The Jones Girls

After we left Michelle’s Bakery, we ran home to change and get ready for Savannah’s school Christmas performance.  It was a chilly night so we all bundled up.  Rosanne joined us.

I was so excited!  This was our little girl’s first school performance and I could wait.    It was a wonderful performance and production.

The Kindy Kids stole the hearts of everyone and was the favorite hands down.  Savannah and all of the Kindy Kids wore their cute PJ’s and brought a Teddy Bear.  This was the them for what they sang..  “Me and   Bear” and “Santa Clause is coming to town”.

The PTA had a beautiful table of all sorts of delicious goodies along with hot chocolate, coffee and even mistletoe for sale!!    We bought some stuff…of course we wanted to contribute to the PTA.

I organized a fun cupcake decorating event at Michelle’s Bakery for La Habra Moms club.  We had a huge turnout and about 45 showed up!!    My sister Rosanne came with us to join in the fun. 

Michelle’s Bakery was so gracious to us.  They had a private room set up with tables full of all kinds of decorations, icings, chocolates, etc.   We each got a cupcake kit and all of us had a blast decorating our cupcakes.   Each table had an attendant to help us.  There were candy canes and chocolates for us to enjoy while we were decorating at each table.

They had cocoa and coffee for all of us as well.  What a wonderful experience!!

I am doing flash cards with Savannah to help her learn to spell and sound out letters and words.    Tonight I video taped her reading her flash card words.   This was the first time I presented these word flash cards to her.   She can read 2o words now.   She is also sounding out words and learning how to read words such as my, by, see, etc.  This is what she can read now:

White
Brown
Pink
Red
Purple
Yellow
Orange
Gray
Blue
Black
Green
The
Am
We
Have
Is
Little
I
A
To

Maryssa is pigeon toed.    Her pediatrician referred her to an orthopedic doctor.  We met with him today.  

He evaulated her and said her knees and ankles are straight and the hps are causing the legs to move inward causing the pigeon toe.  He said that babies that are born from a mutliple birth can result in hip displasia.  Hip displasia is when then hips form outside of the sockets and require surgery to correct.  He took Xrays to check her hips.   Thank goodness the Xrays showed no hip displasia.

 He said in the old days they used to use braces and special inserts in the shoes.   They have done studies which show that they braces and special shoes don’t help.    So no braces or special shoes for Maryssa.   He said she will hopefully grow out of it but if she is still pigeon toed she will learn to  acclimate herself to it.

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.