Showing posts with label Baby Beginnings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baby Beginnings. Show all posts

Monday, September 12, 2016

Clara's first piano song & her version of Creation

Clara has attended two piano lessons and worked with me once, and this is the result. She's about to start playing "real" songs, but this EIEIO is a perfect way to get her comfortable with the idea of using different fingers and using the black keys too. I couldn't figure out how to teach her without the stickers (I need to ask her teacher how she does it, but this worked for me).



And here is Clara's version of Genesis 1: Creation


Wednesday, August 26, 2015

First day of school!!! 2015-2016

Monday was a big day for entire family! Bryan had an important meeting at work, Emma started the Older Toddlers class, and Clara started Pre-K for 3 year olds and I started teaching we well!

Bryan and I did absolutely everything we could to prepare ourselves the night before, but we knew even despite talking up the "special school outfits" (aka uniforms), Clara was going to have a melt down. The precious child LOVES to pick out her own clothes. She wants to accessorize, and match and clash and wear mommy's shoes or non-matching shoes, and a hat with a bow on top. She is such a free spirit and I love that about her!  But even free spirits sometimes have a to wear a polo shirt, sadly.

We were right. It went something like this:

BUT! Mommy got her a brand new backpack with her name on it and ballerinas, which made the whole world a better place. Plus she was allowed to pick out her purple bow (I didn't care in the slightest that her bow and shoes didn't match). I asked to get a first day of school photo of HER, but she really just wanted to keep touching her pretty new backpack :)


my heart
I love that they are wearing identical smiles!
Ready to go! Sisterly support! Solidarity.
To appease Clara I took a picture of their new backpacks - ballerinas and zebra
 Once I dropped off the girls and pulled into the parking lot at my own school, I snapped this:
The first day of my 7th year of teaching! hehe

In case you were curious what my classroom looks like this year:
Most of the student desks and English wall
My nook
Drama wall
Front of the room
When I picked up the girls, Clara was so happy and just absolutely gushed about her first day of school and all of her new friends and her new teachers and her new backpack and how she was gonna change her dress ONE MINUTE after we get home :)


Emma's new teachers sent these two pictures to me during the day:
Playing outside
Painting
They told me that although Emma doesn't look happy with arts and crafts time she was only upset because they paused the music for a moment and she wanted to keep dancing and painting at the same time :)

It's been 3 days now and I can safely assure you that both girls adore their teachers and their classes. Such an answer to prayer!

I hope all of the first days went as smoothly as ours did!

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Our week in progress (including Clara's 1st dentist visit!)

On Monday we started off our week with a bang when Clara had her first dentist appointment!

We had kind of a rough morning, but thankfully she and I worked out our differences over a discussion of who lives in the water in the car on the way there, and then they had a princess page to color while we waited (1 bonus point to Dr. Matthews!)


There were two other little ladies around Clara's age waiting too, so that made it fun. They giggled, read a book together, drove the ship in the background, and then did some more coloring together.

One by one they started to get called back and Clara didn't care - she was just happy to have the purple colors all to herself. 

Then it was Clara's turn! Ms. Erika won Clara over rather quickly by letting her pick out her own new tooth brush. (Please note Clara's outfit of a dress, tennis shoes and a swim suit cover zipped up.)

Then she gave us a tour, introduced Clara to some of the other people there, showed Clara all of her cool tools and then let Clara have her very own mirror tool to see what was going on. Plus she got to wear some "wonderful Daniel Tiger glasses" to protect her eyes from the "bright hot sun light" :)

She did great while Ms. Krystal counted her teeth and cleaned them a little bit. But at one point she got spooked and needed to sit on my lap for a little while while she kept working. She let her brush about half of her teeth before she decided she did NOT like the "tickle brush" and wanted no more "strawlaberries" in her "mouf" (the tooth paste tasted like strawberries)

The hygienist said that Clara did really well for a first time visitor, especially at a 3 years old, and that her teeth looked fantastic. (Yay, the brushing is paying off!) 

We had to hang around a little while until Dr. Matthews could come and take a look, so we took silly pictures to pass the time :)

"Clara a pirate, argggggggg"
"Gig 'em, Aggies! Argggggg"
 And then when Clara started getting restless and ticked off they asked me what would be helpful, and I asked if Clara could play with some 'Elsa' gloves. Clara was ecstatic! 


