The Jones Girls

There is a library right next to the YMCA.  The Whittier Libarary.   So I took the girls for their very first time to visit a public library.  I had to go over with them about being very quiet and using their “inside” voices.

They were amazed at all of the books in the kids section!    We went to the Easy reading area for Savannah.  She chose a really cute book about animals and I will have her read it to me.  She is becoming quite the little reader.

They also rent out DVD movies for $1.  We picked out Bambi II and we are going to watch it tonight.  Miranda didn’t want to let go of the DVD and she said it was hers.  She fell in love with the movie.

We will go to the library every Tuesday and Thursday to check out books and once a week we will check out a DVD.     I am going t look into the summer reading program for Savannah.

I arranged to have the kiddos and moms of the La Habra Moms club to enjoy a tour of the restaurant, kitchen and make their own tacos.

The manager John, was very accomodating!!    He explained the history of the restaurant.  It was originally a house and part of the restaurant was actually party of the house and he pointed certain characteristics to prove it.    I was so impressed when we toured their kitchen!!   Hands down, their kitchen is the CLEANEST kitchen I have ever seen at any restaurant, and I will tell you, this past year we have done at least 6 restaurant tours of their kitchens.    You could eat off of their kitchen floor!!    

The kids made their tacos in the kitchen and then we were all guided to our party room on the patio.  It looked so festive!!  Their were balloons tied with cute yellow duckies all over the place!!   The kids were give cute sippy cups with their choice of beverage.   The moms ordered off of the menu.  I had a coupon which was great!!   

The kids got ice cream for dessert.   The final suprise was each kid got to pick out a prize from the restaurant’s special toy chest!!

We all had a wonderful time.

Boy this is going to be a very busy Valentine’s season for us this week!

I organized a Children’s Valentine’s party for the La Habra Moms Club at Red Robin.   All of the kids get to make and decorate their own sundaes and do a Valentine’s exchange.  

The girls brought goody bags with Littlest Pet Shop Valentines, Valentine’s pencils with cute boa feathers on the end and cute heart shaped erasers.    They were so cute!!

There were about 28 kids at the party today and about 15 moms,  It was a big party..woo hoo!!

Today Savannah was off of school in observance of Lincoln’s Birthday.  So today I planned a fun day for the girls at La Brea Tarpits.

I negotiated a discount group rate for La Habra Moms Club.   About 12 other children and 6 other moms joined us.  It was a lot of fun.

The girls got to see skeletons of saber tooth tigers, mammoth elephant, and all sorts of different prehistoric animals.    We saw a very interesting educational film about the theory of how the prehistoric animals got stuck in 4 inches of tar and how they ceased because they couldn’t get themselves out of the tar because it was so sticky.  We also saw a real excavation in action!  It was about 20 feet deep and they had an observation deck.

Afterwards, my friend Corrie and her kids came over for lunch and a play date.  It was a fun day!

Today my little girls swam kicking their arms and leg about 5 feet  from the wall of the swimming pool to their swimming teacher, Miss Gail.

They are all wearing foam floating device that strap around their waist to make sure they don’t sink and teach them how to float, swim and stay upright.

I was so proud with joy to see my girls swimming for the first time.   Look out Soak City Water Park, here we come!!

Today was a big day for our Daisy Troop – it was our Investiture Ceremony which formally announces that the girls have become Daisy Girl Scouts.  All of the girls wore their Daisy Crowns that we made together in last week’s meeting.

We had many parents and guests attend the ceremony.    As I read what each daisy petal represented for the Daisy Girl Scout, each girl brought a petal of the daisy up to the felt board to make a complete Daisy.

Each girl said their girl scout promise and then was presented with their Daisy smock that had their 1st patch and Girl Scout medallion on it.

We finished the ceremony with everyone standing in a circle and doing the Girl Scout Friendship squeeze.

Then we had cookies and lemonade and took lots of pictures.   What a wonderful day it was. 

Savannah, my sweetheart, congratulations for becoming a Daisy.  I am so proud of you!!

Today we went to a friend’s birthday party, Daniel who is turning 6.    The party was at John’s Pizza in Buena Park which located adjacent to Knotts Berry Farm.

The parking was unbelievable that day.   We had to park a long distance away from the venue.    I was so proud of the girls.  We all held hands and walked through the busy parking lot then into the mall, into an elevator and then sifted through the hundred’s of people to enter John’s Pizza.

This place is like Disneyland on steroids.   There was an hour long wait for people to get into the place.    Thankfully we were attending a private party so we got to go into the side door.   Then we had to wait in a long line to check in.   This was our entry into the land of total chaos and unruliness.

We had to pass by the buffet stations where people were clamored around pizza, pasta, and salad stations filling up their plates as quickly as they could.   I saw little 2 year old toddlers walking around with ice cream cones with sprinkles on them, the ice cream smeared all over their faces, dripping on their clothes and on the floor.    The parents were letting their kids run around like wild banshees.    It was really disturbing and gross to look at.

I found the private room where the party was.   We greeted Daniel and his sweet Momma, Liz, gave us cute ID necklaces that said we were attending Daniel’s 6th Birthday Party.  Now I was impressed.   This is how all of the other parents in this place should do with their kids.  I mean, there must have been over 500 people in the whole place!!

We saw some friends and sat together at their table.  I left the girls with their little friends and braved the storm of hundreds of people to get to the buffet tables and trudge through the lines of people to get back to my girls.  I felt like I was a penguin trying to bring her little fishie food to her little baby penguins!  It was just a mad house.

The “clean” forks and spoons had caked on food on them.    I was grossed out.    I had to go get more silverware.     The food was your typical tasting buffet food.

But to be honest with you, we were very grateful and happy to be celebrating Daniel’s birthday.  We would have been just as happy celebrating anywhere, but this was the place where the party was, and we were happy to be there celebrating with him!!

We sang happy birthday while he blew out candles on 2 cakes.   That tells you how many people were at this party…over 100 people!!   His momma Liz is so amazing and she loves her little boy Daniel so much.  She put so much energy and love into his birthday and I just respect and love her so much for being the best parent for Daniel. 

Liz is the president of our La Habra Moms club.   She spent a lot of effort, time and  money for each person to attend this party, and she was so generous in inviting some of us from the club to Daniel’s birthday party.  She is an amazing women and I love her dearly.  She is my sister mom!!

After we ate the cake, Liz passed out the most amazing Mario themed goodie boxes filled to the brim with the BEST candy ever.  Then she gave all of the kids special passes which can be used in the game room to do bumper car rides, play video games and do all sorts of fun things.  The game room was the highlight of John’s Pizza.

 Everyone adjourned from the party room and went to the game room to have a blast.  Since I was by myself with the girls, I was too intimidated to take them in the game room among I would say at least over 200 people in the game room.    I decided we would come back another time during the week when it was slower and have fun in the game room. 

Happy 6th Birthday Sweet Daniel!! xoxoxo