummy! We got blue for Geo, pink for Milli, and green for Bot.

And before everyone left they all got a treat bag. I made printable stickers from Nick Jr and put a few in each bag along with M&M minis and lollipops. On the outside I put one of the stickers and the child's name...

The kids all seemed to have a blast and E-Man LOVED it so the party was definitely a success!

Hello Stranger

So it's been brought to my attention that I have not posted anything to my blog since April 2nd. Yes, I was aware. For some reason my blogging motivation went *poof*. I was trying to limp along doing Tofu Tuesdays and posting my weekly photos for 365, but even then I missed a week of posting pictures, got overwhelmed, and said enough with it all. I took down the ads on the blog and I've been trying to decide for a while what to do from here.

I'm no longer doing the 365 challenge, which is bittersweet. It was a very neat challenge and I did enjoy it while it lasted. I just kind of got sidetracked and noticed I hadn't taken a picture in like 5 days and figured that was it. I do have a bunch that I haven't posted here and I may share them...or I may not. But now again I hardly touch my camera. The reason I did it was to stop missing moments which worked while I was doing the challenge. Now well, I'm back to basically forgetting I have a camera. I do need to work on that.

Tofu Tuesdays, well one needs to cook in order to have recipes to share. I'm getting back to actually cooking again, but that's basically the explanation as to what happened there. I'm not sure if I'll get back to doing it regularly or not. Again, undecided.

I've been focusing a bit more off the computer and crocheting like a mad woman. Instead of the time I would be spending blogging and all of that I am sitting with my yarn and hook. I started feeling overwhelmed because I wasn't being a "good" blogger - visiting other blogs, responding to comments and all of that like I felt I "should" or like I had been.

Basically I think what I'm doing where this blog is concerned, is turning it back to a blog for me. I'll try to post more often, but if I don't you can know that the call of the yarn is too strong. ;) I'll be posting more about just mundane family stuff, sharing my crafts, and all of that. If I throw in a Tofu Tuesday here and there that will be great. If I remember to post more than once every 2 months that's even better. I'll see what I can do.