Open House

We had our first open house last night... She was so excited to introduce me and the triplets o her friends, show us her classoom and her work. She has a certain place she sits everyday, with her two besties from school sitting right beside her. Pictured above is G with her friend Miss M. She was very proud of all her accomplishments around the classroom. She's even growing a pumpkin!! Too Cute.

Pumpkin Time

Today was a wonderFULL day, little G went on her first fieldtrip (which also means she had her first bus ride) to our local pumpkin patch. She had such a blast with her school besties. They got to play bean bag toss, bowling, and goofy golf. On top of all that they also had a tatoo pickin, story time, and a hay ride, which for all you parents out there this one made even me a little woozy, the driver was all over the place. So it was a fantastic day. Afterwards we were invited on a playdate, for lunch with her school besties, Miss M and Miss A. They had such a good time. This was our first get together, outside of school, with them and they had a great time. Hopefully more of that to come.

SO FAR..... I'm a little tired

Really, it did felt like I slept in because I normally get up a little before 5 am. So, after getting my extra two hours of sleep, I made the kids their breakfast and started getting them to their soccer uniforms. I delayed getting their shin-guards on until right before we headed out, that way, they could play a little longer. After around an hour of playing in G's room, we headed out... so far so good.... The soccer game went fairly well too, Yay! After soccer we picked up Jess (my sis) and Little Miss A (my niece) and headed to P'cola, to the OktoberFest thrown by my kids' (H, L & S) parents. The ride to Pensacola was good; in fact, we had a great time at the Oktoberfest too! We saw a fairly good magic show (although a little long, 45-55 minutes as a clown was showing off his skills). Then, we had some artistic face painting done. We joined in a cakewalk (which S informed me that he thought it was called a "cape walk" and he would be winning a cape instead of a take home cake). The kids also helped dunk people into the dunking booth (by pushing the button, instead of throwing the ball). In addition, all the girls loved going down the huge, giant slide over and over again.
The time-telling sign that it was time to go was when within a three (3) minute time span all of the kids (H, L & S) had their own individual meltdowns (each one of the kids was unaware of the other kids' spells ). My child proceeded to have one in the car shortly thereafter and well let's just say I AM POOPED. Not only did we then have a hour an a half drive home still, but then once we got home, we went to my grandmother's house for a birthday party for my 3 year old nephew Mr. H. and, man, do I feel like I just ran a marathon (although not speaking from experience here or anything)!I've also just finished restoring my computer due to a bug (I believe) we downloaded from the site LimeWire. I highly recommend music listeners not use this site; no matter how wonderful it sounds. Since we downloaded it to our computer last month, everything has been shutting down randomly and then rebooting, amongst other things. Again, I really do not recommend it. I hope that that was the answer to all my problems. We just have really bad luck with computers it seems. Speaking of computers, I tried my best to wipe out our old one last night to make it accommodating for the kids this weekend. So far so good too! I was not able to take it to a restore point, but I was able to clean out most of the memory (which as per my conversation with our computer guy, the memory, or lack thereof was one of the main factors in the reasons behind it being a terrible computer). But, as far as G is concerned, she is now the proud owner of a semi-fully functional computer to play her "educational" games (Shush! Don't tell her that they are good for her!), at her will, with mommy and daddy's permission of course.

So I have a busy weekend ahead on me...

This coming weekend I am keeping the triplets, and boy do we have a full weekend coming up. From hair cuts, and soccer games to birthday parties and Oktober Fest. I am roaring to go. Hopefully I have many photos to show from this coming weekend.

~Simona

Tea Party for Princesses

What a fantastic party! She had so much fun with all of her friends. When everyone arrived, first, they had their photo taken with the birthday girl; followed by a party serving Mango tea, chocolate milk, cucumber sandwiches, peanut butter sandwiches, & potato salad. Then, we headed out of the room (while our helpers, IE the moms, brought out the desserts) to play pin the spout on the teapot (such a hit) while singing "I'm a little teapot short and spout...". When we returned to the tearoom, we sang the traditional song to Miss G, and then we all had a birthday cake to blow out the candles on. Afterwards, while snacking on lemon and raspberry tarts, mini cakes and mini lemon bars, the entire group made princess necklaces and color their own princess puzzles. The finale was Miss G opening her presents.

Thanks for all who came and all the moms who helped out. ~Simona

Miss G's Birthdays

She had such a great birthday this year, in the end I was trying to keep it small but it ended up being 6 celebrations: first at school, the that day with mommy and daddy out to lunch, then that evening with the triplets I watch ( b/c Mr S wasn't invited to the princess tea party due to the fact that he is a boy, so I promised him a little celebration at their house on Miss G's real birthdate) then we had the patry with all the princesses, followed by a party with hubby's family, then a party with my family at my grandmothers...Phew... many parties later and I think I have decided she's caught up until her 10 th birthday... So see you guys in 5 years...

Tour Thru the Scotland Highlands

We had such a wonderful time in Scotland. We will always try to do the same kind of tours on any other overseas trips from now on. It really allowed for us to be able to go to many places in a short amount of time. My mom( http://www.ytbtravel.com/trelasonlinetravelagency )went through the hard work of setting everything up and making sure nothing was left out. It really helps that she is a travel agent and she was also there with us, so everything was perfect. We were able to go thru most of the Northern Highlands, stopping in Taynuilt, Portree, Inverness and Edinburgh for the over nights.

I have almost 3000 photos from our trip but I just fell in love with these.... More to come later...

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.