Improv

Tonight I discovered Siena's ability to improvise.  She is quite the little "thinks on her feet" kind of girl. For bedtime we played the game of "Siena sings a song"  Basically you give her a subject or event and she will instantly make up a song and sing it to you.  It was hilarious!!!


Other bed time rituals include reading books on her own after story time

And falling asleep while doing it

I take it back

Well Cole isn't dealing too well with Kindergarten.  He has flipped out the last two days this week.  Poor guy thinks I will not come back to get him.  He says that he wishes he was Siena so he could have short school again.  Mike and I have decided to approach the situation in this way:

Bribery.  If he can go 5 days in a row with out crying he will get a lego after school on the 5th day.  He gets to put a sticker on the calendar.  I have also had him wear his watch to school so he can look and check to see when we will pick him up.  red hand 2, yellow hand 12!

We will see how it goes!

Cole's first day of Kindergarten

Cole's first day of kindergarten was great!  He seemed a little nervous but loved being in the class room.  He is getting used to his British teachers accent but I think he will learn to understand it soon.  :-)

Siena's first official day of Pre K

Even though we started Siena out in preschool back in January, Cole was still apart of it and it was just more of a day care / socialization for her.  Now she has officially started her 2 year program!  She loves it there and even has a little buddy named Ariel.


Her first day as told by the 3 1/2 year old herself:

First we played and then we go outside to the playground and play with the play ground.  Then we eat a snak on the big table.  We ate nola bars and waado (granola bar and water).  Then we put this hand in the paint and put it on paper and then on this hand. Rub it rub it all around.  Then I wash my hands.  Then we eat lunch outside.  And we got water outside.  We read an apple tree and coconut tree book.  Then we play a game and a other game but I don't know those gameses.  There is an animal game and a number game.

Hi mom. It's me.

That's exactly what I heard with I woke up this morning.  Siena crawled in to bed next to me and said "hi mom, it's me"  That was probably the cutest wake up I have ever had.  :-)

Gymnastics

With the London Olympics on, little miss Siena has fallen in LOVE with gymnastics.  What is stuck to the wall behind this cute sleeping girl is a picture she requested my mom cut out of the newspaper.  It's a photo of a local girl and Auburn gymnastics on the balance beam.  She asked my mom to cut it out and put it on the wall in her bedroom.  Siena is obsessed.  :-)  It's adorable.

Kids

I love them to death but I swear they do this on purpose.

Pinterest - Father's Day

For Father's Day I wanted something for the kids to do that was simple and didn't require a ton of effort on my part since it is peek wedding season.  I saw this little book idea on Pinterest and thought it was perfect!  I printed up two sets of 4x6 from my favorite photo printer and then helped the kids out with it!

http://pinterest.com/pin/15692298672118600/

http://eighteen25.blogspot.com/2012/05/free-download-book-for-dad.html


Here is Siena's book.  Please excuse my handwriting.  They both kept bumping in to me. The grammer may not be the best either.  I wrote it just as they told me too.

Here is Cole's' book.

Mike and Cole sinking in water

Pinterest - eggs

Pinterest.  It's a love/hate relationship for me.  I LOVE the idea, concept, basically everything about it.  I HATE that I can't spend as much time on it as I would like.  HAHA.  ok that's really not a bad thing, right?  So we all spend our days on there pinning, wishing, but never really doing any of it.  So I figured I might as well try some of these things and I will blog when I do!

So the first pin I will blog about is nothing spectacular.  It's more of a "does it really work, or not"

Hard boiled eggs - add baking soda to water and the shell peels off with no problems.

http://pinterest.com/pin/82612974385115712/

This worked!  The kids are obsessed with hard boiled eggs.  I am not so much enjoying the time it takes with the shell breaking apart.  Now the kids can peel the eggs on their own!  Awesome!

Fishing

Both kids have recently become obsessed with fishing after spending last week at a fishing derby in Meadow Vista with Mike while I was in Phoenix.

Yesterday while I was eating dinner at my wedding I got this sweet little photo texted to me from Mike.  Shortly after this, Siena slipped causing Cole to fall in the water.