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Monday, April 22, 2013
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Project Life Weeks 11 & 12
You can see my whole 2013 set of Project Life pages (including the weeks I haven't posted on the blog) by clicking here. To view the credits of items I've used, click on the picture.
Kylie got her first stripe- a blue stripe- on her white belt on Monday March 18th. She got it for knowing her first round of punch combinations.
We needed a new birdfeeder solution when the raccoons learned to open the top of the feeders and scoop out all the birdseed. Karen indulged me with this new birdpost with baffle for our two feeders and it is working beautifully! I can still see the birds as I’m working in the kitchen which simply delights me.
Kylie has learned to swing high!
Karen taught her new SQL Exadata Performance Optimization class from home last week. It was a change to our schedule to have her on the phone and computer until 5:00 each day but we made it work. I took Kylie to the park or to karate class so that Karen could teach in a quiet environment. And it was so much nicer to have her at home with us rather than her teaching in some city away from us.
Blues guitarist Fruteland Jackson entertained Discovery students with music and a little history of the blues.
Easter Egg hunt at Kylie’s school on Friday. She proudly showed us her “non-candy” loot.
Kylie has started reading the “Rainbow Fairy” book series. Since March 1st, she has read six of them:
Pearl the Cloud Fairy
Bella the Bunny Fairy
Melodie the Music Fairy
Zoe the Skating Fairy
Gemma the Gymnastics Fairy
On Friday, after the egg hunt and lunch, the children had a wonderful afternoon spent in the garden. As you can see in the above photo, Kylie has no problem getting dirty. Neither does her teacher Ms. Kirby nor her friends Carly (left) and Carolyn (right).
Kylie had her first choir performance on Sunday March 24th. Karen and I both attended the 11:00 service to watch her perform. Kylie sang “Come Enjoy God’s Festive Springtime” by Telemann. She did a great job! Afterwards, she enjoyed the children’s portion of the Palm Sunday service.
Remember this: Kylie learned to make God's Eyes this week.
With a little help from her "lefty" mom, Kylie learned how to tie bows on shoes. We bough her this pair of size 12 shoes.
Love this story: I want to ride the dolphin because I'm going to be a marine biologist when I grow up.
School was out on Thursday and Friday. On Thursday we went to the zoo. And we started our Friday with watching this lovely IMAX 3D movie "Under the Sea". After lunch on Friday, we had a playdate with Carolyn at the park.
Rainbow cookies--we took sugar cookie dough, colored it with food coloring and rolled out some large rainbow cookies. We gave some cookies to Kylie's teachers.
Thanks for looking! Click on the photos to view the credits. If you want to see other Project Life Projects, see
Kylie got her first stripe- a blue stripe- on her white belt on Monday March 18th. She got it for knowing her first round of punch combinations.
We needed a new birdfeeder solution when the raccoons learned to open the top of the feeders and scoop out all the birdseed. Karen indulged me with this new birdpost with baffle for our two feeders and it is working beautifully! I can still see the birds as I’m working in the kitchen which simply delights me.
Kylie has learned to swing high!
Karen taught her new SQL Exadata Performance Optimization class from home last week. It was a change to our schedule to have her on the phone and computer until 5:00 each day but we made it work. I took Kylie to the park or to karate class so that Karen could teach in a quiet environment. And it was so much nicer to have her at home with us rather than her teaching in some city away from us.
Blues guitarist Fruteland Jackson entertained Discovery students with music and a little history of the blues.
Easter Egg hunt at Kylie’s school on Friday. She proudly showed us her “non-candy” loot.
Kylie has started reading the “Rainbow Fairy” book series. Since March 1st, she has read six of them:
Pearl the Cloud Fairy
Bella the Bunny Fairy
Melodie the Music Fairy
Zoe the Skating Fairy
Gemma the Gymnastics Fairy
On Friday, after the egg hunt and lunch, the children had a wonderful afternoon spent in the garden. As you can see in the above photo, Kylie has no problem getting dirty. Neither does her teacher Ms. Kirby nor her friends Carly (left) and Carolyn (right).
Kylie had her first choir performance on Sunday March 24th. Karen and I both attended the 11:00 service to watch her perform. Kylie sang “Come Enjoy God’s Festive Springtime” by Telemann. She did a great job! Afterwards, she enjoyed the children’s portion of the Palm Sunday service.
Remember this: Kylie learned to make God's Eyes this week.
With a little help from her "lefty" mom, Kylie learned how to tie bows on shoes. We bough her this pair of size 12 shoes.
Love this story: I want to ride the dolphin because I'm going to be a marine biologist when I grow up.
