A mini vacation and another week at school!

Since Mia had 4 days off from school over Easter we packed up and went to the Dallas area.  It was a lovely trip complete with amazing food, LegoLand, Sea Life Aquarium, Grapevine Mills Mall (for my Bama friends - it's much like Opry Mills Mall!), Fort Worth Zoo, Perot Science Museum and a visit to Ben's Uncle and Aunt in Mesquite.

April 22, 2014

April 23, 2014 

(Day after her first Tball game of the season so she absolutely had to wear her jersey to school!)

April 24, 2014

Field Trip Day!!!!!

The entire kindergarten went to Cameron Park Zoo for their field trip.  

Thankfully our class had 7 moms volunteer to chaperon so we only had 2-3 kids each!

April 25, 2014

In other news - our little bird friends from last spring are back and built a nest while we were in Dallas!!!  

We figured out they are Barn Swallows and Mia named them Theodore and Callie!

Science Fair!

I realized I completely forgot to post about Mia's first time participating in a science fair!  During the Spring Book Fair Woodway hosted Science Spectacular - complete with fun experiments to participate in and a science fair!  There were over a hundred entries between Kindergarten and 4th grade and they were all really cool.

Mia's project was named "Grow Crystals Grow!" and the question was "Do crystals grow better in hot?"  Turns out the answer is no - they don't grow at all.  :-P  She and Ben first tried to grow Tang crystals which didn't work and then we attempted Sweet Tart crystals and they grew pretty well!  Mia received a red ribbon stating "I dared to participate in Woodway's Science Fair" and an Honorable Mention certificate.

March 24th through April 17th!

It's been a crazy busy few weeks around here.  With school, tball, PTA, craft shows and work life has been zooming by at what feels like lightening speed.  Here are the daily pictures to catch us up!

March 24, 2014

March 25, 2014

March 26, 2014

March 27, 2014

March 28, 2014

"Twin Day!"  In hopes of preventing anyone from being left out Mia and I invited all her classmates to dress alike for twin day.  Super easy outfit with their class shirt and blue jeans!  It was a fun day!

March 31, 2014

April 1, 2014

April 2, 2014

April 3, 2014

April 4, 2014

April 5, 2014

Mia's first 5k!  She and I participated in the color run at school that raised money 

to provide food for students in need. Mia did a phenomenal job handling having colored dust at her!

April 7, 2014

April 8, 2014

April 9, 2014

April 10, 2014

April 11, 2014

Happy One Year in Texas!!!

April 14, 2014

April 15, 2014

April 16, 2014

April 17, 2014

Tomorrow starts a mini vacation!!!  Mia ended up with tomorrow and Monday off of school and Ben was able to take the same days off so we are heading up to the Dallas area to visit a zoo, an aquarium, Legoland and the Perot Museum!  We are all very excited!!!!

March!!!!

For March 3, 2014

So... I finally completely missed the daily picture of the school year for the first time.  :(   This is the next night but she is wearing the shirt she wore to school the day before.  We were treated to a Baylor Lady Bears Basketball game the weekend before by a super sweet couple we met at a craft show and Mia absolutely *had* to wear the t-shirt to school the next day.  I told Ben we were going to have to take her to a Bama game or she might just turn into a Baylor-ite by default!  LOL

March 4, 2014

Studying for her first spelling test!!!  

I made flash cards with both the words and all the letters that made up the words so she would have all different ways to study for her test: Sight, Touch and Memory.

March 5, 2014

Texas Day!!!!

March 6, 2014

March 7, 2014

Spirit Day: Storybook Character

We got Mia a set of Ramona Quimby books for Christmas (Ramona was one of my favorites when I was little) and she and Ben have been reading through them at bedtime.  I was so excited when she told me she wanted to be Ramona for storybook character day!

March 7-11

SPRING BREAK!!!

We went up to Hot Springs, AR to meet my mom and all my siblings for the weekend before spring break.  

We had such a great visit!

March 17, 2014

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

March 18, 2014

March 19, 2014

March 20, 2014

First day of Tball - Spring Season!!!

Mia decided she wanted to play tball again!  

Her team color is Purple and there are 6 girls/3 boys and both of her coaches seem very sweet. 

It's going to be a fun season!

March 21, 2014

Spring and Classroom Picture Day!

Catching Up!

February 10, 2014

 February 11, 2014

February 12, 2014

February 13, 2014

February 14, 2014

Happy Valentine's Day!!!!

February 18, 2014

Mia woke up to a pair of owls Ben had printed her!   

Made another day of not getting to go to school a little easier.

February 24, 2014

This little girl couldn't be more excited to be heading back to school!

February 25, 2014

February 26, 2014

February 27, 2014

Over a hundred days of school and I managed to miss a picture ... so I took one right before bed.

February 28, 2014

"What Does The Fox Say?"

Mia is still battling the ear infections.  She had to get a shot of antibiotics and is currently on yet another set orally. We have our fingers crossed that this latest round will knock the infection out!  On a much happier note - we got notification that Mia was one of two kindergartners accepted into the Gifted and Talented program at Woodway.  We are so happy for her!!!  T-Ball starts back up just after spring break - between that and a trip to see my family we are all full of excitement!