7 years old! SERIOUSLY??????

 This Princess is 7 Years Old.  I still don't know how this happened.  Sure logically you would say well she was born and lived 7 years.  However, it doesn't seem like 7 years ago this beautiful girl was born and placed in my arms.  I still remember holding her and refusing to send her to the nursery.  I just fell in love with her right then and there she was perfect in every way.  I waited 4 years for her.  I had a miscarriage and did infertility treatments and cried each Mother's Day till she came and made me a Mom.  She is the best big sister to her siblings and the best oldest child.  She is smart and talented.  She is kind and loyal.  I am lucky to be her Mom.

 For her birthday this year she wanted to have a party with all her girl friends from school and of coarse her best friend from next door.  She wanted to have a Frozen theme.  Some of the activities we did was make a bracelet with ice colored beads.  We made snow with cornstarch, oil and glitter.  We made Olaf with Graham Crackers, icing, pretzels, and candy.  We planned to play Pin the nose on Olaf.  But we ran out of time.  Funny thing last time she had a party 2 years ago I didn't plan enough and this time I planned too much.  We had white cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and little candy snowflakes on top.  Which we did at the last minute and sent a cupcake home with the girls.  Like I said I planned too much this time.  But it seemed like they had fun.  We decorated with Snowflakes and printed out pictures from Frozen and put them up on the wall.  We took all the Christmas stuff down except the tree and the white lights and anything icicle related.  She woke up to a winter wonderland and loved it.

 Some pictures after the party with her best friend next door.

 

 On her birthday we left the decorations up and had Grandma and Grandpa come for dinner.  She had a chocolate cake with chocolate cream cheese frosting. She took some pictures with her brother.

 

 Grandma and Grandpa gave her a outfit for her American girl doll they gave her for Christmas.

 At the end of the night they climbed on daddy and he tried to give them piggy back rides.

 This little girl grabbed the babies she got at Christmas and a play cup and pretended to drink from it while also giving her babies a drink from it as well.  I thought it was cute.  One baby was from us and the other was from Grandma and Grandpa.

KIndergarten Graduation

She graduated from Kindergarten with Flying Colors.  She is testing a year ahead and loves to learn.  She had so much fun this last year making friends and pushes herself to learn constantly.  My favorite part of the program was when she sang about being mail and when she said sang I want to mail myself to you she would look directly at me and point.  It melted my heart and I couldn't help being proud that she is my daughter.  I would mail myself to her as well.  Enjoy the pictures and video.

Marching in with all the Pomp and Circumstance.

Sitting in her place ready to sing.

 

Here she is with her Kindergarten Teacher, who will also be her First grade teacher as well.

Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer......

Oh what do you do in the wintertime.....

3 Bears

Mail my self to you....

Spring Dance Recital 2012

So the same day as my nieces graduation we also had my daughters dance recital.  So when I was getting my daughter ready for preschool I curled her hair how she would need it for the recital and hoped and prayed that it would stay all day.  I also hair sprayed that hair like crazy.  Looking at it I think it did well.  Luckily she does not have hair like me that when I was her age if you curled my hair it would all fall within minutes.  The only thing that really worked was my mom would braid my hair in lots of little braids before bed and take them out in the morning to have the crimped hair look for pictures. Then I took her to Preschool and my husband picked her up when he got off work early and we headed to the graduation.  Then after Graduation we headed to the Dance Recital stopping only at a Subway to get dinner.  Ironically Grandma and Grandpa by some sheer chance pulled up at the same Subway and we got to eat a little with them before we had to run to get our daughter to the recital.  She did awesome.  You can tell she knew some things a little too well and got a little rushed in The Twist and well she loved dancing to Hey Mickey and sings it everyday since.  Enjoy the pics and video.

 Couple Recital pictures taken at the end of the recital

The Twist

Hey Mickey

 The finally although it is hard to see her.  She is in the second row back on the right middle of screen.  Every now and then you see her head bob up into view.

