The Jones Girls

If anyone knows Savannah, they should know that Savannah’s show and tell will be Fish.    She HAD to bring her most prized and favorite Nemo.

I wanted her to also think of something else to bring for F.   I suggested flowers.   I took her out with me and we picked flowers from our neighborhood.  I made a beautiful flower bouquet.  

During the show Savannah gave the flower arrangement to her teacher.  Very sweet….

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 I planned a really fun costume parade for the senior citizens at the La Habra Community Center.    

I baked over 70 peanut butter chocolate chip muffins yesterday.  I tell you, this is the easiest recipe and tastes like a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup in a muffin..totally delicious.  I put each muffin in a bag and put a personalized sticker that said Happy Halloween, Hugs from the Jones Bugs.   

It was a difficult morning for me .  I had to get all of the girls in their bug costumes and at the Community Center by 9:30am.  I was 10 minutes late.    There were other moms and kids from the La Habra Moms Club  joining us . 

We were introduced and the kids got a standing ovation from the senior citizens…there were so many smiles, laughter and true cheer beaming from not only our children, but from the senior citizens themselves.     It was so fun!!  I think my girls stole the hearts of everyone…their costumes were truly darling.

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!!

Tonight was Savannah’s school fundraiser at McDonald’s.    The truly neat thing about this was the teachers and principal were helping out in the kitchen cooking the food!!  Savannah’s teacher, Miss Tarbell, was cooking the French fries.    McDonald’s gave 15% of all proceeds of all sales to our school from 4pm-8pm.  Very generous of them!!

Thank goodness Cliff went with me.  There must have been over a hundred people in that restaurant and 50 of them were in the play area.    It was packed!

We were suprised and happy to see Vanessa and her mom with her girls there.   Her girls, Tiffany and Stacey also go to Savannah’s School, El Portal. So we all sat together.

 I ordered Happy Meals for the kiddos and got some food for Cliff and me too.    The girls were no way interested in food…they wanted to PLAY!!  And play they did!!   

We lasted about an hour there and then headed back home,,,with LOTS of uneaten food that was the girls lunch the next day.

Today was Crazy Hat Day at Savannah’s School.  Savannah has this awesome hat that is the shape of a Nemo Fish that we got her from Sea World on her 3rd birthday.  Today was the perfect day to show it off!!  I had gotten Savannah a really cute orange outfit for school that she hadn’t worn yet and it went perfect with her fish hat.

When we rolled up at school, Savannah jumped out of the car and quickly threw her hat off, for fear of embarrassment that she was the only kid in her class wearing a crazy hat.  Then she saw some other kids wearing their crazy hats then she relaxed and I helped her put her fish hat on.  She looked so stinken’ cute lined up for class!!

She was a hit in her class today and all of the kids thought she looked so cool in her fish hat.    Savannah was in her true element…she loves her fish.

Today we went to the Halloween Pumpkin Patch and Carnival at the Puente Hills Mall.    I negotiated a great discount rate with the owner for our La Habra Moms Club…$5 per kid for 5 rides and a free pumpkin.   Normally the prices are $3 per ride per kid and $2 for a pumpkin.  I basically saved $20 for each kid…a good deal for certain.  So all of the La Habra Moms were thrilled to go to this event.

All of my girls had way too much fun.  They went on a ferris wheel for toddlers, a couple of bouncy houses, the swings ride where 2 girls got to sit together for each swing, and feed and pet all sorts of animals at the petting zoo-baby pigs, a baby calf, goats, sheep, chickens, etc.    Then the girls picked out their pumpkins and we took lots of fun pictures with the cute Halloween backdrops around the pumpkin patch.  The weather was a perfect 78 degrees and we all had so much fun.  We will decorate the pumpkins next week at the park with all of our friends.