HOW do I have a First Grader?

School is back in session for the 2012-2013 school year & my Little One was so very excited to go back, see her friends & find out who her teacher was!
She was overjoyed to find out she had the teacher she wanted & a couple of her close friends were in her class! I will say the structure and large class size has been an adjustment for her. She is learning that school comes with rules and more quiet than talkative moments.
My little social butterfly is pretty well adjusted though and I know she'll be used to all the new rules and changes very soon! We're hopeful for another great school year!!
Here are some pics from the first day of school!

New Role in the Family

So after being the one & only "Little One" for 6 1/2 years, my little chick is LOVING her new role of big sister! She is a huge help to me & very rarely gets frustrated with the baby for crying. She has had very few episodes of jealousy & when she did they were pretty quickly solved. I'm so proud of how well she has handled this sweet little overnight life change we received!

Side note: I can't figure out how to move pictures around in the post so for now they'll all be at the bottom. Sigh. Can't have it all I guess. :-)

Big Sister in Training

I just thought I would share a couple of pictures that my funny child drew today. We were in the car and she was busy drawing something that she wouldn't let me see until she was done. This was her precious masterpiece :)

She drew herself, Mommy, Daddy & in the middle it says "I hope bruthur" & she wrote a 2 beside him

When I first told her about our plans for Foster parenting, trying my best to put it into 6 year old terms, she was adamant that we could only get girls and they would have to be babies because "well, I don't really like 2 year olds, they're wild". I explained we wouldn't be that picky and would love any little boys or girls who need a family while their Mommy & Daddy get well enough to take care of them. She has been going back and forth on what kind of foster children she wants us to have, currently it's a 2 year old boy...go figure!

About 3 hours after she drew that picture, we were home and she proceeded to tape every baby animal poster from a book she got at the book fair yesterday to her bedroom door. Then she posted this sign:


It reads "No Boys Allowed" then she added in the top right corner "Except my Daddy".

I sooo love this, not only because she wrote it all by herself and sounded out the words exactly like she says them, but because she is so hilarious and I know there are many many years of this ahead...except she won't be wanting her Daddy in her room when she's older either! My favorite part is how she spelled except. She says it just like that, "iceps". Precious!

SO Cheery!

The Little One has been asking (well, begging is more the word) to be a cheerleader for about a year now. When we found out how much it would cost for her to cheer for the rec league in our area we almost had a heart attack. Literally. We decided we should try and find something that was a little less of a financial commitment for the first season, just to make sure she would actually go in front of people and do it. She's been known to act shy in front of strangers and we wanted to make sure we got our money's worth ;) I'm kidding! (Kinda)
Anyway, we found a local church who has Upward flag football and were offering cheerleading. She has been to 3 practices and loved it, but we just weren't sure what she would actually do on game day. Let me tell you, she didn't even hesitate! She got out there, stood in the front row and CHEERED! She was a little quiet and unsure of the cheers at first, but by the end of the game she was yelling! It was absolutely precious!

Ready to cheer!

Belting them out! All of the girls were adorable...maybe next time I'll get all 10 of them in a pic, today I was only watching my cheerleader! :)