The Jones Girls

After I dropped Savannah off for school at 8:30am, I went with the triplets to their preschool to help their preschool teacher, Mrs. Drilling, with preparations for closing up her classroom and for the year end party for the preschool kids.

We shared some tears and laughter.   The festivities began!!   The kids were given fun beach buckets full of goodies such as bubbles, water guns and little flash lights and lollipops – totally fun stuff!!

There was a huge bouncy house and all kinds of fun little activity areas.  The kids were divided in groups according to classrooms.    We first got to watch the kids get face painting done.  Then the kids got to draw on the ground with chalk.   Then we got to go “fishing” for goodies.  That was so fun!   Then the kids went bowling.  Then we got to play with the parachute and bounce balls with the parachute.  The kids enjoyed running under the parachute.  Then the kids went to throw balls in the hanging hula hoops.   They were having a blast!!

It was approaching 9:45am and I had to leave to go volunteer at Savannah’s party at school.  I needed to bring the 75 “summertime” cupcakes to her party.   Cliff will pick them up at 11am while I am volunteering at Savannah’s school.

I made the most adorable cupcakes last night for Savannah’s party today!!   I frosted the cupcakes with chocolate frosting, then sprinkled them with brown sugar to resemble sand.  Then I took sticks of gum (kept them in the wrapper) and bent them into the shape of a lounge chair.  Then I put a little piece of candy next to the lounge chair to resemble a beach ball.  Then I put a little umbrella over the lounge chair. Those cupcakes came out adorable.

When I brought the cupcakes to the party, they were a huge hit!!  All of the moms were taking pictures of the cupcakes.   

All of the kids were playing at different stations.   There were water balloon toss.  There was a funny game where the kids had to put a balloon between their legs and run back and forth without dropping the balloon and then when they reached the final destination they had to sit on the balloon to pop it.   Then the kids did a fun game of transferring water from one bucket to the other by soaking a sponge and wringing it out int he empty bucket.   The first team to fill the empty bucket won.     The bean bag toss was a huge hit.  The last station was a water gun game.   The kids had to spray a water gun and move a table tennis ball across the table and the first team won.

After the games, everyone was served hot dogs, chips, fruit and juice boxes.   After lunch my cupcakes were presented and the kids went wild for the cupcakes!!  The LOVED the umbrellas and did cute things like put it in their hair and one kid even put an umbrella on her hot dog bun!  Lots of fun stuff.

After lunch the kids played on the playground and then we all went home.  The teacher gave Savannah a really cute Beach bucket filled with fun stuff like goggles, a lei and other goodies.

Today was the triplets preschool end of year party.  I brought cute little treat boxes filled with the what me and the girls made yesterday -cupcakes and cookie sandwich as well as a souvenir cup with a crazy straw.

I wasn’t able to go to the party because I was at Savannah’s award ceremony.  When I picked the triplets up at 12pm noon, they were so excited about their party and showed me all of the fun goodies they got.   I received huge bags of all of the crafts as well as the Father’s Day craft project that they made for Daddy.

A couple of weeks ago I received a note from the school for us to attend Savannah’s school, El Portal’s, award ceremony.

So I dropped Daddy Cliff and Savannah off at school at 8:15am (she is an early bird all week…ugh!) and then I dropped the triplets at early morning day care at 8:30am (they normally begin at 9am but they offer early morning care beforehand for $2.50 per child per half hour – very convenient – YIPEE!!)..

The award ceremony started at 8:45am.  Cliff and I settled in our seats.    They began presenting the awards.   The VIP Student of the Year award for Miss Tarbell Kindergarten class was awarded to Savannah!!     What a huge and proud moment to hear our little daughter got that award.  We tood hundreds of pictures.  She also got the CARE award too.   

I am so proud of you Savannah!!  You have done exceptionally well in Kindy and you have made us so proud of you!!   We love you!! xoxoxo

Today is the last day of the school year for Maryssa’s speech class.  She will continue again in September and will go Monday and Fridays.

Today we brought her Speech teacher, Miss Shelly Marker, the baked cupcakes and cookies that we had decorated the night before when I babysat Corrie’s kids.    We also brought her a little vegetable garden that we had planted with seedlings with a little note that says “Thank you for helping me grow”.   We gave her a Thank you card with a $5 Panera Bread gift certificate in it.

Maryssa got to pick a prize from the treasure box.  She had a fun day today at speech.

 When we got home, my brother, Rob, showed up to help me prepare the Arabic food for tomorrow’s party.  He was such a huge help!

Feli, previously our nanny who now comes once a week to tidy the house for a few hours, came over to tidy things up for me in preparation for tomorrow’s party.

Then Rob and I went out to dinner and had sushi and went for a nice walk in the neighborhood.   

It was a nice day!!

The triplets preschool had their open house tonight.   They had a bake sale fundraiser and I donated rice crispy treats with cute Nemo rings on them.   They were also serving tacos and quesadillas for dinner as a fundraiser.

We visited the classroom at about 7pm.   The room was decorated with all of the kids’ artwork in the theme of a carnival.   It was so fun to see the triplets crafts and artwork all around the room.  There were 2 other sets of twins, their mothers are friends of mine.   One of the twins’ mommies gave birth to her twins the day before I gave birth to the triplets and her room was next door to my room in the hospital.   So her twins birthday is August 10th.  She remembers me giving birth on August 11th because her dr., Dr. Rocca could not release her because he was in the OR doing my C-Section!!

I bought some yummy goodies from the bake sale and some tacos and quesedillas for all of us.   It was a cold night and perfect for the baked goods to comfort everyone.

This morning I got up at 8am and had to rush around to get the triplets ready for preschool and Savannah ready to take with me to the La Habra Moms  Club meeting at 9:15am.    

Also, today I had planned a really fun snack for the kids.  They are going to make their own pizzas!!  I brought in English muffins, pizza sauce, shredded mozzarella and pepperoni.   The kids were totally ecstatic about the whole fun activity!!

I made it to the meeting a little late and very exhausted.  I forgot to bring the activities calendar for May, but I figured they would understand with the idea that I had just gotten out of the hospital.    I felt like I was running on 2 valves.

Then I took the girls to swimming lessons at 3:30pm.  Lots of work changing them into their bathing suits and then afterwards helping them get dressed in their clothes.

I was supposed to go to a Multiple Moms Night out tonight, but there is no possible way I can do it.  I am too wiped out.  Feel a little sore in the lower back today.  I hope I don’t have anymore attacks….

Today was our turn to bring snacks into the preschool class.  I have 3 snack days in a row for the triplets.    Also with the snack day, the child gets to bring in a share toy and be line leader.  Today was Miranda’s share day.  She brought in Minnie Mouse of course.

This morning I woke up at 6am to make the Mickey Mouse pancakes which would be for the snack today.    I made a dozen of them.  I also brought in whipping cream, raisins, and maple syrup so the kids could decorate their Mickey Mouse pancakes.  They had a blast!!

I love being creative for the kids’ snacks.