1st Grade and Field Day

Making goals with the soccer ball. Can you find the child in this 1st grade line up that is NOT even in Kindergarten yet??? He sort of blends right in!

Which is why they let him join the class for the entire field day.  He LOVED it!  He's flying rubber chickens into a hula-hoop here, who wouldn't love that?

 First grade art.  She LOVES to express herself through art.

My favorite piece of work that Addellyn brought home (I have NO idea what hey were studying and why she chose to write this as her sentence, but it makes us smile every time we look at it).

 Filling the water sponges--they always wanted to be on opposite teams so they could race each other.

Field day success!

It definitely wore her out to have me chase her away from trouble ALL day!

SINGERS!

 Kinzie's strut.

 Ally's tea party dance.

 The whole group.

 Typical: Kinzie paying attention, Evaleigh being crazy and A trying to take control :)

And of course, ice cream after the show!  She is VERY proud of her ability to hold the spoon in her mouth without any hands--and with every one else laughing it only puffs her up more!

ONE whole year

oh, our FUN, LOVING, CURIOUS, BRIGHT, BUSY, HAPPY, VOCAL, littlest girl...

 Church always wears her out (but it might wear Ty out a little bit more just from chasing her wildness around for hours).

 She REALLY loves to look through pictures of loved ones.-- "I see," "A-pa" (for grandparents), "nana," "papa," "dadDee," "Co-culk" (coleson), "Naaaun" (addellyn), "NenNee" (kinzie), "bAbee" (beckett), "yah" (for all other pictures that she doesn't remember or can't say their names).

She BEGS to ride in the stroller--"struu-der" "pees"

 She really enjoys climbing (even a rocking chair arm seems safe to her apparently--especially if it gets her closer to the wall of pictures)...YIKES!

 She can get out of ANY buckle--no matter how tight or how many "points" the harness may be...

She doesn't like the grass to touch her skin, AT ALL (best possible way to keep her still for a few minutes)

 She LOVES spending time with Co-culk, especially if they can be making sound effects together (like car sounds, animal sounds, etc.)

 She's figured out how to get her clothes off, and is proud of it! (even if they're zipped and snapped)

She LOVES to read books, ESPECIALLY books with animals so that she can make all of her animal noises (cow, cat, horse, sheep, pig, owl, bee, dog, duck, frog, bear, elephant, monkey, tiger, lion, fish, bird, chicken...)

 She got LOTS of presents for her birthday (most of them came out of the storage closet--I let each kid pick something from the closet--animals(mrooo, rah, pphhh--horse), balls(bah), trucks(vrrrm, vrrm)--she LOVED them all)

 She especially loves this "ooo, ooo" tent with its opening door and working door bell!

 She says a LOT for a 1-year-old, but we think her first word was actually pizza, "peet-ZAH, peet-ZAAAH"

So that's what we ate for her birthday dinner.

She really LOVES birds, so I attempted to make an egg-less OWL cake--it still tasted fine, but the texture was a bit weird, so we let her do whatever she pleased with the cake and everyone else just had ice cream :).

She definitely DUG in.

She LOVED it!

the WAKE game

 Got to meet the Demon Deacon

 Watched a little bit of football

And had our faces painted to look like true Wake fans.