The Jones Girls

Today we went on a tour of Armstrong Garden Center that I organized with my La Habra Moms Club.   At first, they forgot about our tour, but then a really nice man came to give us the tour.

There were beautiful zen-like koi ponds with water fountains, bamboo and banzai trees.   He showed the kids lemon trees with little flowers and budding lemons.    Then we went over to the flowers and vegetable plants.    He then surprised the kids and let them each pick out a 4 inch flowering pot!!    What a pleasant surprise.  The girls picked out the most beautiful flowers that we will plant in our front yard garden.  We also picked out a strawberry plant and , a cherry tomato plant, and a squash plant.  Savannah wanted to pick out some seeds and she got sunflower seeds and I got some cucmber and eggplant seeds.

It was a beautiful sunny day and perfect for our tour!!

Yesterday I baked a bundt cake with a cream cheese coconut center.   Today I frosted it and decorated it.  It came out really cute.  This is for today’s cake walk at the Spring Fling Carnival at Savannah’s school.  I also brought in cupcakes too.

Savannah had to get to school early today, at 8:00am.   Today is her field trip at Centennial Farms.   I didn’t win the drawing, but 2 mothers that do a ton of volunteering in the Kindy classroom won and I feel that they really deserved it.   Savannah was excited to go on the big yellow school bus.  

We had a rough start getting her ready for school though.  Savannah was all dressed and I have her a cup of milk to drink with breakfast.  Amanda had accidently bumped her cup, causing the milk to spill all over Savannah’s outfit that she had picked out the night before to wear to the farm today.  Let’s just say it didn’t go down well this morning.   Anyway, with a lot of disagreements, I finally got Savannah to wear something else.   We hightailed it to school.  I made her a special cheeseburger with Dorito chips and a juice box in a brown bag for her lunch today.   She loves her cheeseburgers.  I watched as she proudly marched with all of the other Kindy kids to the school bus.  They were all wearing cute blue sun visors given to them for their field trip.    She stepped up into the bus.  In my heart these steps were huge…steps from my little girl growing into a big girl.    I had a little tear at the corner of my eye…((sigh))

I purchased wrist bracelets for trhe girls to use for unlimited access to game booths and jumpy houses.  It should be a lot of fun!!

This morning the girls and I began cleaning out the front yard garden.   I am ashamed to say that I had fake flowers in our garden.    Even worse, they were faded and really ugly.    It took over an hour to clean up the garden.

This was the girls first time gardening and planting flowers in our front yard.  I showed them how to dig a hole in the ground, then place the flower in the hold, then cover the hold with dirt.   We planted about 12 flowers.  It looks so pretty!!

Then a few hours later, my right abdomen and right rear back was hurting,,,really bad.   It became waves of unbearable pain…worse than child labor pains.    I threw up, the pain was so bad.  I worked through it for about 5 hours and then it subsided.   Ugh…this was a horrible kidney stone causing me ugly pain…

This afternoon I took Savannah to her friend, Brooklyn’s 6th birthday.  It was a really fun carnival theme.   

Then, Savannah and I met Cliff and the triplets at Home Depot. The girls picked out flowers to plant in our front yard garden for tomorrow which is my Mother’s Day present.   Savannah picked out some pretty pink trumpet flowers.   Amanda picked out pretty little red flowers, Maryssa picked out pretty white lace flowers, and Miranda picket out pretty little pink flowers.

I drove the triplets home and Cliff took Savvy on an errand.    

After we got home, Cliff and Savvy showed up a while later with a HUGE flower arrangement and a really nice Mother’s Day card.  What a nice suprise!!

Savannah’s class will be doing a field trip next Friday at Centennial Farms in Irvine.   They want 2 parents to volunteer.    Usually many parents like to do this field trip so they do a drawing with all of the parents names (who have been livescanend) who want to go on the field trip.

So, today I got livescanned so my name could be put in the drawing.   I had to pick up paperwork from the school and take it down to this place where they do the livescan.   The state charges a fee of $30 and the livescan place charges $20..so it is pricey.  Luckily, I found out the school district picks up the tab for the livescan fee…woohoo!!   I had to fill out an application and get all sorts of finger and hand prints done today.

I was told that I only need to do the livescan once and it will be good for all fo the girls at school should I want to do any fieldtrips or anything that requires a safety clearance by the school.

After I dropped the triplets off to preschool, I took Savannah to school and then surprised her by volunteering in her class today!!    She was blown away.

Today I sat with her group of “yellow apples” There are groups of 6 kids that are different colored apples..red apples, yellow apples, blue apples, etc.  

The teacher asked me to help the kids with an art project that required tracing, cutting, and gulp….PAINTING.   I have to tell you, I am horrible with paint.   I get it everywhere else except where the paint was supposed to go.

The paint colors were brown and red.    It was a very messy job.    The kids dipped sponges in the paint to paint their art projects.    The art projects came out really cute..they were hens with little skirts and hats.   

I was so proud to volunteer today. It was so much fun seeing Savannah at recess and watching her interact with her classmates and friends.

I can’t believe the homework Savannah has been bringing home this week!    I thought it was totally amazing that they were learning to do addition in mathematics in Kindy.

Well, guess what…they are now subtracting!!  Yep, Savannah is doing subtraction.     She totally understands it.    I use the term “take away”.   How I do it is 5-2=3…take a group of 5 cheerios and take away 2 cheerios, how many are left?  She quickly got the concept down.   She is now using her fingers. 

She can add numbers in her head and she is beginning to memorize easy addition like 1+1=2, 2+2=4, etc.    She is such a smart cookie!!