Some Back To School Pics From This Week ...

Since Amber steals all the spotlight these days, I figured this post was going to be pics of just Jade. This week was her open house at school, her teacher orientation, so the first few pics of of what she wore that day, this was the day before school opened. The rest were of her on her first day of second grade :-)



She was upset Amber was not going to the orientation day with us because I bought Amber the same dress and well Jade loves it when they wear the same thing, I will try and take some pics some other time of the two of them in this dress and post them then ...

These pics were all taken on our back deck.



Can't believe how her hair has grown since the beginning of Summer, thankfully because we were not as much at the pool this year as we usually are, at least her hair is in a decent condition :-)



Gosh the deck needs work, wish my dad was here ... he would help Dave with that, come Fall and cooler weather we are going to have to get cracking there.





Then these were taken the morning she went to second grade, so at like 6h30 in the morning ... golly we all took strain getting up that early but I am sure it won't be long and we will be in the swing of things again, I am so not an early morning person so not sure if I will ever get completely used to it !!!



Where has the time gone, most people know I am so not a baby person so I am enjoying my kids more and more as they get older, of course they come with new challenges but oh well what doesn't right :-) Also can't believe this is Jades second year at her new school, I guess I can't call it new anymore but having just looked at her first grade pictures also taken by our fireplace, it rings home how long we have now been in this house too ... again where has the time gone ?

She is still very into all her fairy and Tinkerbell stuff but we figured it was time for a change when it came to backpacks and lunch boxes this year so she moved onto Hannah Montana, which is so not a good role model for my child but what can you do, everything lately is about Hannah Montana and Justin Bieber which also is not great, golly what is a mom suppose to do ?



Here she is standing in the dark at our bus stop, shame, she so wanted to go stand with the rest of the kids at the earlier bus stop but this one she is at, is right outside our house and I am nervous that if we don't use it, they might take it away so I have had to force the issue a little until school gets going a little longer and then we can see ...



And there she goes ... :-)



The just three other pics that I wanted to post, a few weeks ago I had my jewelry renewal show, I made it a Diva Dessert Evening and it was a great success only I had a lot of yummy stuff left over, some I gave to neighbors and some went to Dave's work, I had to get rid of it all, it was all too good to have at arms length. Anyway here are some pics of the food. The chocolate fountain was a big hit and so was my peppermint pie which didn't have true peppermint crisp in it like it should but it tasted just as good :-)



There's the peppermint pie ... not bad right :-) you can also see all the yummy stuff I put out to dip in the chocolate fountain. Had tons of chocolate left though which I just turfed out ... just too much to keep.



This one is for Gavin, I told him I would send him a pic, you would think we are alcoholics in this house right (hehehe) but the ladies like all their cocktails so put out a variety that they could mix themselves, I had lots of frozen Pina Colada mixed though and later in the evening I made Don Pedros which they don't do here, they were enjoyed by all too.



Ok so the next big thing is Dave's Birthday, we will be going away that weekend coz as usual Jade has off school for the Labor Day weekend and Dave is off work so we will be out of town, anyone still wishing to call Dave to wish him, can call him on his cell, email me if you don't have his number and I will pass it on :-) Remember those calling from SA that it doesn't matter whether you call a land line or a cellphone, they all cost the same in the States.

That's me for now, have a good weekend.

Gosh Been A Month Since My Last Update ...

Ok well what can I tell you ... I am just going to try and add some pics from the last month :-)

So about two weeks ago we had a safety appreciation day of sorts at our clubhouse, with the cop and fire safety people out there, gave us an opportunity to say thanks for all they do. Lot's of fun and games, free drinks and food and face paining of course ...

This was the first one Jade had done :-) This one got messed up, will tell you later why and then she had another one done, pic to follow.



Action pic (hehehe) yeah cows can jump, Jade hula hooping with the ChickFilA cow.



Dave and Amber before she broke free of the stroller !!!



Amber having a fun time at this point but it only got better after she got out of the stroller.



As mentioned she got her face painted twice, this was towards the end of the evening when she was all hot and sweaty after winning a watermelon eating competition ... say no more, hickville here we come (hehehe).



This is the first time she has played with sidewalk chalk and she totally loved it, only I gave her a white one coz I thought it would do less damaged to her, yeah right but she eventually found all the colors :-) guess I will be buying some of that soon.



This was taken this past weekend, so she was 15 months old, messy hair coz it was in the morning and she was obviously in the bath getting it washed, but here it is before it got wet and later you will see it when it has been washed, too cute :-)



She has learnt to blow kisses but with tons of emphasis and sound, but consider this the A pic and B to follow ...



And there is your first blog kiss everyone ... enjoy, many to follow I am sure !!!



She is also very big into playing peekaboo right now and was playing it here with her big sister.



After her bath, mommy was very excited to introduce her to all Jades old CareBears :-) Love this stage coz mommy loves the Carebears, thank Heavens she was not scared of them or anything coz I think she is younger than Jade when I introduced them to her.

Here her hair is still very wet from the bath but you will see a pic of all the curls when they dry and of course the bow does not stay in too long at all, but I put it at the back of her head for a pic later and it looked so cute, the best thing is she didn't know it was there.



She totally loves music, loves to sing, loves to dance and loves to clap and put her hands up in the air 'hooray'. Thank God no kiddies music forced on us like when Jade was a baby, she totally loves all the loud music Jade and I play in the car, it's too cool !!!



Having fun sitting next to her big sister :-)



Some more shots of them :-) I like this one, here you can see how different they are, Amber actually looks a lot like Jade when she was this age but just with the darker hair, darker eyes and way darker skin but I think coz of her coloring everyone says she looks so much like me (hehehe) that would be nice if I had a baby that looked like she was actually mine :-)



Sadly all Jades other ones of her alone were all blurry coz Amber was climbing all over me :-(





Ok so Amber is still not walking ... but I have not been encouraging it and I am not concerned at all because she takes three to four steps before getting so excited by it all and falling down. She starts walking on her own without encouragement to get to shorter distances, she stands on her own for good lengths of time without holding on anything and gets up into a standing position without pulling up on anything so I think it's just a matter of time, she will probably do it when we least expect it right :-) and there will be no video around. Here she is practising with Jade but she gets so excited to do it, it's so funny.



All the excitement just wore the two of them out :-)



Sorry the bow is skew but I just quickly stuck it in there and oh my gosh are those curls just not too cute :-) love them but they won't be there forever that I am sure of :-)



One last one of Jade :-)



I actually have more to tell but don't have the time now as Amber is waking up so that will have to do for now, enjoy :-)