1st Semester Awards

I am very proud of my little girls.

They work very hard in school and do their best.

I firmly believe reading breeds intelligence,

and we read together often.

All I ask of my daughters is; to do their best.

 

Scarlet has passed off all her sight words!!

And Ella had straight A's for her first semester!!

I am very proud of them.

They are basically good little girls who really try.

I love them so much.

 

Pyramid

My little chickens are VERY energetic and sometimes I have to get creative to wear them out for the day. Ella saw a video of a mother and 2 young children doing some acrobatic person building, and decided we needed to rise tot he challenge!!

So after a few minutes of practice, we were able to build our own pyramid!!

Don't let looks deceive you!!

This is though!!

A lot of strength, balance, and body control is involved for everyone involved!!

 



Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day with children is so fun!!

Especially girls!!

 We made love bugs as our Saturday craft.

We take our bugs seriously as Grandpa is the 'bug slayer'.

 

 I got the girls pretty little piggy banks from The Front Porch.

I love that place.

It is so cute and quaint and smells so good.

I saw them there one day and have had them stashed in the closet.

 

 Here is my daughters.

Scarlet in all her glorious beauty.

oh my......

 

 I love having girls.

They're not vain about hair and clothes,

but we have FUN with hair and clothes!!

 

 They both had heart hair!!!

 

Grandma Bowler brought silly string....

We kept it outside!!

Scarlet was serious about shooting her silly string.

I saw a light in her eye that maybe worried me a bit!!

 

Kindergarten class parties are FUN!!

Especially if the Schouttens are in charge!!



 Grandma brought over 2 very cute puppies!!

They're soft and squishy and have the cutest little faces!!

I love these 2 little beauties.

I love their souls, and their laughter, and their love.



School Days

Kindergarten is the most fun grade!!

Because they do all the cute stuff and every little holiday is a reason to do something fun!!

For Ground Hog's day they went out to see if they could see their shadows and then traced them.

 Punxsutawney Phil said we had 6 more weeks of winter this year,

but he obviously does not consider Southern Nevada when he makes his choices.

Skirts and shorts are just weeks away....

Sigh....

 

 

Scarlet's teacher asked for each student to bring 100 of something for the 100th day of school.

This was perfect because they are also working on counting to 100.

So we pulled out the fancy Christmas buttons and she took 100 buttons!!

I love this age.

They are a little more mature and every thing is exciting and fun!!



Gravady!!

My wonderful, awesome brother in law

took his FOUR children,.

and my TWO children,

and headed to Gravady last weekend!!

Waiting for your turn is HARD.

 

Jed has been my brother for longer than the official (almost) 13 years.

He is so kind and gentle with my kids.

He takes them fun, wonderful places,

like the lake,

and to Gravady.

Or hiking.

Or shooting.

He puts Scarlet up on the ski trainer and tells her she can do it!!

I can do the same thing, but she can hear the fear in my voice and see it in my eyes!!

He has no reservations,

and all confidence that it will be ok,

and it always is!!

I appreciate he took my girls to do something fun.

 

Because I have hard days.

And they make me sad, because I can't go do fun things.

And I know my girls miss out.

And I feel the guilt,

and the common feelings of not being enough.

I am grateful to my sister's husband,

that he is kind.

That is patient and reassuring to nervous, or cranky, or crazy little girls.

I am blessed to have a wonderful sister,

who shares her wonderful family.



Ella's January

Ella got to go to the Wetlands Park on a field trip with her class.

It is not with in my boundaries to chaperone field trips.

So I did not go.

Around town, with in walking distance is fine.

Bus? Noooooooooo.

 

This is her cute little friend Rebecca.

Her mother is my dear friend,

and also the master mind behind my precious family book.

She is a good little girl who likes to PLAY.

I know if Ella goes to her house,

she is going to make a fort,

or play dress up,

or with dolls.

Not watch TV or be on a device.

I hold no judgment or even care if that is how other children play.

But MY boundaries are:

I want them to PLAY. 

 

 

Ella brought home the recorder.

She works so hard to do 'well'.

Every year at parent teacher conference,

her teachers praise her vocabulary,

and I am well pleased.

Words are so powerful and beautiful,

and I love that my girls feel the same way.

Ella loves music.

I need to get her into some lessons for one instrument or another.

She could easily play several because she is a very determined girl!!



Scarlet's January

My little chicken is flourishing!!

I had parent teacher conference before Christmas,

and she is doing great!!

A smart, bright child,

who just needs to work on neatness in hand writing.

I can't worry about that too much because MY handwriting is terrible.

I don't have time to write neat!!

I have thoughts!!

 

She got invited to a sweet little girl's princess party!!

They dressed up and got nail polish and everything!!

 

We went to my nephew's basketball game on Saturday morning.

Renn just wanted kisses SO bad!!

Scarlet is the youngest and not used to being mauled.

I feel like this is a really excellent experience for her!!

 

Ella brought home a recorder from music.

(Heaven help us all)

And Scarlet was sad she didn't have an instrument.

We made some drums!!

She's a natural!!