6 years old

Wow, how is it possible that Sofia is 6 already!  We celebrated with presents in the park on Friday and she has her party tomorrow.  Much smaller this year with only 12 kids coming and of course, at her beloved Chuck E Cheese!  Plans are all made, pink and zebra goodies.  I must say that I can not wait to see her in the birthday outfit!

Today was the craziest longest day!  This is what we did today:

9-10 – Ballet

10:30-12:20 – Living Christmas Tree practice at Church (can I just say Sofia gets to do something REALLY special)

12:30-3:30  - Nutcracker practice

4:00 – go to Costco to order the cake (yes, Costco cake and yes, the night before the party)

5pm – finally home for the day and had to practice hair for the Festival of Lights performance next weekend.

I am ready for BED!

       

 

Dance, Dance, Dance

Sofia is so busy with dance these days, it seems that is all we do!  She has 3 hours of dance on Saturdays – 2 of which are for the Nutcracker.  I took a moment this Saturday to snap a few pictures of her before class started.

   

This is her Angel routine

Zoo Field Trip Fun

Today Sofia’s class went to the zoo on their first field trip of the year.  It was fun – but hot.  AZ Fall has left us and it was 95 degrees outside.  Other than that a good time was had by all.  Something I thought was interesting – children could not bring and money and no food or gift shop items could be purchased – by children or parents.  WOW – seems like these days we sure do have to worry about hurting everyone’s feelings a little too much.  I was responsible for keeping up with Sofia and one other child, however, we ended up staying with 2 other groups so it was 3 adults and 6 children – pretty easy stuff!

  

The last picture I took of the day – she was mad at a friend that “cheated” in a coin dropping game in a well.

Wordless Wednesday – any guesses?

Tons of Halloween Fun

Wow, what a week!  Sofia had a pumpkin walk, trick-or-treating at my workplace, trick or treating with friends, a trip to the pumpkin patch and a Halloween party!  It was an exhausting week!  Lots of pics below of all our fun!

Pumpkin Patch fun – though I was furious because my camera batteries did not last long! Ugh!

 

Her Pumpkin craft  

At work with my as a Rydell High Cheerleader – she is my little lioness!

Carving her pumpkin for the school pumpkin walk

 

Hula Hoop contest at work

I was a kitty at the pumpkin walk – it is the easiest!

 

My Little Genie!

   

Getting ready for trick or treating fun!

    

With my friend, Jen – my costume was….Handy Mommy – tool belt (zebra no less) complete with: hammer, band aids, hair brush, cell phone, lipstick, wrench and candy!  Found the hard hat at a yard sale that morning - $2!

Sofia, Delaney and Hayden getting ready to go trick-or-treating!

      

best pumpkin of the night:

I am a terrible blogger!

Hi everyone, so sorry I have been absent.  Sometimes I think my blogging is like my working out – difficult for me to stick with!  But none the less, I am back!  Of course nothing very exciting to report but let’s see…..

• thanks for all the comments on the Chuck E Cheese Party – I have to make the reservations today (insert my sad face).  Gotta get the goody bags going and all the other stuff to make it as cute as can be
• Halloween costumes are all set – Sofia is a Genie and a lion (depending on where we are going)
• Roll Tide
• Arizona fall still = 90+ degrees – I mean how am I supposed to take cute fall pumpkin patch pictures with Sofia sweating and being blinded by the sun?
• Today while running (or walking) on the treadmill I watched VH1 – I never watch VH1.  I learned that Pearl Jam has a new album out.  WOW talk about taking me back to the good ole days of high school….oh the memories
• I have officially sworn off eBay
• I have also completed by Etsy Fall shopping for Sofia and got such CUTE things I highly recommend it over eBay any day!
• Thanks to QVC most of birthday and Christmas shopping is completed.  LOVE easy pay!
• I am so busy with Sofia’s Fall stuff there is not even a weekend that I could schedule Sofia to get 6 year pictures taken…ugh
• I let Sofia (for the first time EVER) pick out what dress she wanted to wear for Christmas (see below)

She picked the dress and shoes.

• Lilly is a wild maniac dog that now weighs 50lbs!  She also enjoys destroying things (read she bit a hole in the shirt of a brand new Etsy outfit)—I was able to fix it.
• I really can not believe that my baby is about to be 6 years old.
• Oh and Sofia has had a substitute teacher all but 2 weeks of the school year (that started 8/10).  Yesterday she was back (she has been sick – some sort of stomach thing) and today --- out again.  The principal said they were looking at a permanent solution to her.  YES – that makes me happy actually.  I love the long-term sub they have had I just wish the kids would know for sure it was either Miss H (the sub) or a whole new teacher.
• I am off work today and going to surprise Sofia at lunch and bring her home after lunch – today is early release day.  Do you guys have early release day?  Every Wednesday kids get out of school at 12:30. 

Bye for now and I pinky swear to be back to my regularly blogging self!

Yucky (I mean Chuck E) Cheese

So Sofia will be 6 in about 6 weeks and much to my dismay, she wants her party at Chuck E Cheese.  Now you guys know me, this is not my style of party.  Remember last year’s cowgirl party I wrote about here, here and here?

So I need HELP!   How do I make a Chuck E Cheese party cute?  I mean last year the piñata was the size of a Smart Car!  What am I going to do???

“Arise” at FBC

The Children’s choir sang Michael W. Smith’s “A New Hallelujah” at church today, it was GREAT! Sofia actually had a fever last night and this morning slightly so I did act a little like a stage mom and dose her up on Tylenol to help her make it through the performances! It was really neat to get to see the children perform!

Rehearsal pics: