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A few weeks ago Will's company had a "family day" up in Park City. I have to admit I wasn't expecting much. I mean, they gave us tickets to Lagoon last year and Jacey still talks about it. (Mom, when can we go to The Goon again?) So I didn't think that the Alpine slide was going to impress her much. I was wrong! Jacey loved the both the slide and the coaster, and Londyn was in heaven on the old rickety carousel they had. The attendant on the carousel left us on there for 20 minutes at a time. No joke. Will finally had to ask her if the ride was about over before she would finally turn it off. All of the adults were turning green, but the kids had a great time. Jacey also jumped on the trampoline with the bungee cords. She kept trying to do a back flip, but the cords were just a little bit stronger than she was. So she mostly just back-flopped. Nathan jumped too and that was rather amusing. (Sorry Nate, but you looked funny.)
I was excited to get to go on the zip line - I'd never been on one before. Nathan and I went up and got in line, but when we were about 3rd in line they had some trouble with the little mechanism that returns the harness to the top, so they shut it down. I was bummed, but they said they'd reopen in later. Well we waited and waited and finally just before they closed, we saw some people going down. So we ran back to the lift and made in on just as they were closing. We were the last ones up for the night. It was a RUSH! I thought that since you go so fast that it would be over really quickly, but it seemed to just keep going and going. I loved it. It may have helped, however, that it was dark so I couldn't really see how far away the ground was.
Anyway, I'm rambling now. The girls got their faces painted like butterflies. Londyn kept wiping hers on my pant leg. Grrrr. These are about the only pictures I took - I took my camera back to the car when I had to change Londyn's diaper so that I could ride the zip line without worrying about it.
#2
If you have to do an "all about me" poster or project or something for your kiddos this year, you may find this useful.
Last year my sister called me and asked me if I had any pictures of Natalyn swimming. I said sure. Then she asked if I had a picture of peanut butter. Huh?? Apparently Natalyn had to do a poster for being the spotlight student that week or something, and Marie was looking for pictures of her favorite things. Well, I didn't have a picture of peanut butter, but I knew how to find one. On this website you can download high-res photos of all sorts of random things. (There are other websites - just Google "free stock photography".)
Jacey had to do an "all about me" page to share at preschool, so we found pictures of pizza, ballet shoes, roller coasters (see above reference to "The Goon"), crayons and waffles. I had them printed at walmart, along with a few others that I had of her doing things she loves like swimming and reading stories. Jacey told me what pictures to search for and then she glued the printed pictures down on the poster. I thought about having her write captions, but she's just too young - her writing skills are . . . still developing. Anyway, easy peasy. Way easier than digging through old magazines.
#3
Speaking of preschool, can you believe I almost forgot to take a picture of her first day??? As I was getting the kids in the car, I saw my neighbor taking photos of her kindergartner. Doh! Pictures!
Jacey LOVES preschool. I am so glad we ended up signing her up. I asked her after her first day if she made any friends. She said "Well, I almost made friends with a girl playing in the kitchen, but then I didn't." I didn't really get that - I mean how do you almost make friends? I thought maybe something happened - somebody said something mean or something? I didn't get it. Well yesterday she came home today and said "Mom! I made a friend today! Her name is Zoe." I said "That's great Jacey, how did you make friends with her?" And she said "She was playing in the little kitchen and I went over there and said 'Hi! Do you want to make friends?' and she said 'Sure'!" Funny girl.
6 comments:
That's so cute. Almost friends . . . she is so brave and friendly! My kids are never brave enough to ask names of their "new friends." Glad she's loving preschool. Are you loving the one-on-one time with Londyn?
The face painting is beautiful, by the way, very elaborate!
Oh, cute little Jacey on her first day of school! I'm glad you saw your neighbor to remind you to take a picture.
I can't believe Londyn sat there long enough for them to paint her face! And so funny about the carousel. My pregnant friend and I had the same thing happen to us at the mall a couple weeks ago with our girls. We were the only ones on this teeny carousel so she kept us on FOREVER. Two pregnant ladies spinning in small circles for long amounts of time= extreme nausea. It was pretty funny though.
That's cool that E&Y does little family things like that. I think PwC tries, but doesn't quite get there. We do have exciting news though. Tom got a new job and starts on Wednesday! Halelujah. I'll have more details about it in an upcoming post. I'm sure that's just putting you on the edge of your seat now. ;)
At least you remembered to take the picture on the first day of school. With Clara, I totally forgot, and she didn't go the 2nd day, so her pic is of the 3rd day of school. She is getting so big!!!
I love the face paint ( I don't love the face paint when they fall asleep before you can take it off).
How long does it take you to do Jacey's hair- it looks SO thick!
Julie - her hair is SUPER thick. We only do her hair on Sunday mornings. And we only wash it on Saturday nights. It's kind of dry and not at all greesy, so she can get away with that. (I wish I could!) It takes at least an hour to flat iron it on Sundays, but then we just touch it up throughout the week.
Your kids are darling. The actual pictures are amazing. What kind of camera do you have......this is Jaymi Davis's snoopy mom whom loves to read her children's blogs. (Nanette Whiting)I'm just learning how to do this, so take in everything I can about each blog. What wonderful families!
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