She let Dr. Matthews count her teeth and take a look, and then while he talked to me she let Ms. Krystal put the fluoride coating on her teeth. They let Clara pick out a balloon (she picked orange!?!?) and a toy from the Treasure Box. And then, right before we left, she asked if she could have a little tooth brush for Baby Emma's teeth :) It was so sweet, and they let her pick one out for Emma too. 

They told us to make an appointment for about 6 months from now, and to bring Emma along. We'll see how that goes! :) 

Then I dropped Clara off at school for just a little while, and then picked both girls up and we went to play at Lulu and Papa's house for just a little while, with puzzles and books!




On Tuesday Emma really wanted her hair brushed and clipped back just like big sister :) She was SO happy with her little clip, although it was cracking me (and Bryan) up. 
Adorable!
This photo is actually from Monday at school during nap time, but they didn't send it to me until Tuesday and blogger is being a bum about letting me move it up, so it's just going to stay here out of order.
sleepy snuggles
 When I picked up the girls we did a little puzzle building. Clara was quick to explain to Emma how everything worked.

When we got home Clara was a typical 3 year old mess, upset about EVERYTHING. Ay yi yi.

But Emma wasn't, so that helped :)
"Baby cheeeeeeeese" hehe
I put on the Jungle Book hoping the songs would cheer Clara up. Between that and some "spider mans" (aka fruit snacks), it did, thank goodness.

loves her babies
hehe :)
 Clara took this selfie of herself and Emma and I love it!

Two tantruming chicas
 Then Clara would tell Emma "go night night!" and Emma would fall on the floor:

Clara reading Emma a story
night night Emma
Video:
*Coming Soon*
(When YouTube cooperates)

And Clara put on her Elsa gloves :)

Have a great rest of your week!

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Catch Up! and Emma is WALKING!

Let's remember for a moment that I was doing really well with blogging until this past week :) 
So, a catch-up! What's been going on the last 4 or 5 days?

Well....

We've played with puppies inside ...
The girls switch back and forth with their rocking chair and puppy bean bag courtesy of Lulu 
And outside...
Talking a walk
 And we've done LOTS of practicing with walking!
love this Frankenstein baby






Proof that he's still alive ;) 
VICTORY for babykind!
I've talked about Emma's love of all hats before ... but she gave me her very own private fashion show the other day. She kept taking the hat off and putting it back on, which made for some pretty awesome looks :) hehe





I don't usually take pictures of Clara at school, but I caught her reading Alice in Wonderland when I picked her up the other day and it made me smile after the play :)

Our weather has been insane. Blue and sunny and then storming and then partly cloudy and then hailing, very unpredictable. Well one of those stormy afternoons I took the girls over to Lulu's house to play hoping a change of scenery and seeing their Lulu would help :)

"Emma, take a cheese!"
Bryan met us there after work.  
loving on each other
wearing Daddy's glasses
A different day's Target trip: mommy and girls
love this
Wednesday's Gymnastics class!

Dunking the basketball

Emma causing a traffic jam

"Bowling"

Clara actually in the way during parachute time
Emma joined her.
Driving the cart down the strip center to dinner
Getting out to help
 The games are fun after dinner activities (and free since my kiddos don't know the difference :)
thinks she's a big girl

one way to do it :) 
loved her outfit this day!
working on our stencil coloring - she loves it! 
requires intense concentration  
making off with our stencil collection, haha
Then we had some friends over for dinner, cupcakes and a game night!

Jonah's birthday party was cancelled because he didn't feel well, so we sang happy birthday and he had a cupcake at our house that night.
Not a huge fan
Even less of a fan of the bath that followed smearing it all over hehe
Our favorite game: Ticket to Ride
PROOF!! I have officially been in the LEAD on a trivia game! I know - it's nuts!

Another day's fun:





Different day, lots of fun!





Another little while of sunshine!
bicycle riding with a "holemut" on her head :)

mowing the patio
 Sunny to BOOM! Grape sized hail falling from the sky
whoa mommy! 


One of the smaller hail pieces bounced on our patio
 A different day Lulu dropped by for a little while to say hi to the girls. The had a snack outside, yumm. 

Maverick foraging for scraps. 

Emma says "beebee" for her Aggie doll
Emma had her 12 month check up and shots today :(
Healthy!! 17lbs, 28" tall. Around the 12% for size, petite and perfect :)

A few other videos that got out of order and now Blogger has me all confused:



Now that you know what's going on with us, I hope you have a great night!! Sorry for the massive photo and video dump!