school time

We are now starting our 3rd week of homeschooling.  I will be honest, it's getting a little harder to be motivated.. lol  But baby girl makes sure to stay on track, she loves doing school.
We are using sonlight PreK curriculum.  I try to do some arts and crafts with her at least 3 times a week.  She LOVES to color and draw.

Her math book 

Early Bird Kindergarten math

Practicing the #1

 I will be honest, I just now gave her scissors.  I have been terrified of giving her scissors b/c of horror stories of friends children cutting their own hair. lol  But she knows it's only for paper and has been doing pretty well.

 more counting

 We made a little bear to go w/ a story we read

 On a different day we read about the platypus... Then we made a platypus puppet :)

game time

The other day my daughter and I played a round of Candyland.  She totally beat me.  :)  I loved watching her play, it's amazing how quickly she learned the game and it's so cute to watch her count the spaces and colors. :)

Ballerina

Last week my beautiful girl started ballet.  She goes once a week, and wishes she could go everyday. lol  She LOVED it!  We debated for a long time if we would be able to put her in ballet this year b/c it's an added expense.  Daddy said he'd find a way to pay and I'm SO thankful.  Seeing her smile after her first lesson was all the confirmation I needed :)

Isn't she just so precious!? 

Posing for mommy :)  And showing off her ballerina bow.

She wore this to ballet and looked precious!

You can get one too at BOWquet :)

Salon a Mommy

I have curly/wavy hair that I usually straighten. It takes at LEAST 1 hour to do it. Usually longer b/c I have super long and thick hair. My oldest loves to have her hair straightened. So sometimes she sits there and lets me play w/ her hair. I love it! Her hair is thinner than mine, it's not flat straight, it's got some wave to it, but nothing unmanageable like mine. :) Here's her hair after I straightened it. It's SO pretty!

Homeschool week 1

This week we started Pre-k4. We will be homeschooling, and so far big sis and I are LOVING it! We bought the curriculum about 4-5 weeks ago. The curriculum (sonlight) includes math, science, lots of reading and more. I supplement with arts and crafts and handwriting.

First day of school I had this set up.  Daddy decorated our board.  Our books for the week are on the table along with her name plate and binder.  I blurred her name :)

My little student is so excited for her first day of school!  I took her to Target and she picked out her school outfit :)

Working on her math book- Matching

 We usually work on the dining room table.  But this day I was feeling sick so we worked on coffee table and couch. :)

 We learn in Pj's sometimes :)  And in Science we're learning about winter/snow.  So we made a snowman.  I loved this idea to use a waterbottle and she's still carrying her snowman around.  That day we also watched Frosty the Snowman so she could see how "real" snowman is made :)

 I'd say our first week was a success.  She's learned a lot and I'm so thankful to get the opportunity to be her teacher. :) 

  The books we used this week.

custom orders

I've been working on some custom orders this week.
I had 1 request for a green bow w/ zebra of any style of my choosing. lol

I chose rosettes and just came up with this cute style. :)

The next 2 headbands I made for a silent auction.  The proceeds will go to help a friend of a friend who was injured in a motorcycle accident.  

Family getaway

Last week we spent the week in Orlando for a family vacation.  It was so nice to getaway.  I got a stomach bug and slept for 2 straight days.  After that it was hard to get around, but I managed to enjoy the rest of our trip.  

Something I really enjoy from our trips, is all the pictures to go through.  I LOVE taking pictures, especially of my family... 

So these are my favorite ones from the week:

My 3 loves at the aquarium

 I sat down to rest my legs and tummy, and there were bees all over the flower beds.  I LOVED getting to take their pictures :)

 I played with the black and white setting of my camera for a few shots

 Using the nighttime setting

 shot of the lake at dusk

 The pool where we stayed was awesome!