Great Wolf Lodge

So this year instead of a huge birthday party we decided to go to Great Wolf Lodge. Bailey invited her best friend Riley and we all had a great time! The room was adorable with a separate cabin area for the kids, which had their own TV and bunk beds. The waterpark was awesome....the girls just loved it!  

Bailey and Riley, Best Friends! We had a great time with Riley and her mother. We are very lucky to have such great friends to help us celebrate our special times. 

Happy Birthday! Our birthday theme this year was Justin Bieber! His favorite color is purple....which is also Baileys fav color!!! :) 

After we left the water park for the night we went to the arcade! This picture is in the elevator as we are descending into the arcade! Needless to say the girls had a great time playing games. 

The only bummer of the whole thing was that Bailey's asthma was not so good while we were there. So by the end of the day on Saturday this is what she looked like....poor girl couldn't catch a break! 

Happy 6th Birthday!

I can't believe that my little girl is already 6 years old! The time is just flying by! We had a great time this year celebrating Baileys birthday. This was the first year that Bailey spent her birthday at school. Abby and I went to school to have lunch with her and I took treats for her to share with her class. After school we got pedicures and then we went to Dave and Busters for dinner!  

I found this super cute outfit online! I just loved it!

I did let her wear her pink hair to school! :) It was a special occasion! 

Who doesn't need a talking Ken doll??? :) This was just one of the many things she got for her birthday! I do believe that we now own every Littlest Pet Shop that has ever been made!!!!

Bailey and her Papa were playing a little air hockey at Dave and Buster's. She was actually not that bad! 

Mommy loves you Bailey! Happy Birthday to such a wonderful girl! 

One semester down....many more to go

Christmas Break is here and that marks our first semester if Kindergarten! These first few months have been great! Bailey has learned so much in these past months. She has started to read books and she is always sounding out words whenever she sees them. She is writing all the time, everywhere we go she always has a pad of paper and a pencil that she is constantly writing and drawing. It has been so much fun to watch her grow academically. 

I have really enjoyed all the opportunities that I have to volunteer at the school. I love being able to be there to participate in all the special activities they do at the school. I love being able to see Bailey and all her friends at school. Whenever I walk down the hall I always here "Hi Baileys mom" and it makes me smile! I am also the homeroom mother for her class. I planned the Halloween party and the Christmas Party this year and that was a lot of fun for me! 

Unfortunately Bailey has missed a good number of days at school this year due to being sick. We have really had some troubles with her Asthma and she eventually ended up in the hospital for a night. We are still having some troubles with her asthma and her being sick but we are working through it. The school is very supportive and I do my best to work on her schoolwork with her at home on the days that she is absent. Hopefully this all gets better!

We are very excited for the next semester. I know that it is going to be summer break in no time and then we are going to be in First grade! :) She is such a big girl and I love watching her grow up!

Here are a few pics from the past few months....enjoy!

The night that we had to stay in the hospital. :( The people at Children's Mercy were so nice and they treated us so well! 

Bailey's Halloween Party at school. All the kids got to put on their costumes and parade around all the other classrooms. 

While they were parading around I got to set up their tables with treats and goodies. I had special crafts set out that they could do at their table also. 

Bailey was Strawberry Shortcake for Halloween. 

We went on a trip to Ohio for a wedding. Bailey and I had matching sequin outfits! :) I loved them! We had a great time in Ohio.

This was Baileys first School Skating party! She had some friends there and I think that they spent most of the time at the games and not on the rink! Although she was holding onto the side she can skate by herself!

Abby and I like to go up to the school and eat lunch with Bailey as often as we can. She always loves for us to bring her Subway or McDonald's for lunch. While we are there we get to talk with all the kids in Baileys class and they are always hilarious! 

Fall Soccer

Bailey was excited to start soccer again this fall. We have been playing for the last few weekends and Bailey has seemed to improve since last season! She is a lot more aggressive this season! She has already scored a few goals and is just having a blast! I just love that Bailey is involved in so many activities and that I get to watch her learn all these new things. 

I'm pretty proud of the cute polka dot socks that I found on the internet! They are super cute!

It rained the first game of the season! :(

Gymnastics....

Bailey has started her third year in gymnastics again this fall. This year we started at a new gym and so far it has worked out really well. She is learning alot of new things and think by the end of the year she is going to be able to do many new tricks! :) 

She loves this green leotard! She chooses to wear it every week!!!!

First week down.....

Bailey was very excited to ride the bus for the first time. Abby is the one that gets Bailey ready in the mornings and puts her on the bus.... so I Thank her very much for that. The bus stops right in front of our house... which is going to be very nice once it gets colder. It is Baileys choice to ride the bus....so she rides the bus to school every morning and then she only rides it home on Mondays and Wednesdays....Abby picks her up all the other days. I think that she would like to ride the bus all the time but we just hate for her to have to spend all that extra time on the bus after school. 

The rest of the first week of school was great. She claims that she has made friends, although she cannot tell us any of their names! :) She made Clay in art, learned new songs already in music, visited the library and enjoys going to P.E. She seems to be eating the lunch that I am packing her.....lunch was one of my concerns since she is such a picky eater but it seems to be going good. She did tell us that she fell asleep during rest time twice last week...poor girl was worn out! So thats a little run down of her first week.....very very exciting!

Waiting for the school bus!

First day of Kindergarten

This morning was the first day of Kindergarten! Everything went great. She is very excited for school. I think that she didn't really understand that her friends from Pre- K would be there also, just in a different class. Her teachers name is Mrs. Nichols and I have only heard wonderful things from everyone about her. She has been a kindergarten teacher for 23 years at Platte County so she definitely knows what she is doing! Although I was a little sad when I left her there today, I am very excited about the new experiences this journey is going to bring us!