Fun Days!

Lily has been having a lot of fun this fall!  This past Friday, Lily went to work with me, since Maryland schools were closed to students due to the MSTA convention.  Anyway on our way to an appt. Lily and I stopped briefly into an Old Navy.  While there Lily had to use the restroom.  I figured while she was using the bathroom, it would be a perfect opportunity to try on some of the t-shirts I had grabbed from the clearance shelf.  Many of them had the Old Navy logo on them.  As I am trying them on, Lily says to me, "Mommy does that say, Old Lady?".  LOL.  The things that come out of kid's mouths!

In other news, we had a super fun weekend with our friends the Murphy's and the Henry's.  We did Graver Farm on Saturday and today we did Lily's 1st ever 5K.  The Color Run down in National Harbor!  What a blast it was.  Even Ashton participated as I ran, walked, and jogged with him in the stroller!  Lily did really well!  The race just flew by!  You didn't even realize you were going 3.2 miles.  Towards the end, Lily started to complain about her leg hurting, so she rode in the stroller with Ashton for about 1/4 mile and then she was recovered and ready to run. 

The pictures at the end really tell the story!  I absolutely love them!

High Flyer

Last night we had Lily's parent-teacher conference with her 1st grade teacher Ms. Riner.  Ms. Riner describes Lily as her angel and one of her high flyers!  Academically she is doing very well.  She is reading on level 14, which puts her about 3 quarters ahead of her grade level.  In Math, she can count up to 110 without errors, even though she only has to be able to count up to 70 to be on grade level.  She appears to love school and is doing well socially as well!  Her teacher did report that she had to move Lily's seat because she was such a social butterfly but that she has lots of friends and seems to interact very well with her peers.  She asked us to work on Lily's writing (placing letters on the line properly) and spelling stretching and sounding out words to spell)  as she knows Lily can do it, she just needs some coaching/encouragement to take the time to do it correctly.  Needless to say, we are super proud of our HIGH FLYER!!!!!  Way to go Lily.  You make your mommy and daddy super proud!

Always the fashionista

Lily definitely has her own sense of style.  The more colorful the ensemble the better.  Plus add patterns and texture and you've got yourself a true fashionista.  Last week she got all dolled up for church, complete with a pink frilly skirt, pink Hello Kitty polka-dotted shirt, red sparkly shoes, a red pink, and brown circular pattern Fedora hat, and to top it all off, pink butterfly wings, and her fashion sticker portfolio.  Today's outfit was a true standout!  Again her pink Hello Kitty polka-dotted shirt, yellow skort, rainbow leggings, and multi-colored black sparkle Sketchers shoes.  Apparently, she topped off her outfit with her beautiful Guatemalan camouflage-like jacket!

Super Swimmer in the House

So proud of our Lily Bean...she started the FAST pre-comp swim team tonight...while I wasn't there to see it, Olav reported she swam across the pool from the 3 feet to the 9 feet 2 times without any assistance. So proud! These are the moments I wish I could share with her birth family!

Lily's 1st fish!

 

Today was a fun special day.  We went to Greenbrier State Park to meet with some dear friends.  While there I received a text from our neighbors Jimmy and Cindy Trout.  The text read "We see you on the beach."  Jimmy and Cindy were out in the water on their boat fishing.  They invited Lily out to hang out on the boat with them.  Apparently they had been out their fishing for 2 hours and had caught practically nothing.  Lily came aboard and all of sudden they were catching large mouth bass left and right!  Lily had such a great time, she didn't want to come off the boat!  What an awesome day!

1st grader in the house!

Today Lily began 1st grade!  So hard to believe!  Of course as usual she had pre-picked her new outfit, however once on, she decided it was too large and opted for one of her more tried and true skort and t-shirts.  She has Mrs. Riner and she reported having a good day.

 

 Mrs. Riner even gave her a lollipop!  (Which I have learned any person who gives Lily a treat (i.e. popsicle, lollipop etc) automatically is a winner!  Lily loved gymnastics camp because they gave her a popsicle.  Lily loved art camp because they gave her a popsicle.  Lily disliked soccer camp...why....no popsicle.  So things are starting off on the right foot!

So proud!

So proud of our lily pad!  She just adores swimming!  Tonight with the help of her swim instructor she swam all the way across the teaching pool, twice!  Proud mama moment!