School has been out for just over 2 weeks now and we've already crammed more activities into those 2 weeks than I would have ever imagined. Weekends have been packed with parties and events. The entire month of June flew by and now here it is 4th of July.
Last day of school on June 19th. Since she was in school for less than 2 hours on her final day, I let her wear her Monster High flipflops (normally a no no). She was thrilled.
Helaina's 1st grade class celebration was a series of plays - Readers Theater. Helaina was "Reader Leader #1" - a narrator - for the story City and Country Mouse. She practiced her lines so much that she had most of them memorized and hardly had to look at her script.
At her school carnival there was a fire truck parked right in front of the school. The kids got to wear a real fire jacket and helmet.
Then best of all, they got to squirt water through the giant hose and knock down the "fire". Big hit with all the kiddos.
Ah yes, the glitter station. I must have been CRAZY. Helaina's favorite hairdresser from Snip-Its was there. She squeezed a giant blob of white glue gunk the length of her hair then sprinkled purple glitter over the entire thing. I knew it was a big mistake the moment it started. Helaina didn't want it washed out that night (of course), so there was glitter in her bed, on her pillow and sheets, stuck in her ears, on her skin, EVERYWHERE in the house - for days, weeks. Once in a while I still come across a blop of purple glitter lurking in a corner somewhere. Never again.
Helaina's 1st grade field trip was to the zoo. I chaperoned and was in charge of Helaina and 2 of her buddies. The combined energy of three excited 7-year olds surpasses anything that I had in my tank. Three hours later when it was time for them to board the buses back to school, the chaperones were high-fiving each other.
Helaina is a Bubble Guppy fan and still a mermaid fanatic. When I saw that Toys R Us had Bubble Guppy dolls I made the trip and got pink-haired Molly (Helaina's favorite). Bubble Guppys are boy and girl mermaids that sing, dance and swim through all sorts of underwater adventures. This was one of Helaina's 1st grade graduation presents. When she unwrapped the package and saw what it was, she immediately smiled and said "Oh, thank you!!!" They've been pool pals ever since. Helaina's sporting her purple Aqua Bandit headband that is added protection for her custom made pink swirled earplugs underneath. All in an effort to keep water out of those troublesome ears. We finally have an appointment with the eardrum specialist for September. Ugh.
Helaina's other graduation gift - a Monster High pillow for her new bedroom (if I ever get the walls primed and painted anytime soon).
Joshua's old room is being transformed into a princess palace. Helaina already has her new purple corner bed in her current room. We've promised her a vanity set for the new room. Now if she'll just settle on a color - yellow was the first choice but now she's leaning toward pink. She's got until I prime the walls to make up her mind.
Everything is pushed into the middle of the room. I started painting the beige crown molding white and that's about as far as I've gotten. Good thing we're not on a schedule because we'd never make it.
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