After we got back from vacation (and potty training Nellie!) the girls spent a couple of days with dad and then had their first day of school. This year Mila is in the lime room, which is like Pre-K or Jr. Kindergarten. With September 1st being the cutoff for Kindergarten we had the option to keep Mila in preschool or to enroll her in TK through the HB school system. We decided to keep her in preschool because the TK curriculum is the same as the preschool Violet room, which Mila was in last year. I'm looking forward to having them at the same school again for one more year and for Mila to continue learning so much. She is such an eager learner, I don't want her to lose that excitement.
Nellie is now in the Navy room, along with her best friend Ariah (that's what she calls her, "my best friend Ariah"!), and she couldn't be happier. We haven't had any biting incidents and so far, being a month in now, we haven't received any calls from the school to come pick her up for bad behavior so we are looking good! She loves her teachers and is super excited to go to school and play. The first couple days of school she had an accident or two but since then she's been good and stays dry all day. Good job, Nell!
Both of their teachers are really good about keeping us informed and sending pictures of them at school. It's so cute to see them in the classroom!
Nellie started soccer through Parks & Rec this month and is doing pretty good. I had to lie about her age and say she was 3 (3 months can't make THAT big of a difference can it?!) but she was SO excited to play and was super jealous when Mila was doing it and she wasn't. She's doing okay, all things considering.... :)
Mila started her soccer games through AYSO and (even though they technically don't keep score...) her team go beat bad the first week but then they got their act together and they've all been playing really well! Mila is an excellent player and is very dominant on the field; she's scored every game and just enjoys being out there playing.
After her first game we had managed to snag a camping spot at one of our favorite places, Crystal Cove. We headed over there for the weekend and had a blast as always.
For her birthday we asked Mila if she wanted to have a party or if she wanted to do something fun with her family and she chose to do something fun with her family, that little angel, so we spent the day at Knott's Berry Farm. The girls had so much fun and are right on the edge of being able to ride the "big kid" rides and not have to stay in Camp Snoopy anymore.
However, we did end up going to the beach and inviting a couple of Mila's best friends: Kira, Kayleigh, Alyssa and Juliet and celebrated with cookie cake and water balloons in the sand. After we had invited the girls Mila told me, "Mom? I REALLY want to invite Charlie too." So we did. It was so cute that she hand picked him, and he ended up coming! I tease her about him being her boyfriend and she just gets all shy and says "nooooo he's not!"
Mila had a great birthday and got lots of really nice things. She was so great (because I made her) writing her thank you notes and got them all out pretty efficiently. She was so shocked that she got money for her birthday and now has quite the stash, although I'm not sure she realizes that she can actually use it to buy things because she hasn't asked to go shopping!
Since turning 5 we also got her a chore chart and she has five chores to do every week and, if she does them all, she gets $5. She then has to put $1 in her piggy bank for savings and put $1 aside for offering at chapel and the rest is her.
I'm completely convinced the only way we were able to potty train Nellie so quickly is because I told her once she was potty trained she could go jumping with Ariah at Froggs Bounce House. I printed out pictures of the bounce houses, along with a picture of her and put them by the potties. EVERY time she went potty she said "now I go jump with Ariah??" So finally, at the end of the month, we went jumping and celebrate Nellie. These two little girls are so cute and so obsessed with each other, it's adorable; Nellie was on Cloud 9 all day.
We celebrated Robert's birthday with dinner at Captain Jack's, which was so yummy and a place that we had both always wanted to go.
The girls (along with Tori) painted picture frames as presents and put the cutest pictures in them. I hope know our man knows how much he's loved.
We closed the month with Mila's last swim lesson until May and I am so proud of how far she has come. I know she will regress a little but I am hoping she's still just as excited as she currently is!
