Too much fun!

Kira the Kitty Cat!
Kira has made a new friend at school.
Her name is Taiya.
"Mom not Taeya next door, but Taiya that sits across from me on the yellow table"
Taiya is the youngest in her family and is always following her older siblings around looking for something to do. So on Saturday they invited Kira over and I didn't see her for the rest of the day! She went to a craft show wit their family and got her face painted like a cat.
We're so glad Kira has made a new friend!

Anything to stay busy before school starts!
Brynn had to make salt dough for a project at school, so Kira needed some too, so she could make her project. It kept her busy for a whole hour! I was thrilled.

After school fun!
Kira and her friends Lexi and Lizzie came to play and they found my stash of craft foam.
They stayed very busy making princess crowns.

Grandma Julie and Kono (my mom's mom) came over for the afternoon.
Grandma is leaving on vacation for a week so she wanted another look
at her grandaughter before she goes to play on the beaches of Aruba for a week.
She said Alayna looked so much bigger! There is something special about having four generations of women in the same room.

Kira sees Brynn holding the baby alot like this.
" mom I want to hold Alayna on my chest like Brynn does! "

Yesterday we were on our way to pick up Brynn from dance and we saw a beautiful sunset lighting up some billowy clouds. "Don't you think that looks like heaven Kira?"
"No mom. There aren't clouds in heaven." So I asked her what heaven looked like and she told me heaven has lots of green grass and pretty fountains. Sounds like a place I want to be as long as my cute little Kira is there with me!

School Daze!

Kira sporting her Little Mermaid backpack. The backpack is an important conversation piece in the coatroom before class! Thanks Brandalyn for picking up the backpack at the Disney store.

Brynn, on her first day of 4th grade. I'm a little biased, but isn't she beautiful? Brynn thought the summer was way too short and was dreading going back to school. Now she's back into the swing of things and has decided school isn't so bad.

There is a chorus of chatter on the way home. Kira: "Mom I sit on the yellow table and I made a snake with yellow playdough and I learned a new song, wanna hear it?" Brynn: "I want to say something Kira! Mom, I found all my friends at recess today and I took off my shoes and showed them that I can do my splits and we are reading a book called The 4th Grade Nothing and the main character's name is Fudge and..." This is how they recall the events of the day. One run on sentence without taking time to breath. Girls can easily move from one subject to the next without skipping a beat. This kind of conversation completely confuses their dad!

Kira has afternoon kindergarten. Which is fine, except that waiting until 12:30 to go to school can seem like an eternity to a very eager 5 year old! We play lots of board games and
Play House Disney on the computer. We have daily debates over going on walks with mom. Kira says: "I don't want to go on a walk mom, my legs get too tired!" So we settle for a little shuffle down the sidewalk in her rollerskates on knee pads!

Two happy ladies that just got their dad back from his salmon fishing trip to Alaska. When he walked through the door he was inundated with questions like, " Did you see any bears, and did you have to run away really fast from them? Did you eat the fish you caught? Did you get wet? Did you see any other people? etc. etc. Seth brought the girls these stuffed black bears. It only took them about 5 minutes to dress them up in doll clothes.

Kira, sporting Seth's cool hat from Alaska. He came through the door wearing this hat and a very thick beard. His lips had disappeared under his overgrowth. I kept calling him a cowboy. "I'm not a cowboy" he kept saying, "I'm just awesome." We all do think he's pretty awesome and are very glad he's home safe and sound.
In this last photo Kira was doing the dishes and decided she neede a little music break. She picked up the bottle cleaning brush, which became an instant microphone! When Kira's home there is always music in the air :)