She couldn't wait for the season to start. She loves this game. Yesterday was the last tournament for this 5th grade team. She played hard, learned new skills and gained more confidence.
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Sunday, February 19, 2017
Valentines
treats for daycare kids
an annual tradition on valentine's day...ordering a heart shaped pizza from Jakes
valentine craft with daycare kids
teacher valentine's
working on her class valentine's
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1st grade family night
Tuesday was the parent in action fun night for 1st and kindergarten. Reyna was pretty excited that this year her Dad was able to attend with her. Usually he is at work but this year he was on vacation. They read books together, played bingo, learned to draw a bee, and played music together.
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Finally
The quarter is free. Two years ago on April fools day I glued a quarter to the driveway. Small children and adult children have attempted to free that quarter with no success. Friday this little guy finally got that quarter loose. He was pretty we excited to show me and even more excited when I said he could keep it.
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Bike ride
Bike ride in February. Today the temps were in the upper 50's. The sun was shining. We took advantage of the mild weather, and spent most of the day outdoors including a bike ride to the lake. It's still winter here and we all know that snow and cold will return so days like this are embraced and appreciated for the beautiful pause in the long months of winter.
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It's girl scout cookie time!
What we have learned so far about selling Girl Scout cookies....
...People love them!...There will be tears shed when your girl scout realizes she can't eat her favorite cookies because you sold out of her first favorite cookie and also her second, third and fourth favorite cookies on the first day of sales.
...you will count and tally a lot of boxes and cases again and again and again.
...when your numbers are off by 2 boxes and you're wondering which child or adult may have consumed them and so you pay for those boxes while quietly studying the faces around you for the guilty looking one only to discover a little later that you actually added wrong.
...you are probably driving the cookie manager bonkers with your multiple requests to order more cases of cookies.
...you count cookies instead of sheep in your sleep.
...every day you fill the van with cases of cookies and when you return home you remove all the empty boxes.
...you're thankful your husband chose this week for vacation although he will most likely never choose vacation in February again...he has been the driving energy supporting that girl scout in her cookie fundraiser.
...you wake at 2am hungry for cookies, the box of s'mores cookies on the counter is calling your name and you try to adult and ignore it but after 30 minutes you realize it's impossible so there you stand at 2:30 in the morning eating a cookie and drinking milk and when you notice a small body stumbling your way you ask "did I wake you?" And he replies "No, the cookies did" so you hand him a cookie and together you enjoy a wee hours of the morning cookie break.
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A first
We made it to age 9 before this boy made an ER visit. With the way he moves it is surprising we have avoided this trip to date. The boy has no fear, and his brain doesn't always cue him in to safe and not safe activities.
What finally landed him in the ER? A seashell in his ear. He and Reyna were spending the night with Beckie and Greg. When for whatever reason he stick the shell in his ear. 4 hours in the ER and they were unsuccessful in removing the shell. Monday morning we took him to an ENT who was able to retrieve the shell. When I asked him why he serial "I wanted to hear the ocean."
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1st communion
Rosie's first communion. It was a good day...Rosie's smile says it all. (We rarely capture a natural Rosie smile, she is not a fan of picture taking so thankful for the one who snapped this photo Sunday.)
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Danceline extravaganza
My dad has attended a lot of dance performances over the years.... he
has sat through countless recitals, and danceline extravaganza's. Here
he is with most of the dancers he has watched perform (we were missing
Cassandra in this pic)
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Golden Gophers girls basketball
A few weeks ago yahaira was able to join her basketball team along with varsity, B, and C teams to travel to a see the University of Minnesota girls basketball team in action. She spent a Saturday traveling by bus and taking in the game after they were able to meet some of the team. She had a lot . ell me about her day, loved hearing her excitement about her day spent with friends watching a game she loves.
