The Start of Kindergarten

Well, Callie is officially in kindergarten. Even though she is 6, and not the traditional 5, I still can't believe she is old enough to be in school. We have made the decision to homeschool for now. We don't know how long we will homeschool, but it works for us right now, so that's what we're going to stick with.

I bought the kindergarten curriculum from My Father's World. It has been pretty easy for Callie since it starts out learning letters and numbers, but I focus more on handwriting, and I love the Bible lessons that all the lessons are based on.

We made a Creation timeline during the first week of school:

Auntie Anna also did a fun ocean craft with them:

And we had a fun lunch that went along with what God has created:

And a rare pic of my baby girl sleeping:

Catching Up--4th of July

I have been really bad about downloading pics from my camera lately, so here are a few pics from the summer.

We had a fun 4th of July. My parents were visiting, so that made it even more fun!

Breakfast!

Fourth of July kiddos with my parents:

I did make a sensory bin for them to play with. I mixed up some Oobleck and put out a few 4th of July themed things for them to play with.

I thought it looked so pretty with the sprinkles melting and swirling together.

My mom treated us girls to a fun pedicure:

We didn't really have a special meal, but we did make some fun strawberries and juice. Callie wanted to decorate, so she picked out a few things at Walmart and set the table all by herself!

The we went to watch the fireworks, though Jamey only stayed for the early festivities then headed home to put Riley to bed.

Callie's 6th Birthday

These last 6 years have flown by. I have watched my beautiful baby girl grow into a fun-loving, sweet girl who I adore with all my heart. We will officially be starting kindergarten this week, which makes me a little sad, but I know we will have a lot of fun. Callie has been begging for a mermaid party almost since her last birthday. I have informed my kiddos that we are only going to do a "party" every 5 years. This year however, our cousin, whom they call Auntie Anna, moved here and she loves to plan parties. So we planned a mermaid party! It was kept small, so that made it easy. Everything turned out super cute.

We did a Mermaids and Pirates theme since there were a total of 2 boys in the group. :) All the food was ocean themed. We had starfish cookies, goldfish crackers, peanut butter and jellyfish sandwiches, sea cucumbers, and crab legs. Callie had also requested a strawberry cake, so we made a layered cake with whipped cream and strawberries as filling and I frosted it to look like aqua fish scales. It was an "ombre" cake, which means it is frosted with varying shades of the same color. You can't tell from the pics, but it turned out really cool.

 Jamey took her out front to take a pic and she completely posed like this on her own. What a clown!

 Cake in progress.

I love my little man! He randomly came outside dressed as a pirate or a knight. I wish we had captured him as a pirate. So stinkin' cute!

This wreath took me forever! I dyed several hundred coffee filters, so our kitchen table was out of commission for about two weeks while I had these laid out to dry.

The adorable birthday girl.

 The finished cake.

Callie wanted to taste the fondant pearls I made. Fondant doesn't taste that great to begin with, but I didn't put any flavoring in it because I only made a few and wasn't planning on anyone eating them. They were just made with shortening and powdered sugar. Apparently she didn't like them! I love the look on her little friend Sophia's face also!

Here you can see the colors of the cake, but the camera settings weren't very good to capture the layers. There are four different colors, and in person the colors were very pronounced. It turned out really cool. A perfect "mermaid" cake!

Callie's requested strawberry cake with whipped cream and real strawberries inside. It was delicious!

She got some awesome cowboy boots!

One of the cutest party goers!

With the turning of 6 comes the official start of kindergarten. *Sigh*. I just don't want to face the fact that my babies are growing up. We started last week, so I'll post pics soon. 

Someone also turned 8 months old this month:

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