kinderqueen

I'm so excited for Lili, her name finally came up last Friday for Queen of the Week. Basically this little person is the teachers helper for the week and gets focused to learn more about. The entire class learns to spell their name, draws a portrait of them, she gets to bring show and tell each day and she gets to make a poster about herself (by the way she says she wants to be veterinarian now), her favorite things and about her family. At the end of her reign the entire class does a cheer spelling her name and it just seems like it makes them each feel so very special.
Monday, she took her tiger Rajah and said the class was amazed how it growled and moved. She was proud to say that the person that liked it the most was her teacher, Mrs. S. and to top it all off it was her turn to bring snacks so she took green sugared shamrock cookies from the bakery.
Tuesday, she took her tiger & cub figurines. They asked her lots of questions about what other animals she had. So many the teacher let Lili decide whose questions she would answer.
Wednesday, she's was mad there was no school for PM Kindergarteners, but since she came with a bad cold its a good thing she was home.
Thursday, she was still pretty sick but insisted she HAD to go, she couldn't miss a day of being queen AND the kids were able to bring a teddy bear to school today and there was no way she was wanting to miss that. She showed her Air Force bear she won at the DaddyDDance. She said everyone said he was really cool and all the boys wanted him.
Friday I was there to volunteer and it looks like Lili got her wish to stay on til Monday at least. I got to see her do the calendar and show her cat, but it was a fast and busy day.
Monday I asked her teacher if I could come in the few minutes before class end to catch the cheer, it was cool. I wondered if any other parents have known about this and gotten to see it.

Ariana's Play

Ariana is in her school play. She even got to be one the cowgirls as she had hoped for. She has been going to rehearsals every week since January and the time has finally come. This week has been busy with dress rehearsals and lots of practice. She has explained that the show is a collaboration of lots of different plays put together as some type of more of a musical show..but that her songs she is in are from Oklahoma. Its all very hush hush as a surprise for parents, family and schoolmates. The first run is for the school on Thursday morning. Its exciting because they use a high school's Performing Arts Center and that first show will be a field trip for the whole elementary school. It hasn't been fun going across town every day for rehearsals on mommy's part, but the Center is really nice (its actually the same place they had their dance recitals).
Thursday is opening night, and Lili, Mitch and I will see it together. We are excited to see the big surprise.

We saw the play all three times! It was really impressive, they did an amazing job! Ariana even had a little solo in her group's song and she did great! The best part was how much fun they seemed to be having. It looked like a blast. It sucked that no cameras or video were allowed, because of course they'll be selling photos and videos. These are a few pictures of everybody in their show t-shirts.

spring ahead

This weekend is Mitch's last chance to get in as much studying as physically possible before he tests on Tuesday the 10th. He's been working really hard towards it and has even taken time off to get in more time to study.
I got the girls out the house by 11:30 this morning and we stayed out til like 5:30, trying to give him a quiet house. We had fun! Ari had a short play rehearsal, so Lili and I hung out nearby at Kmart, then we picked her up and went towards Olympia. We went downtown to check out the toy shop we had seen. It was very cool and we were in there for what felt like hours. Even I was down on the floor playing and getting into EVERYTHING! Lili picked out tiger & cub figurines and Ari picked out a lioness & cub. I couldn't believe how cool the little store was-it was actually hard to leave-and I NEVER feel that way about toy stores. We were especially lucky that the bad weather had the store nice and not so busy. Next, we stopped and got them Happy Meals cuz they're big into the little pet shop toys that are in them right now ;) then we hung out at the mall for a while. We got smoothies, we spent a little time at the playing, climbing thing and I scanned a few stores that I'd like to explore when they maybe aren't with me, they get bored so understandably easy.
Since I realize we were gone so long, I'm surprisingly proud that I didn't really spend hardly anything today. I'm glad to have worn the girls out so that they had no problem getting to sleep with rush to bed for the clock's spring ahead.