School was out on Thursday and Friday. On Thursday we went to the zoo. And we started our Friday with watching this lovely IMAX 3D movie "Under the Sea". After lunch on Friday, we had a playdate with Carolyn at the park.
Rainbow cookies--we took sugar cookie dough, colored it with food coloring and rolled out some large rainbow cookies. We gave some cookies to Kylie's teachers.
Thanks for looking! Click on the photos to view the credits. If you want to see other Project Life Projects, see
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Kylie's First Choir Performance
Kylie had her first church choir performance today. It's not a great video but you can see little Kylie in the center of the row. She is wearing a striped dress and a white headband.
Come enjoy God’s festive springtime
Hasten come rejoice in God’s Greatness
Come and fill your hearts with joy
Come and fill your hearts with joy
Come enjoy God’s festive springtime,
Come, come quickly, hasten
Come and fill your hearts with joy
Come and fill your hearts with joy
Come and fill your hearts with joy
The love of God is all embracing
Enfolding all those who seek him
O pledge thy love
O pledge thy faith and love to God
O, O pledge faith and love to God
O, O pledge thy faith and love to God.
Come enjoy God’s festive springtime
Hasten come rejoice in God’s Greatness
Come and fill your hearts with joy
Come and fill your hearts with joy
Come enjoy God’s festive springtime,
Come, come quickly, hasten
Come and fill your hearts with joy
Come and fill your hearts with joy
Come and fill your hearts with joy
The love of God is all embracing
Enfolding all those who seek him
O pledge thy love
O pledge thy faith and love to God
O, O pledge faith and love to God
O, O pledge thy faith and love to God.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Zoo Trip
Here are a few pictures from last Thursday's zoo trip.
The Dinosaur exhibit is back at the zoo. Kylie had fun walking up to each dinosaur and calmly announcing, "I'm not afraid of you."
We visited the new Butterfly exhibit. Kylie met this young man who won her heart when he gave her a crystal amethyst. I checked with his parents and they said it was okay. The two kids walked around discussing the pretty fairy houses and the few butterflies that were braving our cooler temperatures. I sat on a bench and listened to the tinkling music while keeping an eye on them. It was lovely. Kylie usually zooms through exhibits but because this young man was there with her, we stayed with the butterflies for over 20 minutes.
Kylie and I both love the blue manatee near the petting zoo.
She still loves the carousel. She wanted to ride the dolphin because now she wants to be a marine biologist when she grows up.
I caught this delighted smile when this bird crossed Kylie's path. She was sitting still and watching the otters swim. This bird walked by and right when it was in front of Kylie, it squawked and shook its feathers at her. She cooly raised on eyebrow at it and then started giggling.
After the zoo, Kylie dressed as a butterfly and did some dancing around. I managed this quick shot when she wasn't looking.
The Dinosaur exhibit is back at the zoo. Kylie had fun walking up to each dinosaur and calmly announcing, "I'm not afraid of you."
We visited the new Butterfly exhibit. Kylie met this young man who won her heart when he gave her a crystal amethyst. I checked with his parents and they said it was okay. The two kids walked around discussing the pretty fairy houses and the few butterflies that were braving our cooler temperatures. I sat on a bench and listened to the tinkling music while keeping an eye on them. It was lovely. Kylie usually zooms through exhibits but because this young man was there with her, we stayed with the butterflies for over 20 minutes.
Kylie and I both love the blue manatee near the petting zoo.
She still loves the carousel. She wanted to ride the dolphin because now she wants to be a marine biologist when she grows up.
I caught this delighted smile when this bird crossed Kylie's path. She was sitting still and watching the otters swim. This bird walked by and right when it was in front of Kylie, it squawked and shook its feathers at her. She cooly raised on eyebrow at it and then started giggling.
After the zoo, Kylie dressed as a butterfly and did some dancing around. I managed this quick shot when she wasn't looking.
Monday, March 18, 2013
Lesson Showcase
Last Monday night was Kylie’s lesson showcase at school. I thought I would share some photos. Kylie presented three lessons to us: the bead star which teaches about counting, sight words and tying bows. Although we are proud of all of Kylie’s accomplishments, we weren’t particularly impressed with this showcase. It seems to us that Kylie has outgrown this environment. Perhaps we are simply excited for her to attend Bolles next year which will be a more structured private school.
Attending her last Montessori showcase did make me nostalgic for previous years. It's hard to believe that she's been in that same classroom for three years now. Check out some previous showcase photos and look at how much our girl has grown!
March 2012
February 2011
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Project Life Pages
Here's some catch up on my Project Life Pages.
