Wednesday, October 9, 2013

First school lunch

Since we beat the teacher by a few minutes this morning, I snapped a few pictures outside the classroom door.


 
Today was my first time to go eat lunch with the girls at school. And what's better than a birthday lunch. The first two weeks of school parents are not allowed to go, as the teachers sit with them and get them used to rules and expectations. After that point, parents and family can come up anytime. At their school if a parent comes to eat then you have to sit on the stage with them or out in the courtyard. Since this was the first time I had gone, we ate up on the stage. It was absolutely hysterical because they LOVED it!! Their class is actually sitting right in the front row so they could easily see them the whole time. The class as a whole was actually quite distracted by us too. The girls were constantly waving and telling me who was who and the kids were waving back. You would have thought they were movie stars waving to their fans. They were giggling and silly the whole time. So much fun to see.

Subway was the birthday lunch of choice
happy girls!

trying to get a picture of the whole class behind them
just having a little fun

"Mom, can you come back tomorrow?!"
It was a lot of fun! I told them I would try to come once a month to bring them lunch :)
Time to go back to class

byeeeeee!!!!

It was definitely an entertaining lunch with these two. Looking forward to the next time.

On our way to school

Birthday morning fun! New beanie boos in hand and ready for the walk (they walk with a different beanie boo every day to school)

Andrew is usually just waking up when we are heading out the door but even he was excited about all the birthday commotion.
 


My sweet 6 year olds!!





such a good sport when his sisters are being silly


off we go
Got to school a little early and even beat the teacher so Andrew decided he was going to sit in for the morning story.
There are 6 classroom of kindergartens with anywhere from 15-17 kids. Each class sits on their on line in the morning before the official bell rings and they go to their respective classes.
If he could have stayed with them, I think he would have. (no shoes and all. haha)
Love you girls!!
Happy 6th Birthday!!

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Doc McStuffins Cake!!

I could not have been more impressed with this cake!! wowzers! My friend Monica Barraza made this amazing cake! The girls' birthday was at Powersports so didn't have a central theme per say but they requested a Doc McStuffins cake. And specifically, it had to have Lambie and Stuffy.
Lambie is Elizabeth's favorite and Stuffy is Olivia's.
The girls picked out different cake ideas on pinterest and we gave Monica free reign to be as creative as she saw fit. She is very talented and I trust what she can do. Our only requirement was that Lambie and Stuffie had to be the center points but other than that we let her work her magic.
And boy did she!!

Lambie and Stuffie are completely handmade and edible! 
As a matter fact, everything on this cake is edible!!
EVERYTHING!!! 
I love this touch! Elizabeth wanted vanilla cake and Olivia chocolate so each doctor bag was made to their specific cake. Each layer of the cake was one of each as well. 

All the little touches were awesome!
The cake itself was quite delicious and we ate off of it for three days!

Birthday morning

These are terrible quality pictures but they loved breaking through their door when they woke up birthday morning :)
 






Good morning to two big 6 year olds!!!!

Physics and Astronomy festival!

One of the really cool things about living in Aggieland is the fun activities that some of the departments put on up at A&M. Our absolute favorite so far has been the Vet School open house (I probably need to go back and post that from last year). Back in the spring, the engineering department put on their annual physics and astronomy "festival". It was really cool. LOTS of it was quite above our knowledge base but there was a lot for us to do as well. We had a great time. The older the kids get the more and more they will get out of this.
just taking a little ride...
This poor guy was working so hard giving "rides" to whoever wanted them
 
watching a demonstration


This is what the girls would weigh if they were on the moon. Olivia is in the purple crocs and Elizabeth the hello kitty slip ons. At the time, they were both around 40lbs
 (Elizabeth generally 2-3lbs heavier on earth ;))

And here they are on Jupiter


bubbles that don't pop...they stay suspended (I forgot why?)
They thought the infrared was pretty cool. I love how Elizabeth's glasses show up.
riding a bike with square wheels...They were just a tad short but the students were nice enough to help them out so they could do it



we watched this probably 5 times. It was an explosion of some type and they loved it! You never knew exactly when it was going to go off and it scared them each and every time.


hmmmm....I think it's starting...


KABOOM!!!!!!!!


nothing like a good ol fashion catapult

how fast can you kick a soccer ball or throw a football...
we chose soccer
Elizabeth kicked the ball 17mph

And  Olivia 16mph
We are now getting ready to see the "Bubble man"
So cute seeing them in a lecture hall! Visions of the future!



The caterpillar!
Yes, that is smoke coming from inside the bubble! Pretty amazing
so amazed!
bubbles inside of bubbles and blowing smoke inside


It was really funny to watch some of the engineering students try to explain their station to 4 and 5 year olds. some did a great job taking it down to basics others didn't stray from their "script", which in all honesty was above me sometimes. ha!



what happened to their bodies...







this was a favorite! It was actually closing down and this nice man let them each pull the trigger to launch the ball probably 3 times each! They loved it!
 


where is that water coming from...
silly girls
Loving their sun color changing bracelets made at one of the stations

We weren't sure what to expect when arrive but it was a great day of learning, play and friends.