Ada loves water and looks forward to her lessons every summer. We signed her up with her good friend Owen for her 2 week class and they had a blast. Ruby enjoyed the kiddie pool and will get to start her lessons next year. At the end of summer, Ada participated in the country club’s swim meet. She won 1st place in both of her races!
Tag: Misc
Ada’s Ballet
This past spring, Ada took a semester of ballet classes followed by a big summer production in June. She performed as a cute dancing tree in a Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan story-line mash up. All the kids did a fantastic job showing off their talents and skills.
Ada Turns 7!
We can’t believe our Ada is 7, time sure flies! She has turned into a sweet young lady with a heart for Jesus and a love for reading, art, LEGOS, and dancing. This year Ada wanted a Frozen themed party and after looking online together for cake ideas, showed me what she wanted. Other than a few lumps and awkwardness the cake turned out pretty cute and Ada was very happy with it. We had a large group of 10 kids to celebrate with this year, including Ada’s cousin Layla. They played bean bag toss, create-a-creature (with marshmallows) and pin the nose on Olaf followed by presents and cake. We are thankful for so many friends & family!
Summer Miscellany
I have condensed a few posts into one, there were too many this year 🙂
The girls having fun in the hammock with dad, bike riding, camping in the backyard, and new outfits.
Ada continued in swim lessons, this time with one of her good friends, Owen.
The eclipse was pretty cool, we viewed it old school because I forgot to buy glasses, oops.
Todd filled our only dirt spot with water for a muddy fun day while I was away.
Fair Day
This year I took the girls to the fair all on my own. It was a bit challenging with Ruby, but we managed to see lots of animals and they had lots of fun exploring. Ada ran into a friend from church and was able to ride several rides with her while I kept Ruby busy. She really enjoyed the small animal experience and tractors this year 🙂
Faithlife Picnic
Todd’s summer work picnics are always a lot of fun. It’s hard to chose what our favorite part is between the petting zoo, sampling all the food trucks, face painting, games, rock wall and bouncy houses. The kids really look forward to it every year for all of the above reasons 🙂
Bubbles!
Todd wanted to do something fun with the girls one evening so he found a way to make a simple bubble wand with yarn and sticks. The bubbles created were huge! The girls had lots of fun trying to pop them before they popped on their own 🙂
Ballet
Ada took part in ballet this past spring at Dancing For Joy. She enjoyed learning pre-ballet positions along with practicing for the big performance that took place in June at the Mount Baker Theatre. The show was called Narnia Excerpts, and the music and choreography were fantastic. Ada’s class had a 2 min part as the adorable “first sunlight” with glowing tutus. Ada is not sure if she will continue in ballet, but it was a fun learning experience for sure 🙂
Water Rocket
A couple weeks after Ruby was born Todd and Ada built a 2 liter-bottle rocket. Ada picked out the colors and designed the base. The bottle started out shooting about 6 feet up into the air but after a few weeks of fine tuning, it got up to about 40 feet.
The neighbor kids had fun helping and watching the initial testing of the rocket. I did not get any more pictures of the launches, but Todd has a video he’ll post on Facebook 🙂
33 Months
Currently Ada is 35 months, soon to be 3! I’m pretty sure the monthly growth updates will cease, but I will continue to update and blog about things we do…if I can catch up 🙂
She is such a funny girl and that pretty much sums up Ada. She loves life and loves to play, play, PLAY! Some of her phrases are “I can’t know” and “actually” when she corrects you or has a better idea. She began praying at night for family and friends which has been so wonderful to hear.
These were taken at the Stoney Ridge pumpkin patch before Halloween.
La Casa Blanca 