First Parent/Teacher Conference

...or parent, teacher, student conference. Yes, V had to come to the meeting too. It is the parent/teacher conference of the new era. Overall it went well. Victoria is doing well and making a lot of improvement. She is really good at patterns which is the base for multiple things including reading and math. She does need to work on counting and sight words. She needs to know 39 sight words before the end of kindergarten and she already knows about half. Her teacher did mention that V doesn't really like to eat lunch. A lot of time she eats it on the way home. I think she just isn't hungry. That being said we did make a trip to the store on the way home to pick out some different things for her. We'll see if she eats.
Eddie and I are very proud of her. She is a smart, funny, beautiful, sassy, strong girl and we love her more than anything in the world.

Mama's Birthday

So today is my birthday and anyone who knows me knows how much I LOVE my birthday. No matter how old I get I will always be a kid on October 19th. Victoria helped me celebrate and we had a very good day! My Mom and her dog Wyatt and Melissa and Sammie came over. It was a nice celebration.

Hello Kitty Shine Star

Victoria has decided she does not like her name and wants to change it. It doesn't understand why Eddie and I picked the name Victoria and has asked us to call her Hello Kitty Shine Star. So there you have it...I told her when she is 18 she can go and have it legally changed. Her response was...fine, but please call me Hello Kitty until then.

It's finally fall in Arizona

Today, October 5th, we finally turned off the air conditioner. It was a beautiful day! It was so nice to open the house and get some fresh air. It has cooled to the mid 80s. It is actually kinda chilly, well chilly when you are used to 100 plus degrees. But it is days like today that remind us why we moved here, remind us why we deal with the hot summer.

Now that we only have Stella we are able to go to the dog park. We found a park, Friendship Park, that is huge and has a dog park as well as a park for V to play on. Stella found some mud to lay in...

We had such a nice time!

Hiccups

One of V's very cute quirks is that when she laughs very hard she gets the hiccups. Every time. And she really hasn't ever gotten them except when she laughs hard. Well yesterday for no reason whatsoever she got the hiccups. And then she got them again a couple of hours later. She was getting really frustrated and said..."what the heck is going on? I haven't even been laughing." I found this so funny because it is sometihng she jsut picked up on. I never said hey, every time you laugh you get the hiccups. She just picks up on things...