My Baby Sister

I can't even believe she is in Middle School now! Boy does the time fly!!!

Congrats Ash!

G's last Day of Kindergarten

Last Day

for friends from Liza Jackson

for Mrs. James

for getting on and off the bus at Mama's

for going to school where her Aunt Ashleigh attends with her

for riding the bus with Aunt Ashleigh

for going to school in Fl

for going down the yellow hall to class

Last day with Travis, Coleman, Sarah, Holla & Aleah in the background.
Last day with Travis , Mikayla, Coleman, Zionna, Sarah, Layla, Holla and beside G is Sophia. Again Aleah in the background.

Last day with Travis and Coleman(as you can see they loved her, Coleman loved my camera more)

Last day with Mikayla

Last day with Zionna

Some Favorites:

pink and blue and red

chicken nuggets with ketchup

Sarah was her favorite friend in class

the mean girl on the bus, Zandrea was her best friend by the end of the year

play dough was her favorite thing to do at school

recess was awesome

you learned your phone number and address

you had a chore chart to complete once you got home from school: it had shower, hang up towel get dressed, put dirty clothes away, get out folder and start homework

you loved your bus ride
your favorite thing to do after school was go swimming with either Ashleigh or hunter

your favorite breakfast was pop tarts and cereal

you favorite lunch at school was hamburgers with ketchup

favorite snack at school was cookies

100Th day of school was great

loved being a car rider too!

thanksgiving celebration was fun

when you grow up you want to be a police officer, b/c police officers shoot with guns and have hand cuffs and mommy will be your nanny for you 3 kids

you loved making projects at school like gingerbread men and making puppets in art

in Spanish you learned numbers & colors and how to speak in Spanish : adios-goodbye, Ola-hello,

things that were popular : silly bands(shaped rubber bands that you wear on your wrist like a bracelet that you traded for other ones at school and on the bus)

your favorite song right now is all the wonderful horses(the yodeling christian CD)

some things you like to do when you are bored go outside to play, eat food, playing the computer and watching cartoon, and going swimming

you go to bed 800 and wake up at 700 for school

the school bus comes at 800, school starts at 830 & ends at 300, you get off the bus at 400

you collect pencils, silly bands, rocks, bookmarks

you love cats and dogs

your favorite outfit is the light pink and grey dress with hearts and your long jean skirt with your purple little pets shop shirt
every time I have asked you a question tonight you have responded with ....that's a good question... hahaha

Miss G's Kindergarten Celebration

What an exciting year!! Miss G has gone from being able to write mommy, daddy, a couple of the kids from last years names and her own to being able to sound out the words and partially read. She has had an excellent year in spelling and math. Given our new circumstances and everything she has pressed on and done so well. We only managed to miss school the days we went to visit Jonathan during his basic training graduation in March. We are going to miss our Liza Jackson friends and staff(okay maybe I'll be missing them, I have only dreamed of my children going to this school since it opened~I practically had a party when I found out last spring she was accepted). Esp Mrs James who is also moving on to another school because of the military.

Miss G's Kindergarten Performance

Asop's Fables

She has a couple of videos from her performance as well that I am going to try and post*edited to say...see video below***.

Cindy, Mama, Dad, Ashliegh, Mom, Jackie, and Grandma Janie ~Thanks for coming tonight!

G's field trip with Gramma

Literacy Day~ Fancy Nancy

What fun !! Wed we spent some time going through her closet picking out stuff to wear to school for Literacy Day on Fri. I would hold up items and she'd approve them, most everything I picked out was to her standards but there were a few items that according to Miss G, weren't "Fancy enough" . Ha! Too funny. In the end she wore her fancy Nancy ballet slippers and fancy Nancy purse that she got as a Christmas present last year, a fancy "itchy" boa wrapped around her waist and a crown with antenna over her curled hair. She had on several pieces of "jewelry" and her sun glasses. If any of you have girls out there you have got to check out the books.....
Here's a excerpt from Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy... I am ecstatic. (That's a fancy word for happy.) We're going to get a puppy-a real one......
She always dresses fabulously and says unique words.

Open House ~ Ms.James Class

We had such a tight shift on Tuesday. We managed to squeeze everything in, including open house, a parent teacher conference, and stopping for ice cream at Dairy Queen afterwards. I think we might make ice cream a tradition for all open house evenings.

She was so proud of her art work hanging out in the entrance to the school.

They have a puppet area in her class room.

School Time

As you can see my baby started Kindergarten last monday. Doesn't she look excited!!! Here you can see her on the Cat bus, on her way to school . Further down you also see me at her school walking her to class on her first day too! She wanted me and daddy to meet her there to make sure she made it to her classroom (she was a little uncertain if she could remember where it was)

This is her before school waiting in the driveway for the bus. We did alot to waste time that morning(since her bus was 1/2 a hour late), so you'll see her posing , playing 'rock paper sissors" with daddy, and then her getting on the bus.

She informed me that evening that the best part of her day was riding the bus. She absolutely loved it. She also let me know that I no longer need to follow her and then walk her to class, she was confident that she knew where she was going and even if she did get lost her teacher would be sticking her head out into the hallway to make sure she'd make it to class. So I feel demoted some how. *pout pout pout* I guess I'll get over it. She did make sure to ask me what I was now doing with my days since she was now at school all day... Made me feel good to know she noticed i'm all alone now.

Stoked that Summer & my 60+ hrs are OVER!!

Yep sad huh? those are my summer hours. Being a nanny, a mom & a wife(amongst many other things) I rarely had time this summer for anything aside from working. I spent this past weekend in total surprise that I could actually function past 9:00pm, yea not very late but normally by 8:30 I am a zombie of drool and slurring words. I literally feel like I am not sober at these "late" hours. This past weekend I let one of my girlfriends talk me into letting her have a "jewelry party" here at my house, I couldn't believe I said yes. Not that I'm not a very giving and sharing person, but I really wanted to join in on the fun & I really didn't think I'd be able to do that since the kids I watch didn't officially start school until Monday... Well here comes Saturday night...Normally I would have spent at lest all day and the day before "super cleaning" but I just wasn't feeling up to it, so instead I just picked up, swept and then spent most of Saturday morning relaxing. THANKYOU for me not feeling like it, b/c when 11:00pm came and went and the "party" was still in full swing, I was actually still in full swing too!!! YAY! One of my girlfriends actually noticed and thanked me for not kicking them out yet. They ended up leaving at about 11:50 and I was still going, I finished cleaning up and still stayed up to read a few chapters. I love when "summer" ends. I am so glad that I can stay up past 8:30 and not get picked on for not making sense when I talk, b/c I am still "there". Happy End Of The Summer To ME!!!

Miss G's Pre-K Pajama Day

Little Miss G was very excited today, for it was her first pajama day at school... she picked out a new pair that she just recently got for her birthday from her good friend Lucy.... She also would not let me take the photos with being able to also show off her curious george coloring book of which she is currently working on a page.