First Day of School 2015

Summer is officially over!  While the girls were ready for another year and I was starting to feel the same way, the house sure is quiet today without them here. So glad they went to school with happy, smiling faces as they looked forward to the start of a new year with new teachers.  Little M has Ms. Jeter for first grade.  Big M's primary teacher for fourth grade is Ms. Schmitt, but she will transition to Ms. Jacob's classroom in the afternoon for the subjects Ms. Schmitt doesn't teach.  I am so excited to see how their first day of school has been and look forward to another great year of school!

Little M and Big M leaving for their first day of school.

Little M with her first grade teacher, Ms. Jeter. 

Big M is ready for fourth grade with Ms. Schmitt. 

Summer is over!

It is unbelievable that summer is coming to an end and school starting tomorrow.  The girls have had a lot of fun with friends this summer...visits to the aquarium, the Tulsa Children's Museum/Discovery Lab, lots of swimming, Tulsa Drillers baseball games, visits to Gilcrease Museum, and many visits to the library and book store, and a week long visit to Mamaw and Papaw's house in Louisiana. They also attend ikamp and musical theatre camps! Summer 2015 has been a lot of fun and we wouldn't have had it any other way. While M&M look forward to school starting, it is sad that summer is over and our girls are getting older!

Fun with friends at the Oklahoma Aquarium in Jenks

Little M being goofy and crazy with a friend in the tunnels at the aquarium

Receiving their awards for reaching the library's reading goal

Swimming with friends

More swimming with friends

Fun at a Tulsa Drillers baseball game

Family Fun Day at Gilcrease Museum

 Meeting in Shreveport to pick up M&M from their visit to Mamaw and Papaw's.

More visits from the Tooth Fairy

Big M surprised me on Monday when she announced she had just pulled a tooth. We knew there was a loose one, but no one seemed to realize just how loose it really was.  She was super excited...it has been a while since the tooth fairy visited her and Little M had been occupying the tooth fairy's time lately! But an even bigger surprise came today (two days after the last tooth was pulled) when she asked, "Can you help me with something, Mom?". I said, "Sure, what is it?"  She needed help pulling out another tooth!  I got it out...it's the first one I have ever been able to pull for the girls.  She was so happy and relieved another one had been pulled.  No more bottom baby canines for Big M!  

Mary Poppins Musical Theatre Camp

M&M attended another musical theatre camp this summer.  The theme this week was Mary Poppins.  They had a blast and it was so fun because a good friend went to camp too.  We loved seeing Big M sing "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious".  She was so animated and you could really see that she was having fun.  Little M and her friend sang "Jolly Holiday". She was animated and having fun on stage too. Definitely a fun camp for the M&M girls! 

After the Mary Poppins Performance

A pic with fun friends!

Big M's Sewing

Big M has found that she likes sewing.  She started learning last summer while visiting Mamaw and Papaw.  This summer we decided that it would be fun to sew some birthday gifts for friends.  The simplest thing she has learned to sew at this point is a pillowcase.  And, she does an awesome job at it! We have been finding out what her friends' bedding looks like and then trying to make the pillowcase to coordinate with it. She has also used scrap fabrics to make book marks, and Big M has learned that Mamaw's and my sewing machine have some really neat stitches.  So proud of her and her creativity.  I really cannot wait to see what she sews next!

Concentrating on sewing up a pillowcase for her friend Avery.

All finished!