revisit: Luau

Sydney had a repeat of her 4th birthday party: A winter luau at the community center. It's really easy to rent rooms there and really reasonably priced per hour! You just have to set everything up and clean it up of course. She had a ball and said that she's going to have a luau party every year:) Of course, now that the guests were 5 and 6 , and there weren't as many of them, we could do more structured things so they weren't running around like crazy people like at her 4th b-day party!

Nana (who shares Sydney's birthday) helped set up the party table...The excited girl getting ready for her friends to arrive... Making Gummisaver and straw lei's...Making ocean bottles with oil, water, food coloring, a little soap, and come confetti...Playing Luau Bingo...Her Luau cake...

Happy Birthday 6 year old!

Let the chaos begin..!!!

All this boy needs is a mirror and Unc Pill's hat and he's set! Although Chase LOVED the Bingo markers. It was all over him by the end of the day!

revisit: tea party

I thought I would go back and give the girls' birthdays a little more attention. They were pretty darn fun!
Mollie's was a tea party at the community center. She had 8 little girls and then we had 3 bigger girls who are Sydney's age be "helpers" and served tea, cupcakes, helped with dress-up, etc. They were great! And really seemed to enjoy it.

The party got started with a little dressing up... Chase came really dressed up already! So handsome!
Our craft was putting polka dot and flower stickers on plastic tea cups to decorate them... We read a Fancy Nancy tea party book...

Chase ran around looking cute! The kids had sandwiches, fruit and cheese mini-kabobs, and snack mix along with lemonade that they kept pouring...and pouring...and pouring...

Here are the big girl helpers!Here are the littler girls....Mollie said, "I love my birthday!"

Then she crashed...with her new Princess Snuggie from James and Michele...

Why I suck at blogging

We had a great Christmas! I hope you did....if I have any readers left:0

Sydney is 6! She had her birthday on the 16th. It's so hard to believe I have a 6 year old. I'm not that old. I don't feel old enough to have a 6 year old!!!
She had a repeat of her 4th birthday party and we did a Luau at the community center. I'll get some pics up from my other laptop.

I think one reason I suck at blogging lately is b/c my main laptop that stays plugged in in my office has no battery life. So I can't come hang out in front of the TV with my hubby and post pictures. I don't know why I think I should always post pictures. I did update a few months of the Shutterfly site:) Still behind though!

I got Mollie all registered for preschool next year. That was preoccupying (how do you spell that?) my time time/mind for a little while. I couldn't decide which class to want. Which is a good problem that our preschool actually offers enough options to want. Unlike the Catholic preschool who didn't give a crap. But anyway, Lutheran is pretty close and we're VERY happy there. Next school year she will go 5 days from 9-12:30 in a transitional K class. I couldn't decide whether to put her in a regular 4 year old class or transition (which her b-day qualifies her for). I really like how this year all of her class turned 4 by Christmas. They are much more on an even playing field developmentally. And her teachers recommended transition so we did that. And can I tell you how weird it is to have to even register for preschool almost 8 months in advance? Dumb.

Sydney's doing well in school. She has had some talking issues, but apparently is doing a lot better now. I'm proud of her. Sydney's just more in it for the socialization, haha. I can tell. And that's fine. I'm not asking her to be admitted to Harvard at the end of the year. She has lots of time for that. Right now she's more worried about ear rings and hair and toys.

Off to finish watching Cougartown!