*this post is sponsored by Basic Invite Well, it’s official. My youngest daughter’s childhood is half-way over. That’s right. Aria is now nine years old. Nine! How did that creep up on me? Seems like only yesterday that I was potty training this one. The 9th birthday is always a special one in my heart because […]
a trip to downtown Los Angeles
Aria’s Girl Scout troop is representing Japan at their annual International Faire at the end of this month, so as a related field trip the troop took a train to downtown Los Angeles to spend some time in Little Tokyo. This was Aria’s second time on a train, but it was her first time at […]
Aria the Builder
The other day I brought some cabinets home from IKEA. Well, you know how that goes. They needed to be assembled, and my husband wasn’t home to do it. So I looked around the house to see who could build these things for me. I asked my 16 year old son if he would build them for me. He […]
the field trip
My kids have this thing that they do. Whenever someone leaves our house after visiting, or even sometimes when I leave the house to go somewhere, they will run on the sidewalk alongside the car and “race” the car to the top of our street. The person in the car will drive slow at first, […]
Old Maid
My Kindergartener gets out of school each day two hours before her siblings do. During that time she eats lunch, plays with the baby for a few, and then it’s all about “Mommy, will you play with me?” Today she wanted to play Old Maid. I told her that Old Maid is best played with […]
FIVE
This week Aria turned FIVE. It’s so hard to believe. Not too long ago, she was the baby of the family. Now she is five years old with a baby brother under her.Here is a quick update on our #9… She keeps a very messy, messy bedroom! Her favorite place to sleep is in big […]
I miss the mouse
So have you heard that I got a new laptop? My first laptop! Oh yeah, it’s pretty nifty, that’s for sure. I really do love it. But I have some concerns: For one thing, I pretty much suck at navigating the arrow-thing around without a mouse! Am I the only one who likes using a […]
preschool
The first day of preschool. I have done this eight times before. But of course this time, my ninth time taking one of my 4 year olds to a first day of preschool, had a special spot in my heart. She is the youngest. I doubt I’ll do this ever again. She could very well […]
while I was away….
While I was MIA from the blog world this summer….She turned four. She was so excited for her birthday to come. Her two friends Gigi and Evelyn were her party guests. In the past, her birthday party “guests” were her siblings, so to have her own friends there was a HUGE deal for her! We took […]
don’t look now
Don’t look now but it looks like someone is almost too big to ride in the BABY SWING!! You know your child is too big for the baby swing when she can STAND UP while sitting IN the baby swing. Yep, I think little Aria’s baby swing’n days are almost over. She will be FOUR […]
just like a three-year-old
We were passing the time at a soccer game this weekend, and I took some photos of Aria. I told her to jump so that I could try to capture motion. So she jumped.And instead if catching her image on the way down, I captured it on the way up, which makes this photo look […]
when it’s just one
There is one day during our school week where the older homeschooling kids take a couple of classes with our charter school. Two of them take an art class, and the other takes a US History class. This is great for them (to be away from mom for a change!) and this is also great […]
angel with a temper
Aria. Not to be messed with.You’re been warned.
what we did on Valentine’s Day
I’m having too much fun on Pinterest. WAY too much fun. Have you been to my Pinterest page lately? It’s getting pretty full. If you are not following me on Pinterest yet, then what are you waiting for? Click on this link….and FOLLOW! But I have to warn you: it’s a tad bit […]
Special Time
I took Aria to the library yesterday, just me and her. She wanted Special Time with me, and so I spent one hour and 15 minutes in the children’s section of the library reading one book…. after another…. after another…. after another. And then as soon as we got back home, she asked […]
when life gives you lemons…
… let your three year old make lemonade! This is Aria’s “forced smile” face. We are seeing this more and more in her photos lately. She’s getting to that age where she knows she is supposed to smile for a picture, and so she forces one instead of smiling naturally. And it’s useless to tell […]
let’s wrap
This year I let my three year old wrap all the Christmas gifts that she had carefully chosen for her brothers and sisters. She has 4 brothers and 4 sisters. That’s eight gifts. Do you know how much self-control it took for me to just sit there while she did her best to cut that […]
three and a half
I took this photo of Aria today and thought I might as well do an Aria Update to go with it! ARIA at age three and a half The other day she had an “accident” on the bathroom floor, and when I asked her what happened, she said: “I just ran out of time!” […]
Christmas tree
I love how our Christmas tree looks in the background of these photos
all I want for Christmas…
All she wants for Christmas is her own iPhone and all I want for Christmas is to have my iPhone back! Seriously, I’m all for sharing…but this is getting ridiculous! P.S. Have you voted for my blog today? click this link once a day to vote – thank you so much!this post is […]