Carolyn recently joined Girl Scouts – as a second grader, she’s a Brownie. At her very first meeting, her name was drawn to bring Brownie the Bear home for a two-week visit. Brownie leaves to visit someone else’s house tonight, so we thought we’d take a couple of pictures so we could remember her!
We had a fun and busy day today! I didn’t realize that the Primary school parade would be going on right as I arrived to deliver treats for the class party, so Anna and I wound up being able to watch all the kids in their fabulous costumes. Turns out there were two mummies in Carolyn’s class, but she was pretty easy to pick out!
Then we dashed home, went for a quick piano lesson, and dashed back home to await pizza and friends for trick-or-treating! We had a good time walking around the neighborhood with Joey & Nikki, and got much farther than we’ve ever gone by ourselves…which translated to a lot of candy!
Beware the mummy Carolyn!
Anna wore her dog costume to library story time today:
And both girls dressed up for dance class this afternoon. Since their “real” costumes were either too hot or not done yet, we went simple and cool!
Carolyn was a cute black cat:
And Anna was a ballerina bunny:
Dear Carolyn,
Today you are 7! It’s so hard to believe that – I know I say it every year, but I don’t have the slightest idea where the last year has gone…
It being Monday, you went to school today. Of course! And Anna and I brought cupcakes later for you to share. You created a fabulous poster of your favorite things to share with the class while you were in the “spotlight” during morning meeting. One of your teachers played guitar while the class sang “Happy Birthday” in Spanish, and then the “Nursury Rhyme Song”. What a wonderful way to celebrate at school!
After school you had your first piano lesson since school started. And then it was off to Denny’s for “breakfast for dinner”. Your choice, of course!
We wrapped up the evening with presents. Anna gave you a black Webkinz cat, and we gave you your very first musical instrument all your own: a 3/4 size steel string guitar. You are very excited to start learning how to play!
Let’s see…little factoids about your life right now… You still haven’t lost any teeth, but your two bottom middle teeth are so wiggly they can’t possibly hang on for too much longer! You love Phineas and Ferb, Inspector Gadget, every book you can get your hands on, playing computer, trying out musical instruments (harmonica is a current favorite) and helping cook things.
You are growing up and becoming a wonderful person, and I’m so excited to see what this next year brings!
Love, Mommy
Today we had a birthday party for Carolyn at a bowling alley. What fun!
We only had to bring the birthday child and a cake. Or, in this case, cupcakes.
I was heavily inspired by these twobowling cupcake projects. And honestly, this was probably the easiest birthday “cake” I’ve ever made. Cupcakes, piped swirls of icing, and fondant decor. There was so little work and they turned out so cute!
Everyone seemed to have a great time! The fancy shoes on the slippery floor were an especially huge hit. As were the “lightsaber” battles with the glow stick necklaces we gave out…
Neither of my children have bowled very much – actually, this might have been Anna’s very first time. Luckily, they were far more interested in throwing the ball down the lane than their scores!
I would definitely do a bowling party again. It’s by far one of the easiest birthday parties we’ve had for either child. Carolyn was absolutely thrilled with it!
This is our first experience with daily homework: spelling lists. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday have pretty normal assignments. Thursday is a more open-ended assignment, where we have to, as a family, come up with a “creative” way to use & practice the words. We knew it would be tough, since we are so new at this, but we realized that if we put our heads together and thought about it, we could figure something out!
Halloween is just two weeks away, so we needed to get some pumpkins!
We headed to a local farm market and parked in what must have been the last space available – everyone had the same idea for this drizzly Sunday morning.
We checked out the pumpkins and walked through the tepees they had set up. Those were very cool, they were dark inside and there were dozens and dozens of carved jack-o-lanterns lining the walls of the biggest one.
We skipped the hay ride because it was cold and rainy, but it was very popular. Hopefully next year the weather will be better!
When all was said and done, we came home with three pumpkins, a half dozen pumpkin donuts, some cider, a butternut squash and Indian corn to hang on the door. What a fun way to spend the morning!
Carolyn loves to cuddle with Molly and Murphy!
