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wood nymph
I love this photo that I took of Shayel today with my cell she loves dumping autumn leaves on her head and walking to and home from Revolution today was a perfect opportunity to do it over and over again.
First parent-teacher conference this year
We had our first parent-teacher conference of the year with Shayel’s first grade teacher. We have been so pleased with this school - it’s an International Bachelorreat curriculum and a very diverse school because it is the neighborhood school for most of the international students at CSU. She’s doing wonderful this year, the teacher didn’t [...]
eek! school!
Shayel starts kindergarten on Tuesday. She’s super excited but also quite apprehensive (her word). Today her teacher comes to our house for a bit and she’s been marking down the days with a magnet on a calendar we printed out and put on the fridge door. Monday night we all go to her class room [...]
Shayel writing
We were at the Loveland library the other day and they currently have a “crime solvers” play area set up. Shayel was dressed up as a police officer and wrote this it didn’t have the ‘o’ in woman the first time but everything else is as it was when she did it on her own. It [...]
Shayel and Blondie
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNMLAhNtloM] Is it odd that my 5 year old asked to watch Debbie Harry (honestly, she asked for her by name) on the Muppet Show DVD and is now bopping around in her princess dress, straw hat, sunglasses and boots singing “One Way or Another”?That’s not odd right? ROFLOL
dress up
Shayel wearing my tunic top backward and my high boots with my purse - doesn’t she look schnazzy? And again with Aliyah who decided to be understated in her “grownupness”
shayel writing
Shayel’s school wanted them to practice writing their first and last name using proper upper and lowercase letters. So we practiced a bit just now using the magnadoodle. The top part was mine - I helped her a few times with the letters she has a hard time with - so she could have a [...]
summer rainstorms
My girls LOVE the rain, Shayel always has loved the rain and insists on playing in it whenever it rains. Aliyah is the same way. Maybe it’s just a kid thing. Anyway, here are some photos. Shayel WAS clothed when she was outside hehe