Summer, week 1

We hit the ground running the first week of Summer!  

Alexandra loves to be in the kitchen so we've started having little cooking sessions where she has to read me the recipe, help measure ingredients then finally enjoy the things we make! It's been so much fun. So far we've made strawberry jam, hummus and mini muffins!

We spent the rest of our week going to the library, playing on the slip and slide with friends and going on family bike rides each evening. 

At gymnastics Alexandra received a medal for all of the hard work she's been putting into her advanced class! I can not believe our girl has been doing gymnastics for almost 4 years!

We ended the week by having a sleepover with one of her sweet friends from school. The girls had so much fun running around the backyard with sheets over their shoulders like Elsa capes!

Red, White and Blue

This sweet girl of mine loves everything red, white and blue. I think it's because she knows her birthday falls 5 days after the 4th of July.

This year she helped me make a cute wreath for the door. She asked me months ago if we could make one for her birthday, but she wanted it to look like a flag for July 4th. I love the way it turned out!

I also found cute little popcicle stick flags on Pinterest so after a quick look in our craft closet I found all of the supplies we needed. 

These little flags may be my favorite thing ever. They turned out so cute!

They look adorable in the planters on our porch along with the wreath!

Last Day of School

This, like so many other post, is long over due!  We are 2 weeks into summer and it is already flying. 

Alexandra had such a fabulous kindergarten year! I can't believe how fast it went by. We absolutely loved her teacher, Miss Krueger. I was lucky enough to be able to volunteer in the class room once a week so I was able to get to know each child and really get to know Miss Krueger. 

Alexandra just thrived at school. She is reading well beyond her grade level so I'm making sure we keep reading over the summer. 

Alexandra made so many sweet friends this year. I have just loved all of the kids and parents from her class. We had hopes that her class would loop since several kindergarten classes do that at her school. (Looping is where the kids and teacher stay together from K to first grade so they already have a relationship, the teacher can get right back to teaching since she has first hand knowledge of their levels and they know all of the class rules and expectations.)  Miss Krueger warned us over Christmas break that she and her boyfriend (who loves in Louisiana) were getting serious and looking at their next steps for the future and sure enough, they became engaged this spring. We were so happy for her but a little sad at the fact we knew the class would not be looping with her.  So this summer our beloved Miss Krueger is moving to Louisiana. Happy and sad. 

Knowing she was leaving made the last day of school a little harder. Alexandra was very sad she won't see Miss Krueger next year but we've promised her she can email, text or write her letters any time she wants. 

My girl is excited and a little nervous for 1st grade. She is worried she won't know anyone in her class. I assured her between her 15 other classmates and friends she made in the other 5 kindergarten classes there is a very good chance she will know at least one other person in her class. Now we are just waiting until mid August to see who her teacher will be. Miss Krueger taught 1st grade at our school for 6 years and loves every single 1st grade teacher and said we can't go wrong with any of them so it relaxes this mommys mind a little!

Alexandra and her Miss Krueger