The Jones Girls

This week is Parent Teacher Conference at Savannah’s school.    This means all of the kids get out of school early all week long and they get Friday off.    Savannah’s late bird class has been moved to early bird and that has been a real pain.  Friday I took all of the girls to Disneyland and we had lots of fun!!

I met with Savannah’s teacher today.    Savannah knows all of her alphabet by site and sound.    She knows most of her shapes except for cylinder, rectangle and cone.  I will work with her on those shapes.    She can count to 26 and she will be required to count to 30 by the end of Kindy so I would say she is doing great with her numbers seeing that she has only been in school for a couple of months now.

Savannah knows how to spell and read most “word” colors.     She also knows her colors by sight too.

The teacher says she is doing great in school and to keep up the good work!!  I am so proud of my sweet little Kindergartner!!

I try not to bother too many people about Savannah’s school fundraisers, especially with this terrible economy.

However, our school is doing this really cool fundraiser with See’s Candy.  When I think of See’s Candy, I know of 2 people who are devoted fans of the yummy stuff…my mom and my sister Rosanne.

The fundraiser will raise money for the art program for Savannah’s school.   It enriches their music and choir program as well as liberal arts.    School funding has taken this away from the kids so it is up to PTA and us parents to raise the money.   

The candy orders have to be turned in by Nov. 10th and the candy is delivered to us on November 24th.   I remembered Rosanne is coming down here for a few days to visit during this time and I asked her if she would be interested in purchasing some candy.  She could have it when she arrives down here.

I sent her pamphlet of the list of candy products for sale.   She gave it to mom to look at.    Low and behold, God Bless their hearts, they provided orders from about 8 people and they also ordered themselves.     They purchased about $180 in candy.  Thank you so much Mom and Rosanne for opening up your hearts and helping Savannah’s school.   We truly appreciate it.

Love you xoxoxoxo

I picked up Savannah from school today.  She proudly showed me a pink button pinned on her shirt.   She smiled and said she got an award for having perfect attendance at school.    I hope she can continue the trend.  I would love her to have a perfect
attendance by the end of the year.   

Way to go Savannah!!   She is really doing great in school and making friends such as Tess, Lauren, Emily and Summer.  Summer can be a bit mean and tells Savannah she can’t be her friend sometimes.   I think I am going to talk to Summer’s teach about it…this needs to be mentioned to Summer’s mom, I think.

I have to say the city of La Habra had the cutest bugs for Halloween!!  Savannah was the queen bee, Amanda was a butterfly, Miranda was a bumble bee and Maryssa was a lady bug.  I made all of their costumes.  They had cute too too’s.   They looked so cute!!

We took them trick or treating in the neighborhood at about 6:00pm.    I went with them for about 20 minutes than I ran home to give out candy.  They were with daddy and got back at about 7:30.   They came back with boat loads of candy!!

I would say we had about 120 trick or treaters visit our house.    There were some awesome costumes.  Some teenagers came to the door and one of the girls was a pick and was holding a shot.  She said she was “Swine Flu”.  I cracked up and had to take a picture of her.  Too funny!!

Today was Savannah’s costume parade at school. She was so excited to wear her costume to school.   The school parade started at 10:30am, just 20 minutes after I dropped her off to school.  

I didn’t have time to dress up the triplets so I dressed them up in the car the 20 minutes before the costume parade started.

The Farina’s parked beside us.  They were their to see their 2nd grade twins in the costume parade, they were Fairy and the Frog characters.

I think the triplets got more attention than the costume parade did.   No one at our school have seen triplets before so it was fun!!   Thanksfully everyone moved their attention to their kids in their costumes.    Savannah’s Kindy class was the first class in the parade.  All of us waived and said Hi to Savannah.  She had so much fun.  I took lots of pictures of the parade and  of  Savannah with her classmates.   I also took pictures of my girls with the Farina girls in their costumes. 

It was a lot of fun!!

Savannah’s upper right front tooth has been loose for a while now.   Today she announced that it HAD to come out today.   So, she went to Daddy and asked him to help her and watch her pull it out.   A few minutes later she came to me with her toothless grin.   I was so proud of her.

As I gazed down at her tooth, I got an aching feeling in my stomach that this was one more reminder that my baby is no longer a baby anymore.  

We took some pictures of her. She kept telling me that she tasted the blood and it tasted salty…LOL!

Today was Crazy Hair day.   I am so happy that Savannah got to finally show off her cute plush Minnie Mouse Ear Hair Clips that I got her from Disneyland.    These ears are about 3 inches round and clip onto her hair and it looks like she is wearing real Minnie mouse ears, minus the hat.   So cute!!