Friday, CHH and I went to Rotunda Rocks at Jordan's school. We love this once a month half an hour performance of the pre-K and K girls singing various songs. Always really cute and spirited.
Saturday after ballet, I took the girls to Sweet N Sassy for haircuts. I also let them get their toes painted. They loved it! Both girls were showing people all weekend their toes. Side note: Jordan is not allowed to wear finger nail polish to her school so that is why we stuck with the toes.
Princess Katelyn getting her hair cut. This place is so neat. She was watching "Shrek" while getting her hair cut.
Jordan watching "Shrek" as well.
The girls love their glitter stars they get on their face when finished.
Afterwards they went to the play area at the mall to play for a bit. This is a new play area at our mall.
Saturday night, we went to eat at one of Jordan's school friend's homes. It is true with what I have heard -- many of your children's friend's parents become your friends. Our weekends are more and more full with activities of Jordan's classmates which is great fun.
All the kids were at one house with babysitters having a blast while the parent's went to another home for a wonderful dinner. It was fun and yummy. The kids of course had a blast.
Sunday, Jordan woke up early and wanted to play with her china tea set. Grandma Cruella gave this to her for Christmas. It is perfect.Jordan has a book called "A Bargain for Francis" -- Frances and Thelma are friends--most of the time. Thelma always seems to get Frances into trouble. When she tricks Frances into buying her tea set, it''s the last straw. The tea set described in this book is a china one that is white with blue flowers.
Unbelievably my Mom gave Jordan this tea set at Christmas which is exactly like the story she has been reading lately. Jordan was thrilled and played "tea party" Sunday morning. She did only set up three spots though and hid the fourth cup and saucer away. She said she didn't want Katelyn to join in because she was afraid her sister would break the tea cup and saucer.
More later on this but lets just say Jordan is practising her cartwheels all the time lately.
Not to be out done by her sister, Katelyn set up her own tea set with her musical tea set she got for her birthday. She had a blast playing with it as well.
Lunch time, we were off to a birthday party at Jordan's classmate's house. Jordan's friend has a little brother who is close in age to Katelyn so it works out well for playdates. Anyhow it was the little brother's birthday party. It was fun! Jordan and her classmate.
Katelyn loves this dinosaur at her friend's house.
Another one of Jordan's classmates read Katelyn a story. Katelyn loved this.
Katelyn at one point disappeared and showed back up dressed as Cinderella or a version of her.
Eating cake and celebrating the birthday.
Jordan and another classmate.
Katelyn and her Daddy.
After the party, we went back home where Jordan wanted to work on her school project. I have to say I was very impressed by my little girl (like I usually am). Jordan has a project due in a week that's theme is the celebration of the kids' 100th day at school. For the project, each kid is suppose to bring a collection of 100 items (something that will fit in their book bag). The collection is to be divided by 10's and placed into a colored bag where the other kids cannot see the collection. Jordan is then suppose to come up with 3 clues as to what is in her bag and the kids in her class spend the week guessing what is in each kid's bag.Well I told Jordan I though barrettes or buttons would be good items to take and she liked my barrette idea. Sunday afternoon, she got all of her clips, dumped them into a pile and then sorted them by colors. She then picked 10 barrettes of each color (not enough colors so two sets were flowers and rainbows) and put them in a zip lock bag. She had 10 zip locks bags at the end and put them in a lunch bag. Her project is ready to go for a week from now - yeah!
What impressed me was she wanted to do this project all on her own. She told me she was busy doing her work - funny. She was so diligent sorting the colors and then counting out 10 from each pile. When she put them in the lunch bag, she counted by 10's - 10, 20, 30, etc.
Her teacher has told us Jordan is excellent at math (not surprising to me with her Grandpa being a CPA, her Daddy being an accounting/tax man, her other Grandpa a doctor, her great-Uncle also a CPA, another Great-Uncle a doctor, etc. -- math runs in our family!). It was neat for me to watch her from the kitchen and see she really did understand what she was doing plus she had fun doing her project. Can I only hope they will all be fun for her?! Ha.
Putting them in the various piles.
Jordan practising her sword skills. Jordan use to say she wanted to be a "super ballerina" when she grew up. Well my little girl has changed her mind; she now wants to be a "Musketeer." She got the movie "Barbie and the Three Musketeers" for Christmas. She loves the movie and now is practicing (seriously) all the time.One of the characters, Corinne, is the sword fighting musketeer. She will do a series of cartwheels with her sword and then sword fight with someone hence Jordan practising her cartwheels all the time lately. She has really gotten good at them.
This weekend, Jordan told me she had to have a sword. I scored big time. I found foam swords at Target in the dollar section - yeah Mommy - while shopping. I bought Katelyn and her both swords and they had a blast on Sunday sword fighting. They were running all over the house screaming, chasing each other and having sword battles. Jordan kept trying to teach Katelyn cartwheels as well but I put a stop to that. Katelyn kept landing on her head and scaring me.
Jordan doing cartwheels over her sister with her sword.
