TLEB in Texas: April 2010

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Meet the Teacher and an Owie

Poor Ben - had a fight with a toy at the park and the toy won :(

He's doing much better today thank goodness!

I can't believe we are already doing things like this, but Elizabeth had meet the teacher for her new kindergarten class! She hasn't been assigned a teacher yet so we just met all the kindergarten teachers (there were 5) and while they talked to the parents about what to expect next year they pulled the kids aside and did a little assessment.

Here's the front of the school.

After meeting the teachers they let us walk around the school to check out the kindergarten classrooms. We had to see where she would be using the restroom next year.

The classrooms were big and bright - with a bathroom inside. Very nice!

(especially considering that I didn't have a bathroom, sink, or window when I taught!)

I took her picture in front of a few different activities that the K students have done. We plan to put the pictures in a little book so Elizabeth can read it over the summer and get used to the school.

My big girl! :)

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Kids in the Bluebonnets

Since we live here in the bluebonnet state we had to take pictures of the kids in the bluebonnets. We are lucky because the pond by my parents house has bluebonnets growing around it so it's a perfect spot to go with the kids. Unfortunately the last time they had been here there were bees, so they weren't too keen on getting in the bluebonnets. So no great photos with them sitting in them, but maybe next year.

(I need a photoshop lesson, Chrissy and Jessica, on how to lighten up just their faces or just the kiddos, not the entire picture!)

I couldn't figure out which ones i liked the best so I pretty much put them all on here.

Hope you're having a good weekend! We had a very busy and productive day yesterday, I'll post the photos of what we got done soon!

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Bubble Mania!

A few weeks ago the kids and I were at my parents and we decided to give the kids a bath in my parent's jacuzzi tub. Elizabeth was trying to "hide" in the bubbles.

They had a great time playing in all the bubbles.

Hey Santa!

They wish we had a tub like this at our house!

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Welcoming Jena!

The kids and I went to visit my good friend, Joanne, who just had her 3rd baby girl! Ben and Elizabeth had a great time playing with her daughters, Jane

and Jill. Jill was walking all over with her baby, being the mommy. She was sitting on the bed putting her baby to bed- how cute is she?!

Jane's enjoying her bedroom! :)

Yay - I got to hold adorable baby Jena! She was over 7lbs, but she seemed so tiny! It's been awhile since I had held a newborn baby!

Thanks for letting us come over, Joanne. We had such a great time visiting and meeting our newest little friend!

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Elizabeth's Birthday at School

At Elizabeth's school they have a very meaningful tradition that takes place on the child's birthday. They are invited to the front of the room during chapel time for a birthday blessing given by the school.

Elizabeth has been so nervous about the birthday blessing. She did not want to get up in front of everyone. She was so scared! She has been talking about it for about 4 months, and she finally got ok with going up in front the week of her birthday. Thank goodness!

Doesn't she look so nervous?!?

The other thing that we did for her birthday was bring cookies. She was so excited to bring treats for everyone! Ben thought he was so big getting to sit with all the other kids.

Ben decided to borrow Elizabeth's birthday hat - fits him well I would say!

Later in the week Elizabeth got to have a special birthday tea with Grandma B. She was so excited!

She got Bitty Baby twins from Grandma and Grandpa! :)
She also got 2 matching outfits that match her babies. They look so adorable together.

She had a busy, special week for her birthday. Turning 5 is a big deal!

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Elizabeth's 5th Birthday

(Just to warn you - I lied when I said my last post was my longest ever!)

So we had Elizabeth's 5th birthday party on Saturday, the day before her actual birthday. She wanted a doll party - she is very into playing with babies so I wasn't too sure about what to do for the party, but we came up with a few things!

I forgot to take many pictures around the house of the decorations so this is the table after I gave out the favors. The whole table was lined with the boxes that were filled with pink m&m's and doll necklaces for the kid's favors.

A little closer of the boxes and doll necklaces.

Here's the kitchen and the cakes.

The mantel and all the presents.

Here's one of the cakes - a doll house of course!

Here's the doll to go with the doll house - too bad she was as big as the house!

We ended up having the party mostly outside because the weather was beautiful. A couple of the kids from Elizabeth's class were able to come to the party so she was very excited. Here is Elizabeth and her friend Bennett from school.

Elizabeth and Bailee - a playgroup friend.

Elizabeth and Emily - another friend from school.

Elizabeth and Maci - another friend.

I had 3 activities set up outside for the kids to do if they chose. Making necklaces for themselves and their baby, making birthday crowns for themselves and their baby, and making magnets. It worked out well just having them set up for the kids to do on their own time - it's hard for me to get that many kids organized to do an activity together.

Our friend Jane playing in the sandbox.

We also had our bounce house set up for the kids to play in.

My friend Joanne and Jackson. (She'll be having her 3rd baby girl about 9 days after this party!)

Zachary playing in the sandbox.

Cooper looking so cute!

Josh in the bounce house,

and Drew hanging out!

Amelia looking so precious!

After all the crafts and playing outside the kids ate lunch.

We then headed inside for presents!

Ben and Cooper were having a great time goofing around on the steps.

The girls are all so sweet watching Elizabeth open presents - they just watched and took it all in. That's Elizabeth with her friends Ashlynn and Jane.

Elizabeth and her daddy.

Me and Elizabeth

Doesn't that head look like of crazy on the TV behind me?

This picture was taken in the evening when we had the family over for dinner and presents. I didn't take any pictures besides this though!

The next morning was Elizabeth's birthday. We waited to give her our presents in the morning.

I made her a real life doctors kit, which she is loving playing with.

Ben must have an owie! :)

She really wanted to go play putt putt for her birthday. She's wearing the outfit Grandma B gave her that matches her new bitty babies.

Ben had such a great time at putt putt - he ran around the whole time putting it in over and over again.

We tried over and over again to get her to hold the club correctly. She finally was able to at the end of the day.

This is how she did it for the first half of the day - not very accurate!

Ben figured it out pretty quickly.

Our cute kids!

We then went inside to play video games. Over half of them were out of order so we ended up being done pretty quickly :) Air hockey was a favorite,

and doesn't Ben look cool on the skateboard!?! He would run from far away and jump on it. He's such a dare devil!

We had such a wonderful weekend. Our little girl is a big 5 year old now!!