Category: Chloe (Page 3 of 20)

Ever since Chloe started school she has begged me to volunteer to come along on a school field trip.  Unfortunately, with my teaching schedule combined with Tim’s work schedule and having Josiah and Maddie, it’s never worked out.  So after 2 1/2 years of asking I was finally able to say YES to help as a parent volunteer in Chloe’s class.  It’s hard to tell in the picture, but she was OVER THE MOON excited.  In fact she’s been counting down the days.  And when I showed up at class today a whole bunch of the kids already knew who I was–which I can only assume was because Chloe had been talking about it.  😉

All of the first grade classes went together to the Old Log Theater to see the play Cinderella.  It was a fun field trip and an extremely well done play.  The only part I wasn’t a huge fan of was the bus ride.  It’s so loud.  I’m not a fan of loud.  But on the way home I was able to entertain the 6 kids around me by making paper finger thingys (yes that’s my technical term).

Here is a piano song that Chloe wanted to share with Nana.  She’s been working on this one for a few months now and it’s her favorite.  (She especially loves to play it at triple speed as she passes by the piano every now and then…)

A few interesting details about the video:

• Sorry I shake like crazy as I move positions in the middle.  I thought it would be fun to see her using the pedal…
• This is before school–the time she has to practice every day–which is why it’s still dark
• This song is on our piano contest list this year for 7-8 year olds
• Yes, I make her turn her own page in the middle. Ha!
• This was the 2nd recording of the video this morning.  The first time she didn’t curve her fingers well enough… 😉

Can you believe we have school pictures on the 3rd day of school?  Yup.  We must be the first school in the district to have pictures taken.  I actually really like it because all the kids are still wearing their nice “back to school” clothes, so you won’t stand out if you want to dress up for picture day.  Plus all the back to school haircuts are still fresh.  And the first week of school we’re all still very excited about getting ready so it’s not a challenge to take a little extra time for a shower and doing her hair.  See?  It’s a win-win!

This year I went online to order pictures.  There are SO MANY options of backgrounds and styles.  Didn’t there used to be only one option?  Okay, maybe two.  But still… I think I had over 40 background options!  It was a little overwhelming… We’ll see how they turn out.  I’m excited!

Well, even though our pictures are happy and cute, this is how she really felt…

I’m not sure why, but getting on the bus this morning seemed to be harder on Chloe than last year (for Kindergarten).  She was outright crying as she got on the bus.  I felt bad.  🙁  But I know it’s just nervous energy, and that once she gets to school and starts doing stuff again she’ll like it.  I’m sure there are a lot of kids who are anxious about today.  But it still doesn’t help my feeling terrible as she waved through the window with tears streaming down her face.

Plus she was up twice last night with bad dreams.  We finally let  her sleep on our floor.  This is going to be a tough day for her.

The wonderful thing, though, was that Tim was able to come with us down to the bus stop this morning.  She really liked that.  My girl is so big is so many ways, and yet so little still.  🙂

Today we celebrated Chloe’s golden birthday!

7 years old.  Crazy!

She got to have Kailynn over last night for a sleepover.  Today we made fancy pancakes (with coolwhip and sprinkles!), I took the girls to the Minion movie this morning (very fun!), we made personal size pizzas for lunch, frosted crazy red and purple cupcakes, played pin the tail on the donkey and enjoyed our last day of summer.  School starts tomorrow so back to the routine!