Valentine's box
"I need to make a box for Valentines Day" she said the other day. I've heard that request often over the years. So I asked "what were you thinking?" She quickly replied "Trolls" so I headed to Pinterest to gather ideas. Tonight she pulled her valentine class list from her backpack and said "Remember I need a box" I suggested we work on it tonight and she quickly helped me gather supplies. With several windows open on the computer showing trolls we pieced together a troll valentine box. "When do you need to bring it in" I asked? "It tells you on here" she answered as she handed me the paper from school. As I scanned the note my eyes landed on the sentence that said your child should bring a brown paper bag....which we will use to make a creative valentine bag. As I read the note to her she smiled and said "maybe we should have read the note first" *yes perhaps we should have done that* "I am going to save this and use it for my birthday party." She announced. She decided three months ago that Trolls was her birthday party plan....and so tonight we checked one thing off her birthday party to do list. My organized brain is happy and so is the birthday girl. Her birthday isn't for 3 months but this one believes in planning ahead at least when It comes to her birthday.
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Saturday, February 04, 2017
Science fair
I have been blessed with children who procrastinate, timelines,
schedules, organized process are all cheerfully ignored by these live on
edge small people. She started the board an hour ago....it's due
tomorrow. My organized, list making, orderly brain is freaking out
right now. She on the other hand has all the time in the world.
I posted the photo above and these musings to Facebook the other night. I had tried to be proactive and get her to start the actual experiment during Christmas break. She was pretty eager to do so, but the first round of bread samples were compromised when her younger brother ate them. The next set was prepared and we gave it another go and nothing happened after two weeks plus a few days there was still no mold growing. I found some raspberries in the refrigerator one day and we added the most moldy one to the slice of bread sitting on the counter near the snowman light, perfect mold growing conditions according to her reasearch, humidity and heat. The raspberry shriveled up and stopped producing mold. I kid you not we grew no mold. With only a week and half left before the project was due, she set up more bread samples and sent one set to Grandpas house (he threw them away, forgetting they were Rosie's science fair experiment) and one set to Beckie's. She checked a few times and no mold and so she finished the project as best as she could which landed us here, the night before it was due, where she had to type all her data, create a chart, print pictures and assemble her board...none of which she started until well into the evening, having after school espark, and then basketball practice. I figured it would be a late, late night, but as is so her she finished before 10 and when I asked to take a picture of the completed project I got this Rosie look that I see so often when I've spent the time freaking out and she just moves through it in her calm and steady way. The next morning her big sister sent a photo of one of the slices of bread covered in mold...at least we grew mold somewhere.
I posted the photo above and these musings to Facebook the other night. I had tried to be proactive and get her to start the actual experiment during Christmas break. She was pretty eager to do so, but the first round of bread samples were compromised when her younger brother ate them. The next set was prepared and we gave it another go and nothing happened after two weeks plus a few days there was still no mold growing. I found some raspberries in the refrigerator one day and we added the most moldy one to the slice of bread sitting on the counter near the snowman light, perfect mold growing conditions according to her reasearch, humidity and heat. The raspberry shriveled up and stopped producing mold. I kid you not we grew no mold. With only a week and half left before the project was due, she set up more bread samples and sent one set to Grandpas house (he threw them away, forgetting they were Rosie's science fair experiment) and one set to Beckie's. She checked a few times and no mold and so she finished the project as best as she could which landed us here, the night before it was due, where she had to type all her data, create a chart, print pictures and assemble her board...none of which she started until well into the evening, having after school espark, and then basketball practice. I figured it would be a late, late night, but as is so her she finished before 10 and when I asked to take a picture of the completed project I got this Rosie look that I see so often when I've spent the time freaking out and she just moves through it in her calm and steady way. The next morning her big sister sent a photo of one of the slices of bread covered in mold...at least we grew mold somewhere.
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Celebrating
We celebrated big Roses birthday on the 26th. (With two roses in the house at times the kids started calling Rose big Rose and it stuck, they have known her their entire lives) She requested Mexican food we were happy to join her.
