1st Grade

Our big girl Keira is in 1st grade! Its hard to believe that her kindergarten year is behind us, it went by so quickly but I have to say it is fun to see how she has matured.  She was beyond excited to go to meet the teacher night.. I think we scored when it comes to her teacher she seems wonderful.  Keira was excited that she had a few friends from last year in her class and was also super excited that her teacher is from Seattle! So the first day came and I got us there super early so that I would be able to get a parking spot...it was just me and the girls so I didnt want to walk a mile in the insane heat and monsoon humidity! So we walked Keira over to her line, she threw her backpack down and ran off to the playground with her friend Maddex I had to go find her to get a kiss and say goodbye! So far she has come home everyday saying she loved 1st grade! Lets hope that continues!

keira and her friend Kailyn

Keira and her friend Maddex

and off they went

FEED ME

Ok so I think I mentioned that Mia may have been ready to eat ...well at 5.5 months she had her first oatmeal and she didnt skip a beat.. She has been eating like a champ ever since. You would think that she had been starving LOL She has had pretty much all the firsts foods and is doing fab, now my only challenge is making the food fast enough :)

Seattle '13

Playing catch up a bit from our trip.. we took the only 10 days that the girls were free from dance and headed up to WA!  A break from the heat right?... not at all! Seattle had incredible weather the full 10 days that we were there and we enjoyed every second of it.  We enjoyed our first day at Madison beach park and had lunch and margaritas at Cactus! it was so beautiful.  Over the rest of the trip we BBQ'd with family, rode the ducks, hit pike place market, ate at kells, shopped, visited with some friends, had playdates, played in grandmas yard,celebrated the 4th of july... rick and I had a date afternoon and early dinner at Anthonys (delish), and my mom and I had a great girls night out at Kells with some besties. Overall it was a super relaxing trip. Of course we didnt get to see everyone we would have liked too but there is truly only so much running around you can do on vacation and with 4 kiddos and speaking of the girls they did so well!
heres a few from our trip.


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Mia is 5 months today!

this cute little bug is 5 month and I can hardly believe it.. and she has such a fun personality! She has lovely big smiles and such a cute voice when she "talks". She is so go with the flow and only if mommy is not fast enough to feed her will she let me know with the shrillest cry. She has found her feet now and who knew her toes could keep her so busy! She is definitely working on her sitting muscles.. working her little abs any chance she gets.. she is always trying to sit forward in her car seat or if I lay her somewhere.  I think she may also be ready to eat! She has always been a hungry girl and given that she has no problems sucking on the strawberries that daddy gives her I think that will be the next "big thing" Rick also let her taste ice cream!! she for sure had NO problem with that... naughty daddy :)
Oh Mia you are growing up too fast!

summer fun

we actually do have some down time too...

mias first swim

audition time

i feel like we are trying to squeeze in whatever we can into our short little summer break.. dance took up an extra two weeks plus the knotts performance, dance camp for a week and then this week Keira had auditions.  Her dance studio has regular classes, a performance team, competitive team and also company. So company dancers are really just those that have really taken to dance and want to pursue it a little more seriously they also get a chance to compete. So keira auditioned to be a company dancer yesterday and I am super excited to see if she made it. I have 'said" it over and over but this girl literally lives and breathes dance so I am happy that she has an avenue to maybe take dance to the next level...yes even at 6 yrs old it gets competitive...it seems like she has found something she really loves so shes going for it! I couldnt be more happy to be able to support her

Mia = 4 months

ok somewhere amongst the recital dance madness our baby turned 4 months!!! Cant imagine life without this little beauty! Such a good girl and just growing like mad!! At 4 months she weighs in at 14lbs 5 oz  60th percentile and 26 ins 94th percentile.We love you Mia xo