Jayda's Last Day of Pre-School!

Last thursday was Jayda's last day of pre-school. This was her first year to attend pre-school, so it was very sad for it to be over. Jayda loved her pre-school, her teacher, and her friends a ton! She had a lot of fun at school and learned so much. Her teacher, Ms. Rosie, was so wonderful, sweet, caring, and totally went above and beyond all year long. I think it is going to be very hard to ever have a teacher match up to her! I know that it is a bit early to say that, seeing that she hasn't even started kindergarten, but I guess we will see. I could not have asked for a better first teacher for Jayda. She truly had an amazing first year of pre-school. Ms. Rosie also speaks spanish so she taught the kiddos lots of spanish which was awesome. Jayda will say random things in spanish, or sing her songs from school in spanish and it is just so neat. Luckily, Jayda will still get to see Ms. Rosie next year for "Espanol" class. Thank goodness, because she was VERY sad when she found out that Ms. Rosie will not be her teacher again next year. I'm so thankful that Ms. Rosie gave all the students a dvd with a ton of pictures she took throughout the year. She captured every crazy, fun, new, exciting and special moment over the year and I am so happy to have that for Jayda.

Jayda and Riley going into pre-school last tuesday on "Water Day"!


My silly little monkey that wants to climb up on the table ALL THE TIME! We've had to start moving the chairs into the living room and flipping them over everytime after we eat so that the little munchkin will not get up on the table!


Sydney playing in her little chair the other day with the Barbie computer. She snatched it from one of the big girls when Jayda had her friends over and she was so proud!


The girls walking into school on their last day, sniff, sniff!


Posing for their last picture. What sweet girls!


Sydney having her "nak-nak" (snack) and playing in the playroom all by herself for the last time (at least for a while).


They celebrated all of the summer birthdays in Jayda's class on the last day. Jayda was very excited about wearing the birthday hat!


YAY for cupcakes!!


"Mmmmmmm" Sydney was very excited about cupcakes and "nak-naks"!


Jayda with her very sweet and amazing teacher, Ms. Rosie!


The girls being silly after school!


Playing together this morning. They love making the silly face!

Wordless Wednesday

Fun Times!

We had playgroup at Pecan Park last week and the girls had a lot of fun playing with their friends, eating cookies, running around, and feeding the turtles and ducks!

The girls eating their cookies at playgroup!


Sydney enjoying her cookie at the park. She loves sweets!


Chasing the "duck-ducks" around the park. She loves them!


The big girls got to touch the water at the park. This was a big deal to them!


Run, run, run!


We have been going to the splash park more and more lately since it is already getting so hot! The girls both love playing in the water, but Sydney seems to especially enjoy it this year. She has no fear and loves to take her "nak-nak" (snacks) into the splash park while she plays.

LOVES the water!


Jayda likes to fill up buckets of water and then dump them out everywhere.


Jayda got a little minnow from the pond the other day and was SO excited about it! We brought it home and put it into a little fish tank that we had. Sydney was very excited too and called it the "eesh!" Unfortunately the little guy only lasted about 2 days. We didn't expect him to live long, but it was still kind of sad since the girls were so happy to have a fish. Now, we get to make a trip to the pet store to get a "real" fish. Hope we have better luck this time!


Lourdes graduated from University of Houston this past saturday and we were so glad we could be there to celebrate with her! The graduation was at Minute Maid Ballpark. The girls both did very good during the graduation. Thanks to Oma for bringing them some yummy snacks for the graduation!

Jayda all dressed up at Lourdes' graduation.


Sydney snacking with Oma at Lourdes' graduation.


Lourdes and Justin after graduation! What a cute couple! So proud of you Lourdes!


Pawpaw and Jayda playing on the baseballs at the ballpark.


Of course Sydney wanted to play too!


Pawpaw and Daddy with the girls!


Sydney being silly climbing in and out of the chair. She loves to climb on things all the time. A few days ago she learned how to climb into the kitchen chairs and then up on top of the kitchen table! The other night I found her on top of the computer desk after she'd climbed into the computer chair, then up onto the desk. She was wanting to get the highlighters on the desk and was pulling the lids off one by one saying "whooooaaaaa!" each time she got a lid off. She is quite the silly girl!


Pawpaw tickling Jayda.


Nana and Pawpaw came out to visit us yesterday and went to church with us and then out to lunch. We went to lunch at BJ's Brewhouse and it was very yummy!

Failed attempt #3 of a family picture after lunch on sunday. Miss Sydney was so over getting her pic taken!

Lots of Weekend Fun!

