Summer Reading Kick Off

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We are kicking off our 2009 Summer reading with a great start. The girls are really excited and love going to the bookstore. Today we went to Barnes and Noble and the girls picked out the following books. I don't officially have the list of all that they will read for this school year complete yet, but to start off this is what they will be reading. The girls were really excited about the books they read all the way home.


Marie:
-Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
-Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom

Madison:
- Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
-Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia Maclachlan
-Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Mikayla:
-One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
-A Fly Went By by Dr. Seuss
-Adventuress of The Berenstain Bears by Stan & Jan Berenstain

*Madison & Mikayla also got Brain Quest Workbooks for 3rd & 1st grades for summer review.*

Montana:
-Best Word Book Ever by Richard Scarry's
-I'm a Big Sister by Ronne Randall
-Mr Brown Can Moo Can You by Dr. Seuss

Barnes and Noble is offering there summer reading program, check details here, where a child can earn a free book for every 8 books they read ( limit is 2 free books = 16 books read). Make sure you stop by and get your reading log so your child can pick out their book.

Marie's 1st hair cut

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Today was the day for Marie's hair cut. Our day started very early (6 A.M.)with me relaxing, washing, blow drying her hair in prepartion for the big cut. Marie has very fine,curly hair. The finest of all the girls so far (we shall see if McKenzie has hair like Marie's or one of her other sisters). She was very excited to get a cut, as I was not allowed to get my hair cut until I was 16 years old. But she needed to get those dead ends off her hair that were weighing it down. The hairdresser was really nice. This was the first time we had used this particular lady as the lady that cuts my hair was booked solid through June. I told her we wanted a dry cut in a bob style with no layers. You should have seen the style Marie wanted, something like this without the bangs. However, I like simple, classic styles...I know I need to let her embrace her creativity and fashion sense, but not with her hair, not at 12 years old, right? Maybe when she is older, and out in college, and/or married, she can cut, style, dye her hair any way she would like, but for now, it is a simple, classic bob, you can't go wrong with that.


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Waiting sisters:
Madison, Mikayla, & Montana getting in on the photo action. Montana made it known that she had to get her nails and toes polished, because she wanted it. That's her new thing, she WANTS things, or the world melts for her. Keep on melting baby because you can't have everything you want. Slowly but surely she is learning this life lesson.

Did you get it? Wiggle it!!!

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I awoke this morning to the sounds of 3 giggling girls in the hall bathroom.
Mikayla:Did you get it?
Mikayla:Wiggle it!
Montana:Wiggle it S. Madison Caffey! *Montana has taken to calling Madison by her full name*
Mikayla:To the side?
Mikayla:You got it?!?
Mikayla & Montana:YOU GOT IT!!!
Madison & Mikayla:It's bleeding, eewww!!!
Montana:Mommy, Madison is reeding and she pulled her teeth out!

That's the play by play from this mornings action. Madison has lost another tooth, her 6th one. Yes, my children are late teethers, in fact Miss Madison didn't get her first tooth until she was 15 months! I thought my baby didn't have any teeth.
She will be getting sealants this Thursday put on her 6 year old molars that have finally finished coming in, I told you they were late teethers :-)

Almost home...

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Almost home...We can't wait! Too soon to make the countdown chain, but exciting enough to be halfway through this deployment. Mike will not come back to WA but instead he will meet us in Virginia sometime in late July.

Thanks for doing all you do for our Country and our family, love you always!

Wordless Wednesday

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Still needs a nap

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Montana fights me when it is nap time. She wants to be big like sisters and stay up in the afternoon and not take a nap, but she really does need one. She gets quite honorary around 6 p.m. when she doesn't have one. Here she is on two separate occasions conked out around 5:30 p.m. while I was preparing dinner.