Some weeks I enjoy printing just my Instagram photos and adding a note explaining a bit about the photos. I love Instagram! I'm WENDYM888 if you want to follow me.
For Week 6, I photographed our letterboxing trip.
Sunday Feb 3, we went to the Ribault Monument at the Fort Caroline National Park to find “The Wizard” letterbox stamp. Kylie found the stamp near a large tree on the side of the parking lot. Inside the letterbox, there was beautiful hand-carved stamp of a wizard along with a guestbook. After we stamped our book, we walked the few steps to the Monument which is the spot where Ribault claimed Florida for France in 1552. There was a view of St. John’s River and some lovely climbing trees. It was a short and successful letterbox trip!
Week 6 page 2 had notes on Spring Cleaning, our yard sale, Kylie's iPod and her sleep patterns. The journaling reads:
As part of my early Spring cleaning and in order to get ready for Kylie’s yard sale, I went through everything in the Florida room. And then I decided to flip-flop the chair area and the low bookcase. It’s nice to have a change in there. And even better to weed out the old toys.
There were two pre-k teachers ready to pounce on our yard sale before it officially opened. They took the majority of the board books and toddler DVD’s. Our neighbor’s daughter, Sammie, was also a good customer and a great friend to Kylie all day. Sammie and Kylie kept one another occupied during the sale. We made sure Kylie thanked all of her customers. And we took the unsold items to Goodwill. We ended up making $70! It was far more than we anticipated.
We ran an ad in the local paper, “The Beaches Leader” for the yard sale. The cost of the ad was $13. Well worth it!
I loaded some songs and albums onto Kylie’s iPod. We put a mini speaker in the Florida room to play her songs. Kylie was thrilled to have her “own music” like some of her older friends have. And she danced with happiness the day we set it all up.
Kylie slept in all this week! Normally, she is awake at 6am but her body clock must have shifted. I actually had to wake her up at 7:00 a couple of mornings. I have to say I had some avenging parental glee at waking her up. Maybe after 5 ½ years of her waking me up the tides are turning.
For Project Life Week 7- I showcased Kylie and her bead loom and included some notes about my doctor's appointment and Karen's travel. Journaling reads:
Karen was in Denver Colorado February 10 – 14.
Monday 2/11 I saw the doctor at Florida Sports Medicine Institute. He diagnosed my injury as a grade 2 adductor strain. He prescribed physical therapy three times a week for four weeks at a rehab center at the beach. My first appointment is Monday 2/18. The doctor believes it will be 3-4 weeks before I can run again.
Kylie got a bookmark at her school’s PE class. The girls beat the boys at their activities and the girls got bookmarks.
Kylie’s school celebrated Chinese New Year. As a special snack, the class had egg rolls. When Kylie came home she told me, “I tried one of the egg rolls and I really didn’t like it. I wanted to be polite so I went to the bathroom and spit it out in the garbage there.” Good story Kylie!
Kylie learned the art of working a bead loom this week. She was so proud of her first bead decoration that she asked to take it to school. I sent a note to her teachers asking permission.
Week 7 page 2 was about Valentine's Day, Kylie playing at the park and her latest Kiwi Crate. Journaling reads:
Kylie traversed the entire tire loop at Jack Russell Park for the first time. Some of those tires are really tilted making it challenging. She was so proud of herself. And I captured her triumphant finish on video. Way to go Kylie!
Kylie signed the back of all of her valentines and taped a colorful pencil onto each card. At school, she got to decorate her valentine bag and the children passed out their cards by putting them into the bags. At home, we gave Kylie days-of-the-week socks, a secret diary with a lock, and a mood-changing necklace along with some stickers and a ring pop.
Play date at the park on Friday with kindergarten friend Carolyn- no school.
With this month’s Kiwi Craft Crate, we made yarn pompon animals and a cardboard swing and slide.
Some weeks I enjoy printing just my Instagram photos and adding a note explaining a bit about the photos. I love Instagram! I'm WENDYM888 if you want to follow me.
For Week 6, I photographed our letterboxing trip.
Sunday Feb 3, we went to the Ribault Monument at the Fort Caroline National Park to find “The Wizard” letterbox stamp. Kylie found the stamp near a large tree on the side of the parking lot. Inside the letterbox, there was beautiful hand-carved stamp of a wizard along with a guestbook. After we stamped our book, we walked the few steps to the Monument which is the spot where Ribault claimed Florida for France in 1552. There was a view of St. John’s River and some lovely climbing trees. It was a short and successful letterbox trip!
