The Creek

To celebrate the start of summer my friend Kelly and I took our kiddos to Upper Spavinaw creek for the day.  The creek is a well held tradition in my family.  When I was a kid we would go every summer several times and I have such wonderful memories of it.  Hoping my kids will have the same.  

End of Kindergarten

Georgia had a little graduation ceremony at the end of kindergarten to show off what she and her class had learned.  They recited poems in Spanish and sang a bunch of songs.  It was fun to see how comfortable they all are with the language.

Here is the whole class.  I think there are 28 of them that will pretty much stay together until 5th grade. 

Georgia receiving her diploma from perhaps one of the best teachers in Tulsa, Sra. Diaz.

Sra. Mejia and Sra. Diaz

This is Georgia on the last day of school a few days after graduation.

And just for fun here is a comparison pic from the first day of school. 

Lightning Girl

About a year ago Georgia was invited to a super hero party and since she isn't really exposed to any mainstream super heroes we made up our own-Lightning Girl!  Well she refused to wear the costume before we left for the party and then at the party.  I was more than a little irritated but kids will be kids.  It has been hanging in her closet ever since then.  For some reason she recently decided yo pull it out and put it on.  So cool, right?!

Green Bean Hideout

A friend posted a picture of a neat idea on facebook recently so I decided to give it a try.  It was referred to as a living hideout but we call it the bean tepee.  We built a structure with bamboo rod and garden twine and then planted green bean seeds at the base.  We will see what happens over the summer.

Don't know if I've mentioned but we had "squired" one of my mom's peacocks through no effort of our own. He watched us build.

When the girls got bored they got out the art car Georgia had made a Philbrook that day and took it for a spin. You can see me in the background still working hard.  

Pancakes with the Firemen

One of our local fire houses has an annual pancake breakfast fundraiser.  We had never been before but went this year and had a good time.  The pancakes were good and the kids liked to tour and playing on the fire truck.  

The Reptile Whisperer

Darby just loves critters.  Here she is with a toad we found in the garden.  I usually have to force her to let these poor things go.  

Dress Up

My sister is great about handing things down to us and even though her girl is six years older than G we still have use for some of the stuff.  She gave Georgia a bunch of old dress up clothes for her birthday and the little ones had a great time getting into them.  

Darby in the hamburger hat.

Mera in the hamburger hat.

I can't even really describe this outfit.

Here is Mera as a hippy chick.

Georgia's 6th Birthday

Georgia's birthday was on a Sunday so we had a small family party at my mom's house where she got gifts from her parent's and grandma and Debo and uncle Matt and Aunt Kiki.  She was so sweet and gracious about everything she got.

 The Friday after her birthday we had a party for the girls from her class at my mom's house.  We rented the same bouncy house we used for Darby's party and luckily the weather was great.

 I planned a scavenger hunt for the kids that included a candy fairy hidden in the woods.  I have never seen a bunch of little girls go so crazy.

Here I am handing out the maps.

The hunt took them all up and down the land looking for shiny rocks, flowers and feathers. 

At the end they gave their stuff to the candy fairy to get their reward. 

Matt and Genevieve

Me and Mera

Hot dogs were served

Richie and Campbell

Bob, Matt and the twins

Georgia wanted a star cake so I made one and then made cupcakes to go with it for ease of serving.