Obviously I've been so busy doing fun and exciting things since school was let out 2 weeks ago, that I am just now posting about Alyssa graduating from Kindergarten. Well, to tell the truth, we have had done a few fun summer activites, but most of my time the past 2 weeks has been spent tending to sick children. Not a good start to the summer. Layla has been fighting a double ear infection and is teething horribly. We had a scare a couple of nights ago with her having a bad reaction after giving her a new antibiotic, that ended in me rushing her to the urgent care center. She checked out okay, and since switching her prescription she has been on the mend. We are now in the full swing of what I describe Tulsa County to be in the summertime as, "the depths of hell!" It is pushing 100 degrees these days and we are just barely into June. This is not a good sign for July and August. Robert and I are excited to take our family on a road trip to Colorado for a week this month and escape our normal work routine and this heat. We are meeting my whole family for a reunion. We are staying on Grand Lake in some cabins. I can not explain in words how excited I am to see my family members, to smell the clean mountain air, and feel the cool crisp air at night while we sit around the camp fire visiting, laughing, and eating smores. Can't wait!
Here are some pictures to recap the past few weeks:
Alyssa on the day before school let out. She loved riding the school bus this year. I was so terribly nervous at first for her to ride it, but by the end of the school year, Mr McDonald and #23 school bus was my new best friend. Saved me from dragging me and 2 other little girls up to the school at 8:00am every day.
Alyssa showing off her Kindergarten diploma. She has learned and grown up SO much this year. I can't even believe how much! She can count to 100, adding and subtracting numbers, writes her first and last name, writes the alphabet in lower and uppercase, she is spelling words, and has now started to read. It is so fun to listen to her sound out words and put them together. Mrs Goodroe told us that Alyssa was the student that grew the most out of her class.
It took a full week for Alyssa and Bella to work out the kinks of being together ALL day long again. But now they seem to be in love with playing together again. It has been fun to watch them pretend play, dress up, and find interesting things to do together while I have been busy tending to Layla while she has been so sick. This picture cracks me up! The other morning while the older girls were playing dress up in their room, I had just put Layla down to play on the floor while I was cleaning up breakfast, and she wondered into the girl's room to see what they were doing. Next thing I know, they walk Layla out dressed like this and they are putting on a fashion show for me. It was pretty cute!
