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First swim 2015

When it’s 100+ outside you go swimming at Auntie Shannon’s. You just do. Even if it is only April. Also if your Mom is awesome she buys new swim gear in Feb. Because you know, desert life. 😉
IMG_5159I wasn’t feeling brave enough to bring R so he stayed at daycare. I figure if he won’t listen to me on land swimming just wouldn’t be a safe activity.

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Monkey baby HATED the pool. I’m hoping she will learn to love it since we are planning on all but moving into our friends pool for lessons when school gets out.IMG_5163 IMG_5160The water was a bit chilly for my taste, but the kiddos had a blast. I am hoping that Kaylee and Regan will be floatie free by the end of summer. Fingers crossed. 😉

Kaylee’s 7th birthday party

Kaylee wanted a science themed party. She loves math and science. "Mom we can just do some experiments and you don't even have to decorate!"

WHAT?!?! It's like she doesn't even know me.

I told her I loved the party theme, but that she would have to deal with decorations. I made a bunch of banners using periodic elements to spell everything out. She LOVED it!

 

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Due to an unfortunate bee situation our front door was not accessible. Good times….. angry

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And here we have the lab queen herself. She was killing me with her cuteness. She did her own "crazy busy science girl hair" by then end of the party it was a bigger hot mess. LOVED it!

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Baking soda and vinegar to blow up balloons.

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Some cornstarch and water for a little Non-Newtonian Fluid fun. They were t this longer than I expected. I forget how fun this stuff is.

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IMG_4913 We had TANG because it's all sciencey and stuff. Astronaut drink and all. Plus it yummy. And some super yummy (guests said so) dairy/egg free chocolate cupcakes.

 

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And of course coke and mentos. I got baby coke bottles for each child. They all really like getting to do their own. Jon got some really fun footage on the GoPros.

 

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I went to check on the epic disaster of cornstarch and water fun. WOW. They had fun.

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Kaylee conducted the birthday song this year. I was cracking up.

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Her requested beaker pinata lasted threw all the kids. Uncle Josh helped her finish it off in the end.

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I LOVE this shot of Owen. Great form!

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This purple dress fro Yaiyai was two years in the making. Kaylee had very specific requests in her dream purple sparkly dress in that it needed to be pretty, sparkly, but still soft and not itchy. She was beyond thrilled.

 

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She had fun popping balloons from her friends. "I'm so rich now!" Ha!

I tell her she has an elf ear. She has and ear that has an extra cartilage ridge that form a capitol E and it's a bit pointed at the top. She has taken to working on projects in the garage and has her own mini workshop. So we got her some proper sized tool and gear. She was SO happy to have tools that are real and fit her little hands.

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Later that night after everything was cleaned up I got to hold my not so little anymore girl while relaxing on the couch. She passed out and I was near tears that it was my last time holding her as a six year old. I am such a big baby. For the past six months I've been telling her to just stop growing. Her response is always the same, "I can't stop. Just talk to Jesus about it."  Hard to argue with that huh?