I love that toothless grin and can’t believe she is already 6.  Where did my little round kewpie doll go?…her sassy self is going to give us a run for our money.

Big lunch packing, bus riding, homework doing, all day school kids.

Did I mention she is not a morning person.

It was followed up by an ice cream social where the kids had their choice of  a crazy amount of toppings.  Beauty signed us up for crushed oreos and could not figure out why I was buying a package of regular oreos at the store.  She was amazed that I could make them into crushed oreos on my own.

She couldn’t wait for school so she could show her teacher and take home the “tooth-book”– a classroom book with a a cute brown bear, brown bear inspired rhyme..

“Tooth Fairy, Tooth Fairy what do you see, I see ___________’s tooth smiling at me”  You fill in the blank with your name and then attach a picture.

But before I got the picture printed and in the book Beauty lost another one, so we had 2 entries.

Look at those droopy little eyes–we are so not morning people. We get up early but are not functional till after 8:30am …

This photo was taken before school on the morning of C’s big Betsy Ross presentation.  They all had to choose a famous American to research and do a speech about.  C choose Betsy Ross because well…she must be his great great great great grandmother of course.. after-all we have the same last name. It made him really excited to do the research so I went along with his assumption.  He had to bring a prop for his presentation and I suggested that I could help him sew his own flag, but like most boys and men it was only a good prop if it included food   C mixed the cake batter himself (spice cake, his pick) I baked it and he rolled out and cut the fondant himself.  I did the assembly (icing the cake with cream cheese frosting then applying the fondant).

There were lots of oohs and aahs from his classmates and C had a big proud grin on his face..totally worth it!

Oh yeah his speech was great too.  I was very proud of him. The video is hard to hear.  All the kids were were stationed around the room and the parents rotated from student to student.  All those speeches going on at once made for tough video recording,  but the bit at the beginning where he reveals his cake needs no audio …the look on his face was amazing!

iPod picture of C’s Betsy Ross portrait out in the hall on the second grade timeline:

One more cake pic

They also sang some cute songs and did some dances for all of us….here is my first try at an animoto video check it out!

They are so fun, the kids are excited.  I am excited.

The new year is full of promise!

I love to look back at the year before and think how grown up they looked to me then, and how little they look to me now.

C was the only one off today, Beauty doesn’t start Kindergarten till Friday.

I was proud of how independent he seemed, excited but not scared of what was waiting for him in 2nd Grade.

These are C’s soccer portraits.

He has been on the same  team for 2 seasons now.

They are called the Pirates, and there are some really great kids on this team.

A good team atmosphere makes all the difference – win or lose.