To begin, I will start with last Wednesday evening. Jayda had an end of the year program at her little pre-school. She sang 3 different songs with her classmates, "Zip, Zap, Zing", "ABC Song", and "Get Your Jammies On!" She did so good and had lots of fun. She was definitely more into seeing who was in the audience and waving at everyone than singing her songs. Her favorite part about the program was getting to use the kazoo to sing the abc song. They first sang the abc song, and then at the part where it says "next time won't you sing with me?", they said "next time won't you kazoo it with me...OK, LETS KAZOO IT!!!!" And then they played the kazoo to sing their abc's. She has not stopped singing/kazooing this song since last wednesday! I'm excited for her that she knows her abc's so well, but I am getting ready to hide that darn kazoo! Anyhow, Uncle Justin and Auntie Lourdes came out to watch Jayda's performance so she was super excited about that! And then we went out for mexican food for dinner together afterwards. What a fun night!

Jayda with her class getting ready to sing. Slideshow above them has a picture of Jayda in her classroom.


SO excited and ready to sing!


Love the picture on the screen of Jayda and Sydney in her class!


Playing the kazoo to the abc song.


All finished! They all did such a good job!


This past weekend we had a lot of fun! First we started off saturday morning playing and having a picnic at the park. Jayda took her bike out to the park and rode around and we attempted to fly a kite. For some reason we have no luck with kites though so that didn't go so well. The girls had lots of fun playing with daddy, especially since they had not seen him all week, so that was very special. Pretty much anytime with daddy these days is very special because it is so few and far between! Hopefully daddy's work slows down a bit sometime in the near future because those sweet girls just LOVE their daddy!

Sydney playing with daddy at the park.


Then, later on saturday evening Sydney participated in the "Diaper Dash". This little race was part of a big charity event to raise money for pediatric cancer patients in the Sugar Land and surronding area. I actually did not know about it, but a friend of mine asked me if I'd be interested in putting Sydney in the race because the company sponsoring the event needed a baby to race for them. There were 2 heats of the race. One for the crawlers (9-12 months) and one for the toddlers (12-15 months). Sydney is 15 months, so she was the oldest little one there. She had a blast and actually won her little race. It was SO cute! I started her off at one end and Jacob and Jayda called for her to run to the other end. Jayda had brought Sydney's jewelry that she loves to play with and held it up at the end so that Sydney would run fast to her. It sure did work because Sydney bolted as soon as they said go and finished long before any of the other little ones! She was so proud of herself and kept going back to the starting line and running to the finish over and over while smiling really big like she was saying "Hey, hey, look at me! I'm so fast!" It really was the cutest thing! And, because she won she is supposed to get a free photo shoot and have her picture in a Sugar Land magazine. I'll have to post that when it comes out!

Getting hydrated before her "race", LOL!


Warming up...she is ready to go! Well, actually this is what she does all the time. Run around all over the place, all the time, non-stop!


Sydney won! YAY!!


Trying to figure out why everyone is cheering and yelling for her.


Doing her little race again after it was over!


"Winner, winner!"


And still running! This child never stops!


On sunday morning we headed out for Galveston. We had been wanting to go to the beach for a while but it seems like we always have something going on. So, when we realized that we had no plans for the entire day, and daddy was actually home, it would be the perfect time for a beach trip. Plus, the weather was amazing! It felt so good outside and we had so much fun! The girls both love the beach, and the water. Sydney especially loved the water. She kept running out into the waves and saying "wa-wa, wa-wa!" She loved standing in the water and letting it come up over her feet. Jayda had lots of fun building a sand castle with daddy, while I chased Sydney up and down the stairs on the seawall. Talk about a workout!

Running out into the ocean. So fun!


Playing at the beach!


Trying to help sister and daddy put sand into the bucket.


"Pat, pat, pat" the sand down.


Jayda loved using her big shovel at the beach!


This is my FAV picture of them at the beach. Just love it! Can't help but think about the book Jayda got when Sydney was born called "Sisters Are For Making Sand Castles". SO sweet!


Making a seahorse in the sand.


Jayda's sand castle that she worked so hard on!


After playing on the beach for a while and eating some lunch, we rented one of those mutli-person bikes to ride along the seawall in. Oh my goodness, this was the funniest thing EVER! I could not stop laughing! We put the girls in the basket in the front of the bike and Jacob and I pedaled the bike. My steering wheel did not even work and our bike did not have one of those little bells that you ring when you need to pass people. We realized later on that we'd rented the bike from probably the cheapest place on the island, so I guess you get what you pay for. As you can imagine this was quite a hilarious site! The girls loved it, at least for the first 20 minutes or so and Jacob and I had so much fun. We rode down the seawall for a ways and stopped to get sno-cones then headed back. The ride back was not nearly as pleasant though. Sydney finally realized just how tired she was, since it was 2 hours past naptime, and would not ride in the basket anymore. So, we had to take turns holding her, and pedaling the bike at the same time. And, Jayda had been begging us to let her "drive" the bike, so she sat in the middle and drove the bike using my steering wheel that didn't even work. Very entertaining ride home, but well worth it! After the biking experience we decided it was time to head home. Both of the girls crashed out on the drive so that was nice. We had such a great weekend and I was so not ready for it to end!

Ready to ride the bike!