Week 6 page 2 had notes on Spring Cleaning, our yard sale, Kylie's iPod and her sleep patterns. The journaling reads:
As part of my early Spring cleaning and in order to get ready for Kylie’s yard sale, I went through everything in the Florida room. And then I decided to flip-flop the chair area and the low bookcase. It’s nice to have a change in there. And even better to weed out the old toys.
There were two pre-k teachers ready to pounce on our yard sale before it officially opened. They took the majority of the board books and toddler DVD’s. Our neighbor’s daughter, Sammie, was also a good customer and a great friend to Kylie all day. Sammie and Kylie kept one another occupied during the sale. We made sure Kylie thanked all of her customers. And we took the unsold items to Goodwill. We ended up making $70! It was far more than we anticipated.
We ran an ad in the local paper, “The Beaches Leader” for the yard sale. The cost of the ad was $13. Well worth it!
I loaded some songs and albums onto Kylie’s iPod. We put a mini speaker in the Florida room to play her songs. Kylie was thrilled to have her “own music” like some of her older friends have. And she danced with happiness the day we set it all up.
Kylie slept in all this week! Normally, she is awake at 6am but her body clock must have shifted. I actually had to wake her up at 7:00 a couple of mornings. I have to say I had some avenging parental glee at waking her up. Maybe after 5 ½ years of her waking me up the tides are turning.
For Project Life Week 7- I showcased Kylie and her bead loom and included some notes about my doctor's appointment and Karen's travel. Journaling reads:
Karen was in Denver Colorado February 10 – 14.
Monday 2/11 I saw the doctor at Florida Sports Medicine Institute. He diagnosed my injury as a grade 2 adductor strain. He prescribed physical therapy three times a week for four weeks at a rehab center at the beach. My first appointment is Monday 2/18. The doctor believes it will be 3-4 weeks before I can run again.
Kylie got a bookmark at her school’s PE class. The girls beat the boys at their activities and the girls got bookmarks.
Kylie’s school celebrated Chinese New Year. As a special snack, the class had egg rolls. When Kylie came home she told me, “I tried one of the egg rolls and I really didn’t like it. I wanted to be polite so I went to the bathroom and spit it out in the garbage there.” Good story Kylie!
Kylie learned the art of working a bead loom this week. She was so proud of her first bead decoration that she asked to take it to school. I sent a note to her teachers asking permission.
Week 7 page 2 was about Valentine's Day, Kylie playing at the park and her latest Kiwi Crate. Journaling reads:
Kylie traversed the entire tire loop at Jack Russell Park for the first time. Some of those tires are really tilted making it challenging. She was so proud of herself. And I captured her triumphant finish on video. Way to go Kylie!
Kylie signed the back of all of her valentines and taped a colorful pencil onto each card. At school, she got to decorate her valentine bag and the children passed out their cards by putting them into the bags. At home, we gave Kylie days-of-the-week socks, a secret diary with a lock, and a mood-changing necklace along with some stickers and a ring pop.
Play date at the park on Friday with kindergarten friend Carolyn- no school.
With this month’s Kiwi Craft Crate, we made yarn pompon animals and a cardboard swing and slide.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Letterboxing
Since school was out on Monday, Kylie and I decided to go letterboxing at a nearby park. Here are a few pictures from the day:
Kylie found the Eagle Scout Map which was one of our clues.
We saw lots of woodpeckers along the way.
I'm wary when the letterbox clues have you in a wooded area and tell you "look for a stump and then look for a log". We looked around two stump/log combinations before we found the correct one on the third try.
It's always a relief to find the box. And it's fun to see the hand-carved stamp.
We stamp the letterbox stamp onto our book and pages. Then we stamp our three-star family stamp into the guestbook.
Mostly we love letterboxing because it takes us to new parks. It gets us out of the house and into the fresh air and sunshine.
Kylie was asking me if we could return and ride our bikes around the paved trails.
Kiddo found a good climbing tree.
Our girl loves trees.
It was a good letterboxing day!
Kylie found the Eagle Scout Map which was one of our clues.
We saw lots of woodpeckers along the way.
I'm wary when the letterbox clues have you in a wooded area and tell you "look for a stump and then look for a log". We looked around two stump/log combinations before we found the correct one on the third try.
It's always a relief to find the box. And it's fun to see the hand-carved stamp.
We stamp the letterbox stamp onto our book and pages. Then we stamp our three-star family stamp into the guestbook.
Mostly we love letterboxing because it takes us to new parks. It gets us out of the house and into the fresh air and sunshine.
Kylie was asking me if we could return and ride our bikes around the paved trails.
Kiddo found a good climbing tree.
Our girl loves trees.
It was a good letterboxing day!
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