2nd Grade

Today my sweet Leah started 2nd grade. Hard to believe! She loves her teacher and was so excited to start school today!

Her lovely teacher...Mrs. Bracken.

Remember this how distraught this girl was last year? This year, Carly doesn't seem to mind a bit.

Leah we hope you have an amazing school year!!

7

Wow! It's been a loooooong time since I've posted! So today, my sweet, adorable and loving Leah turns 7! So hard to believe! She is an amazing girl and I am blessed to be called her mama! She is loving, kind, beautiful and loves to care and think of others! She ADORES her little sister (most of the time). God has certainly blessed us!

I would like to thank Chick-Fil-A for sponsoring breakfast, Krispy Kreme for her school birthday treat, Subway for lunch and Bob Evans for dinner! A few of her favorite things for her 7th birthday!

So to my sweet Leah - May your heart always be focused on the Lord. May you always know you are loved and treasured. You are beautiful in every way and created perfectly! Thank you for 7 wonderful years! You may stop growing now!!

I LOVE YOU! Happy, happy birthday my sweet girl!

School Picture Day

Leah wanted curls for picture day today. What a beautiful girl we are blessed with!

Monkey see, Monkey do

If you want curls, I want them too!

Our cute Carly-girl!

1st Grade

Leah started 1st Grade today! Hard to believe that she will be in school all day, every day now. It helps that we love, love, love her new teacher!!

However, Carly is already having Sister withdrawal. This is her just moments after leaving Leah at school. Good thing she starts preschool in a couple of weeks!

She's my little Minnie Mouse...

Way back in June, Leah had her dance recital. A cute little jazz routine to "Minnie's YooHoo". Here's our little Minnie Mouse.

Leah and Papa

Leah and her teacher, Miss Vanessa

I am so pround of you my little dancer! May you always dance freely like no one is watching!

Wacky Wednesday

I really need to start updating the blog more. We have tons going on and lots of funny stories from both the girls.

But today and every Wednesday for the next month are going to be extra wacky - as in we are so busy. So busy shuttling Leah to her various and numerous Wednesday activities.

Here is a "normal" Weds for the girl:

1. school

2. daisy scouts (right after school)

3. home for a quick dinner

4. soccer practice

5. AWANA

6. home to unwind and bed

What busy days Wednesdays are going to be through October.

But who could resist shuttling this precious one around?

Oil Pastels

So as Leah was coloring today, she said, "Oh look these are oil pastels." Which promptly stopped me in the midst of working to look over at her. How in the world does she know what oil pastels are? I guess she is paying attention in art class.

Dance recital 2009

Here are some pictures from Leah's first dance recital. Her class did a tap routine to "I'm a Big Kid Now." Not only did she learn tap, but she also learned ballet and tumbling. Two of Leah's favorite friends, Ava and Phoebe, were in her class too. It was such a fun year of dance!

The Tooth Fairy

Well, Leah had her first visit from the Tooth Fairy. We gently tucked her first tooth into her Tooth Fairy pillow and anticipated the arrival of the T.F.. BTW, the first tooth she lost was her very first baby tooth. Let's pause while I dry my eyes. It's too fast I tell you, too fast! Okay, back to the tale of the Tooth Fairy. The T.F. pillow came with a sweet story about how the T.F. came to be and how she takes each child's tooth and turns it into a star while leaving a coin in place of the tooth because she was taking something that wasn't hers and wanted to leave something in its place. Sweet, right? When Leah awoke this morning, the T.F. left her five gold coins (the $1 coins). Now she wants to stay up super late tonight to find her tooth-star in the sky. She says it's going to be the littlest one. Let's hope for a star-filled night tonight!

4:11am July 15, 2009

This is the exact time Leah lost her first tooth! She woke up due to a bad dream about a fox. When she wakes up from a bad dream, she likes to tell you, in detail, about it. While she was telling me about her fox dream, she stopped and asked, "Want to feel how wiggly my tooth is?" As I went to see that wiggly tooth, she pushed it with her tongue and out it came. Total excitement because now the tooth fairy would come.

In stores...

So as Leah and I were practicing our verses today (Psalm 136), I was having her repeat "His love endures forever" after I read the first part of the verse.

Here's how it went:

Me - Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good.
Leah - His love in stores forever.

5 things Leah wants to be when she grows up

1. Dentist
2. Nurse (who gives shots)
3. Fashion Designer (for jeans esp.)
4. Mom
5. Teacher

BTW

Should I be worried when Leah is quoting lines from Camp Rock?

Her favorite line is...

BTW, your lip gloss is soooo not glossy anymore.

A Child's Prayer

I'm trying to type this as Leah is saying it...my comments in parenthesis.

Dear Lord,

Please hear my sister. (as she's groaning to settle in to sleep at 6pm - yes that's her bedtime)
Please help my mother to be kind, not jealous, to never punish me (there's was more I just couldn't type it fast enough before she moved on to the next phase of prayer)
And I really don't want a brother or another sister because I already have one who is sweet and loving and kind. Thank you Lord! (and again there was more, something like one sister being enough)

**Leah started VBS today and I think it must have evoked the little prayer warrior inside of her.**

Cock-a-doodle-doo

How do you wake up in the morning? Or what wakes you up in the morning? Mostly the alarm clock helps to rouse my sleepy body but on occassion Leah becomes the alarm clock.

Here's what the Leah alarm clock likes to say...

wakey-wakey, eggs and bakey
Mama, Papa, I need your looooving
Cock-a-doodle-oink-oink

at the firestation...

According to Leah, here's what the firemen do at the firestation:

1. Wash their trucks
2. Rescue cats from trees
3. put water on fires

About sums it up.

Pinecones and Pineapples

Leah brought home a pinecone for me tonight after returning from the park with Papa. She was so excited about it and wants to plant it tomorrow so we can grow some pineapples. We tried several times to tell her that it would be a pine tree not a pineapple but she's determined it will produce pineapples.

Is there a Starbucks in Heaven?

This was a conversation Leah and I had just before her bedtime time and after she spent a few hours with her Grams.

Mama: I really missed you today.
Leah: I missed you more than you missed me. I wonder if God missed me today?
Mama: Well, God is always with you.
Leah: Well, what if He had to get coffee?

Leah's 4th Birthday

Here are some pics from Leah's 4th birthday...which was in February! Better late than never right?


Leah with her presents




Leah with Snow White (love Leah's face here!)



The cake...and yes, I made it!



Leah swiping some frosting...I think this was after her party. And yes she is dressed up as snow white. We had a Princess Tea party and all her adorable friends came dressed as princess'. I have to find those pics.

Leah's 1st pot of "coffee". Yep, all chocolate. The girl loves her chocolate!

Easter

Just a few quick pics of Easter. Carly - so precious! Leah LOVES pigs and her very best friend gave her the all-things-pigs Easter basket. (her mom, Miss Kristy had a lot of fun pig hunting.)

Carly's 1st Easter (She's so precious!)

from the Easter Bunny

Leah's pig basket (so cute!)

Leah's pig Easter basket chair

Leah and the bunnies