Celebrating 6 years Hawaiian Style...

Addison has been "planning" her birthday for the past 10 months. She wanted to have grass skirts, a beach cake, tropical music, the limbo and drinks with umbrellas...

She had lots of fun and everyone experienced a little bit of Hawaii...the weather was perfect during the afternoon, so it even felt like Hawaii for a few hours.

In her words, "That was THE most awesome birthday ever!"

 

A New Chapter Begins...

KiNdErGaRtEn!!!!!

Addison was pretty excited to head off to Kindergarten. She met her teacher at Open House and Ms. Schumacher hit it off!

Fast Forward to today...
I dropped Addison off at her before school care site (Little Inspirations daycare) and Addison "reminded" me to give her a hug (like I needed a reminder or something:) From that point, she had a 30 min or so bus ride to school.

Larry made my day when he said he would be able to drop off Lauren and Ella and then head to her school to take pictures and videotape Addison getting off her bus. He said Addison looked a little embarrassed he was there (like paparazzi) but Larry said he was so glad he got to be a part of her day (and saw lots of neighbors there too!)

The best part was Addison filling me in on ALL the details...My personal favorite "story" was...

"Mom-I met this boy and got to help him. He speaks another language-Spanish I think. Well, his Dad speaks Spanish but his Mom speaks English so he can speak BOTH!" Well - I spoke with him in SPANISH to help him."

Me: "Really? What did you say?"

Addison: "Hola! Como estas? Then I counted up to 20 - (uno, dos, tres, etc...)"

This story makes me giggle because she thought she was "helping him" and because I'm really hoping he was indeed speaking Spanish. Last time she overhead someone talking with an accent, she assumed it was a different language and thought it was Spanish!

Looking forward to many, many more stories and fun ahead this year!

Open House night - Ms. Schumacher had a hopscotch  for the kids!

Ms. Schumacher and Addison 

A little treat from her teacher!

Opening her "Jitter Glitter" the night before Kindergarten...

Ella was SO excited so Addison shared the glitter and they sprinkled some under her pillow too:) 

There's no looking back....a new chapter begins!