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Basketball
Her first year in junior high basketball. This year she practices every day after school and away games she travels with her team by bus. It's a bit more challenging making it to her games with that start time of 4:30. So fun to watch her grown and gain confidence with wverybganewverybganehee plays.
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Christmas Eve
Love these faces who fill our ordinary days and holidays with such energy, laughter and joy.
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Reindeer food
We have made reindeer food every year since these little ones joined our family...It is one of our favorite holiday traditions. Reyna and Pedro are scattering the food before we left for candlelight service....
Eutychus
A tradition in confirmation awarded for a great sermon note. Yahaira brought Eutychus home just before Christmas break. This is a picture of all the members of our family who have shared a week with Eutychus.
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Catching Santa
They promised me they were going to stay awake the entire night. They
have been discussing this all day. They had a plan to catch Santa's
arrival. They were determined.....it appears Santa caught them snoozing.
I can't wait for them to see this picture when they wake in the morning.
They made it until midnight. One of those two had been awake since 5am. They both woke me at 4 this morning. The braver of the two at the moment quickly said "I know you said no one could check their stockings under the tree until the sun woke up...but we thought you should know "He's been here!!" (I had announced on the drive home from church late last night that no one was allowed to wake me asking to open presents before the sun woke, the didn't ask to open anything they just wanted to share Santa had been here) both did go back to sleep for a couple hours perhaps they sensed it would be calmer for all if their mom slept a little bit longer.
later that morning they "found" this picture on the floor by the printer, their faces where priceless and they spoke in stuttered sentences as they tried to figure out how Santa had managed this.
They made it until midnight. One of those two had been awake since 5am. They both woke me at 4 this morning. The braver of the two at the moment quickly said "I know you said no one could check their stockings under the tree until the sun woke up...but we thought you should know "He's been here!!" (I had announced on the drive home from church late last night that no one was allowed to wake me asking to open presents before the sun woke, the didn't ask to open anything they just wanted to share Santa had been here) both did go back to sleep for a couple hours perhaps they sensed it would be calmer for all if their mom slept a little bit longer.
later that morning they "found" this picture on the floor by the printer, their faces where priceless and they spoke in stuttered sentences as they tried to figure out how Santa had managed this.
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Love your melon
My sister always find gifts that represent a good cause.
This year she gave the adult kids Love your Melon hats.
here is the story of the company:
Love Your Melon was founded in an entrepreneurship class at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota by two friends, Zach and Brian. On a mission to improve the lives of children battling cancer since October 22nd, 2012, Love Your Melon began with the simple idea of putting a hat on every child battling cancer in America.
After achieving the original goal of donating 45,000 hats— one for every child battling cancer in America — Love Your Melon set a new goal of donating one million dollars to pediatric cancer research and providing immediate support to children and their families.
Fifty percent (50%) of profit from the sale of all Love Your Melon products is given to Love Your Melon’s nonprofit partners in the fight against pediatric cancer. Our nonprofit partners work in the field of pediatric oncology, fund cancer research initiatives and provide immediate support for families of children battling cancer.
To date, we have donated over 2.5 million dollars and over 90,000 hats. Let’s write the next chapter together. Join the story.
This year she gave the adult kids Love your Melon hats.
here is the story of the company:
Love Your Melon was founded in an entrepreneurship class at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota by two friends, Zach and Brian. On a mission to improve the lives of children battling cancer since October 22nd, 2012, Love Your Melon began with the simple idea of putting a hat on every child battling cancer in America.
After achieving the original goal of donating 45,000 hats— one for every child battling cancer in America — Love Your Melon set a new goal of donating one million dollars to pediatric cancer research and providing immediate support to children and their families.
Fifty percent (50%) of profit from the sale of all Love Your Melon products is given to Love Your Melon’s nonprofit partners in the fight against pediatric cancer. Our nonprofit partners work in the field of pediatric oncology, fund cancer research initiatives and provide immediate support for families of children battling cancer.
To date, we have donated over 2.5 million dollars and over 90,000 hats. Let’s write the next chapter together. Join the story.
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