5 years Old

My Little Girl who would tell you she is no longer little turned 5 last month. She is growing up so fast. Having a birthday around Christmas I try to make sure that her day is always special. I haven't had a lot of energy lately so this year we got an Ice Cream cake which she was excited to pick out for herself. And we ordered pizza. My Sister came up with her family for my daughter birthday and so did Grandma and Grandpa. I am actually kicking myself for not getting pictures of her with them. I am not doing so good at picture taking at all right now.

Here she is with her brother who insists on helping her blow out the candles. She is always so sweet with him and will encourage him to be involved.

Gift from my sister and her family

Gift from Grandparents.

She also got her first friend party this year. She had an all girl party with friends from the ward. We started with a lunch of pizza, bread sticks and soda.

This was amusing. We told the girls they would get to decorate their own goody bags and they jumped up and down with excitement. I am glad I decided to let them do that and keep it cheep by using what I had rather than give then boring pre-made bags. After they were done we filled their bags with little party favors only girls could love.

Then they got to play pin the hair on Rapunzel. I stayed up late the night before drawing this and one braid. Then I had my husband get copies of the braid for each girl. Here is bald Rapunzel.
This is how she looked when the girls got done with her.
After everyone left she wanted a picture of her with the balloons that were left. We let each girl take a balloon home. Ya we had a lot. But what is a party without balloons.
Now how do I get her to stop growing up........

Christmas Dance Recital 2011

y little girl is starting to not be so little anymore. I notice something this year in her growth from previous recitals that I am amazed that she is the same girl. She loves dance so much and has so much fun. She hardly needed any help from the teacher to remember her dance moves and as always she is a ham. This year she danced to "I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus" and this year they had a nutcracker number for each class. Her class got to be the Mouse King. I am only downloading the recital this year if anyone misses the rehearsal let me know and I will send you those videos. She remembered most the dance this year so you wont need to see the rehearsal to know what it was supposed to look like.

Here she is at Rehearsal in her Mouse King Costume.

Here she is at the recital in her Recital Costume.

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus Dance

Mouse King Nutcracker Dance

First Day of Dance

Dance started a few weeks ago and life is good. She loves taking this time to learn how to dance. Plus she loves getting dressed up each week for it.

Fun Videos of the kids Playing

Truly these are more of the mommy/daddy variety of exciting.

Here is our son playing with his sippy friends, Buzz and Woody. Who needs dolls when you have sippy cups with such cool tops!


Here is our little girl singing one of her random made up songs.

Swim Lessons 2011

This is from the first two weeks of swim lessons this summer. I loved the teacher that worked with her here and the second two weeks. The last teacher she had swim lesson from I wasn't too impressed with. She loved being able to go to swim lessons and learn to be safe in the water. This was only the preschool levels so she didn't learn to swim yet. She was going to have lessons to start helping her learn to swim but she broke her arm and was in a cast so unfortunately she wasn't able to start that this year.



Three little monkey's dancing on the wall.....

So and so jumped in and splashed us all!


Soooo cold getting out of the water.

Doing better in her towel.

Preschool Graduation 2011

She graduated from her first year of preschool. She actually was supposed to be in the class a year younger but her wonderful teacher allowed us to put her into the kindergarten ready year. Now you may ask why would we put her in that class. Well it all came down to her speech issues. She needed as much exposure to sounds and words as possible and the kindergarten year focuses more on that. Being her mom she really didn't want to work with me. But in Talking time (where she focused solely on speech) the said she was probably their most improved. She is so much clearer and I thank her preschool teacher as well as her talking time therapists for that. She has grown so much and I am so proud of her. She can count to 30 on her own minus 1 or 2 numbers, knows her alphabet, writes her own name, knows colors and shapes, some Chinese, and even recognizes some sight words.

My daughter and her teacher!

For Graduation they did "The Little Red Hen" and she was a Steel Eyed Fox. She rocked it!

Last and only time she got to have a class in school with her best friend next door.

And Last but not least the play they put on for your viewing pleasure. Condensed into songs and special highlights. It is 7 minutes long and I hope that you will find it cute as well. You can tell when she knew a song really well. She was generally the loudest. :-)