Mia's Last Swim Meet - Pizza Meet

This past Tuesday (10/16) was Mia's last swim meet as a "Stingray" "Divingray". She improved her time which is what Coach CeCe wanted to see happen. She also moved from lane 1 to lane 3 which is where the faster swimmers take their mark.

Here's Mia's time from the first meet vs. the third meet....you can see the improvement
Free 1:23 (1st meet) vs. :56 (3rd meet)
Breast 1:45 vs. 1:18
Back 2:01 vs. 1:21
Fly 2:14 vs. 1:11

Here's Mia taking her mark and getting ready to jump in to do the Freestyle stroke. Check out that determined swimming face!
Happy to see her daddy at the meet. He came just in time to see her swim to the end of her lane and touch the wall to complete her stroke.
She's a SWIM BY THE C (name of Coach CeCe's business) STAR SWIMMER!!
Mia and Nina finished their strokes and decided to put on a dancing show. Mia met Nina when she was at Gymrompers and then again at swim lessons.
Pizza Time! Everyone's hungry and waiting for pizza.

Vanessa's 5th Gymnastics Birthday

Sorry Vanessa...we had to miss your party today. We had two parties that overlapped times so we had to miss one. Mia was sad because she LOVES going to birthday parties and having fun. She especially likes gymnastics because she goes every Monday year round for class and is in her second year. She wanted to go to the bowling party because she doesn't get to bowl often.

Savannah's 5th Birthday Bowling Party

Ready to Bowl!! Here's Mia getting her ball ready and the birthday girl Savannah. Ready to Roll! She did well considering she only had 3 pins left to knock down on this bowl.
Here's her score board....almost finished game 1.
Here's Harley (the tallest), Aunt Jeanie, Savannah and Mia hamming it up for the camera. They actually took a break from bowling for a minute to take a picture. They had 4 lanes for the party and each had a lane including...........

Daddy!!! Here's the bowling duo....Mia and her Daddy. They bowled on lanes next to each other.

Kaitlin's 5th Birthday Tea Party

A weekend of birthday parties. Kaitlin's birthday party was on Saturday. She had a Tea Party at Creative Dance.

Here's Mia getting her make-up done. She had her nails done too. The is Ms. Jennifer who was the party hostess and is also Mia's dance teacher. Craft time! Each child decorated a zippered bag. This is Mia's finished product.
Tea time! Everyone put on their tea hat and waited to be served lemonade or hot tea. Then they were served refreshments to go with their "tea". Cheese quesadilla's, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, sausage bites, bagel pizza, scones and cakes.
Here are all the girls (and boy, Cooper, not pictured) enjoying their tea time. Mia sat next to Vanessa and on the other side of the table are Hannah (can see her yellow headband behind Kaitlin), the Birthday Girl, Kaitlin and Michelle who sprained her arm when she fell backwards off a swing.

Mia's field trip - Fire Station, Pumpkin Patch & Park

Mia had her first field trip yesterday. They went to the Fire Station, across the street to a Pumpkin Patch and back across the street to the park for lunch and to play. I was exhausted when I got home at 1:00 p.m.

Here's Mia on her first bus ride. She is in the lower right corner of the middle window.

All 3 Pre-K classes went on the field trip together. Here's Mia sitting on the tarp waiting for the fireman to come out to teach them about fire safety.
Here's the fireman who talked to the kids about fire safety. You can see a mini fire truck on the left sleeping. This is Eddie. He sleeps a lot at the fire station. The kids had to yell to wake him up.
Here's Mia and her classmates showing how to check to see if a door is hot.
When a firemen has on all his gear, he's carrying an extra 75 pounds.All the kids were invited up the hug or give him five. Mia gave him five REAL quick.
Mia with the firemen's hat on her head.The jaws of life!
Mia driving the truck.Mia's class learning about the "smoke house".In the "smoke house" learning what to do if a fire starts in your house and how to get out. From left to right are: Corryn, Myles, Daniel, Carlee and Mia.
Here's the smoke and all the kids learning to get down on the ground and crawl out to the nearest exit. Mia crawling out the "smoke house".

Mia practicing to Stop, Drop (& cover your eyes) and RollEveryone got a tour of the fire house. The kids all thought it was funny that they slept in the same room.Eddie woke up again and starting spraying water from his nose trying to spray all the kids.The Pumpkin Patch....United Methodist Church...across the street from the Fire House.

The kids sat on hay bales and listened to two stories about Halloween.They played toss the bean bag through the pumpkin head. Everyone won two stickers.They were able to pick out a small pumpkin each and bring it home.Next was craft time. They colored, cut out and glued a pumpkin to a brown paper bag to make a pumpkin puppet.We went back across the street to the park and ate lunch. Afterwards all the kids played on the playground. Here's Mia and MacKenzie (love her flying blonde hair) swinging.Time to go back to school. Here's Mia getting on the school bus for the ride back to school.

Now do you see why I was so exhausted after this field trip??? It was lots of fun!!!

Mia at Mommy's work

Mia had off from school on October 5th so she came to work with mommy for a little while. Here she is at the front desk busy at work.

Ryan's Birthday

This is the cake that Mia made and decorated for her daddy's birthday. She picked out the candles. The white candle in the front plays "happy birthday". Here's Mia singing "Happy Birthday" to her daddy at Aunt Barbara's house.