Year of the Horse 2014

Happy 2014!

I'm well far behind here.
January has already flown by in a blink.
Libby turns 7 tomorrow. She finally lost another tooth. First grade is going well. She's working on Subtraction skills now.
We had her birthday party on the 1st. We went painting again this year. Invited her entire class. It was really nice. Although, once again Walmart bakery saw fit to mess things up. I ordered Disney Frozen cupcakes for 10am pick-up. When I arrived at 10:30am, they weren't ready and the girl gave me attitude. Said it would take 15 mins, but she was working on something else. Complained to me that she was the only one there, as if it were my fault. Since the party started at 11am, we had to leave and Daddy went back later. #walmartfail

Libby is battling a UTI currently. I hope the antibiotic starts helping soon. Cephalexin (7.5ml, 3x/day for 10 days). Both girls had colds about 2 weeks ago and have lingering coughs. Gotta love winter...

Our weather has been a mixed bag with lots of snow recently.

Tomorrow is O's first grade music concert, "Cantamos Americanos." She's wearing a dress that my Mother-in-law got her in Mexico.

Little sis is loving preschool. She loves "shining" and getting gold stars for good behavior in school. They started doing show & tell recently and she was so happy to tell me that "my teacher said I did it perfectly." :)

December 2013 - really???

This year just seems to be disappearing!

The girls & I went to MD for Thanksgiving. Our trip got cut short by a day as bad weather in Dallas cancelled our original outbound flight. But we had a great time. It was cold & raining the first few days, but we went shopping and to the B&O Railroad Museum. The girls are such good travelers.

I've been busy with my business and the girls & Daddy have been really supportive. It's nice to be able to show the girls that Mommies work, too.

Libby is doing really well in Math. I'm proud of her progress. I think we could do more work with Literacy but I'm waiting to hear from her teacher on how to proceed. She is doing great with sight words and reads well at home, but I don't see her spelling and sounding out of words improving. She loves to make "books" everyday though. She folds a sheet of paper in half and draws pictures to represent the book.

Halloween 2012

Libby was a Winx fairy this year and Sabrina took a turn in the Raggedy Anne costume.

The class had a Halloween party in the morning, including games of pin the spider on the web and pumpkin bowling. Sabrina and I got to go up to school for the party and went back up to have lunch later with Olivia.  After school, Libby had ballet. Then we came home for a quick bite to eat before going out to trick-or-treat. I took the girls out while Daddy stayed home to pass out candy. The girls did really well and we were lucky to have some warmer weather for the night.

New library books:
"If I were an Ant" by Amy Moses
"A Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett, adapted by Deborah Hautzig ("This book seemed familiar to me, mama." It should be. We read "A Little Princess"- a longer version.)
"Madeline and the Gypsies"by Ludwig Bemelmans
"A Frog in the Bog" by Karma Wilson

Rain, rain

A rainy and much cooler day today! Poor Libby had to drag her Getting to Know You bag in to school in the rain. I hope she managed ok. We didn't send the heart-shaped box to save on some weight. We wrote a nice page for the journal, sharing her fave colors (blue & violet, currently), fave movie (Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale), and her fave activities (swimming, art, travel, ballet)