Not-So-Scary Stories

So tonight we went to the Grapevine Library to see a Storyteller (Doryane Breedlove) tells us some Not-So-Scary Stories. You never know what kind of storyteller you're going to get when you find the information in a free publication but it looked like a lot of fun so we decided to try it out. Boy am I glad we did.

Doryane Breedlove was an EXCELLENT storyteller! The kids were totally absorbed in her stories. She told stories with music and skeleton stories where the kids used sticks to simulate the bones rubbing together. The kids favourite by far was the story of the Gunniwolf. Ms. Breedlove had the best voices and hand movements to go with this wonderful story. The kids LOVED it and retold it to each other in the car on the way home from the library.

I love a great storyteller!

Little Miss Turns 6!

Six years ago today Little Miss was born and our journey into parenthood began! Oh how time flies.

Little Miss turned 6 today and what a busy day it was :) We started out the morning with soccer team pictures at 8 am followed by a 9 am soccer game. The girls are really getting better at working as a team and passing the ball. Soccer game ended at 10 am and we were off to order pizza for Little Miss's birthday party!

Got home just in time. The entertainment for the party had just arrived - a rainbow pony! Little Miss was SOOOO excited. The pony was there for an hour and all of the girls loved riding and petting him (Little Man reminded us that the sparkly rainbow pony was in fact, a boy!). In between riding the pony, everyone played on the deck with their magical pony wands, swung on the swings, played on the swingset or built sand castles in the sandbox. These are my favourite kind of kid parties - play outside, ride the horse and I'll call you in for food when it arrives!

Pizza arrived at 11:50. We ate then the pony left and then it was time for cake. Little Miss picked out a cute little pony cake with a mountain background and 3 ponies on top. After cake we opened presents and then it was time for everyone to go home.

Little Miss had a blast at her party and loved being able to invite some of her new kindergarten friends.

Happy 6th Birthday my wonderful daughter!

Little Miss's First Soccer Game - Go Superstars!

We've had a lot of firsts these last couple of months!

Today we finally had our first soccer game. With all of the rain we've had lately our first two games of this season were cancelled so today was the beginning of our soccer game schedule.

We are a brand new team and have only had a couple of practices but I think we did great! We scored 3 goals in our hour long game and the girls really learned a lot about playing soccer competitively today :) Can't wait for practice on Thursday and our next game next weekend!

Little Man's First Day of Preschool at his new school

Little Man started a new preschool today! He was so excited. We got him a new Batman backpack and Spiderman lunch box and he was ready to go.

We met his teacher at Meet the Teacher on Wednesday. I really like her - you can tell she loves 3 year olds!

I was nervous that he would be clingy and cry (because that's what he did for the first couple of months last year) but he did great!

We took some pictures in front of the school and then I walked him into his classroom. His teacher helped him get his folder out of his backpack and put it on the shelf and then he hung his backpack in his little cubby. Then she directed him to have a seat and work on a colouring sheet and amazingly he sat and coloured :)

When I picked him up he told me all about school and sang me the Days of the Week song that he learned. Great day for Little Man!

Little Miss's First Soccer Practice (with Daddy as the Coach)

Little Miss decided this year that she wanted to start playing soccer. So last month we quit gymnastics and signed her up to play soccer. When I signed her up I asked that she be placed on a team that had kids from her school so that she might know some of the kids. We lucked out because two of the girls on the team ended up in her kindergarten class. Just after we signed her up we received an email asking for volunteers to coach and Ryan decided to sign up. Little Miss was so excited that Daddy was going to be her coach.

Ryan went to a couple of coach's meetings to learn how to coach 6 year old girls, we went to the sports store to get all of his gear and her soccer gear and we set up some practice times. Soccer is now officially under way! I ordered the uniforms last week (fuchsia and black) and we've got practice now once a week and a game almost every weekend until November.
These pictures are from their very first practice session with Coach Ryan. Each girl brings their own ball and Ryan taught them how to kick with the inside of their foot and had them dribble the ball around the cones. We had to cut practice a little short because there was a thunderstorm coming from the north and we saw the lightning and called practice.

The girls did great for the first practice though and I think this season is going to be so much fun!

Little Miss's First Day of Kindergarten

Little Miss was SO excited this morning! She was actually out of bed at 6:30 am - came into our room and said "Get up, it's time for me to go to Kindergarten!!"

We picked out her outfit last night along with the socks and shoes that she was going to wear and how we were going to do her hair. It took her a while to get to bed because she was just too excited.

This morning she brushed her teeth, got her clothes on, and came down for breakfast. We got her lunch all together and put it in her backpack (that's the only thing that she had in her backpack) and then went out to take some "First Day of School" pictures. Then it was off to school.

We parked a bit away from the school and then we all walked to the school. Little Man was running ahead and tripped on the concrete and busted his knee on the way in. He must have really hurt himself because he cried the entire time - we ended up taking him to the nurse's office to clean out the scrape and put a bandaid on it.

Once we got to Little Miss's classroom she headed right in, put her backpack and lunch box in her locker, went to her table and started working on the colouring project her teacher had set out for her. That was it - she didn't look back!


Ryan and I left with Little Man and headed to the library for the "Boo Hoo / Yahoo Breakfast" that they had. We didn't get to stay for long though because Little Man was so beside himself about his knee that we had to come home so that he would calm down.

All in all it wasn't exactly as I'd pictured it would be but we got her off to school without any tears! Great morning.... can't wait to hear about her day this afternoon!

Little Miss loses her first tooth!

Little Miss lost her first tooth today!! We were sitting in the car at Sonic. We had stopped to get lunch. She had a hotdog and had eaten most of it. Suddenly she says, Mommy, I have to show you something. She gets out of her booster seat and runs to the front of the car. Then she starts telling me that as she bit into her hotdog her tooth went really far back and as she's telling me the story, the tooth fell out in her mouth. Luckily she didn't swallow it :)
We put the tooth in a ziplock bag so that we wouldn't lose it - it's so small!
Then when I put her to bed tonight, she put the tooth in her tooth fairy bear for the tooth fairy. What a fun day as a parent of a 5 year old :)