My baby is growing UP

We have 1 week of school left. I am so sad to think that the first year went by so quickly. It's neat to see how my baby has grown and how much she has learned.

She won!

Our sweet little Aimee came home today with a gift certificate for $10. It appears that she has won 3rd place in the school art show. All the K-4th classes had 2 kids that were picked to submit their drawings. In the K dept, she won!

Way to go AIMEE!!!

Letter/Sound Relationships

These are the directions:

Print the letter that represents the beginning sound for each picture.

There is a picture and they YOU write what the first sound is. Aimee wrote the word also (according to how she heard it).

Fish - fish
Ball - bol
Dro - dro
Watch - woch
Bear - ber
Kite - kit
Crayon - caron
Duck - duce
Vase -vas
Lips - lips
Acorn-acorn
Turtle - turtle
Wig - wig
Hat- hat
Peanut - penat
Star - sor
Mouse - mas
Pear- per
Umbrella - umbrella (she HAD to have help with this!)
Gate - gat

I love the work she is doing. The last sentence she wrote was this.

"I lic (like) my bune, mom, dad".

Oh, I just love this little girl!

On Tuesday when Renee dropped Aimee off at school she walked her in, as she always does, but found only book bags lining the hallways, no teachers and no kids. They began to walk around to try to find out what was going on. They found everyone outside, in a cold drizzle under umbrellas. One of the teachers greeted Aimee and told her to go find her class. Renee asked what is going on. She was told, we are having a special visit today.

KATV Channel 7 News in Little Rock was flying "Chopper 7" their news helicopter along with Todd Yukobian, one the weather men, in to Yocum to talk with the kids. Last night they had a quick piece on the news about the visit.

Today when Aimee and I got to the office after school she said, "Daddy, we have got to go read Todd's blog! He is going to talk about us!"

We went to Channel 7's website and followed the link to "Todd's Blog" and sure enough there was a post about Yocum and Aimee is in one of the pictures in the video. The link is posted below!

http://arkansasweather.blogspot.com/

Have a great day! -d.

My favorite time

Is when we put Aimee to bed at night. We do our quiet time and then she reads her books for a while. Then, I go back to "tuck" her in.

When she was a baby she loved being swaddled...I mean, LOVED it. We did it forever.

In the movie "Hope Floats", the mom (Sandra Bullock) tucks Bernie (the daughter) in the bed after a bad day. She makes her into a "buritto baby".

So, I make Aimee into a buritto baby. She grabs her big baby and wraps her baby's arms around her neck and goes to sleep kissing her baby. I wrap those sheets around her as tight as I can and give her kisses.

Last night I said "don't give me any lip" cause she kept on talking. She puckered up her lips and it was one of the funniest things I have seen in a long time. She is just so cute and precious. It's hard to believe that she is in Kindergarden and is growing up. I love to see her in her school clothes that make her look like a little teenager but it's hard for me.

She also received her first report card. All A's and S's except for Citizenship where she had a "C". That is another name for Conduct and I can't believe she had a C...lol! If you knew how much I talked and got in trouble at school, you would be falling out of your chair laughing right now due to my scarcism.

Anyway, have a great day!