That Maissie

Maissie loves to draw (Def gets that from Mark)  She has been working on giraffe pictures for me.  Here is the evolution of MJ's giraffe:

 And here is a note she threw down the stairs one night

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Dear Dad, There is a spider in my room. It scared me when I saw it. love Maissie. Dear Dadddy I love you.

 And this is Maissie being Rapunzel and letting down her golden hair from the top of the stair case.

Maissie and Makenna

Maissie and Makenna have been buds since we moved into our house. They are so cute together. Maissie was extremely sad about moving because she had to leave Makenna. The last night before we left for Utah Makenna's Mom Laura (who is also one of my great friends) suggested we take the girls to Build-a-Bear. It was so cute. They were so excited and thrilled to be there. They had to make sure they chose wisely (so it took forever just to decide what to get). But they were so happy the entire time.

100 day

For 100s day MJ wanted to do 100 pipe cleaners. So she (and a little me, but mostly she)made things and we stuck them on a shirt. She is very artistic like her dad :). I was very proud of her for making all the different things.

Hair

I really like it when the girls hair looks nice. Maissie often humors me, and lets me do her hair. But every once in a while she comes up with what she wants. This was when she came to me with all these hair clips, and she wanted to make sure the wiener dogs were kissing. AND she wanted to make sure I did it right, so I had to take a picture.

Henderson Winter Festival

We went to the Henderson parade. We made it just in time to see Uncle Andy and Family!

It was a beautiful day, nice and warm

After the parade Maissie had a performance and Amooh and Grandpa came. AND Dia came home from Costa Rica!!

Maissie had a great time, and a lot of fun

Maissie and Makenna are so sweet :)

Are you missing something?

Maissie has had a loose tooth for quite a while. It seemed like it was just barely hanging on. So at dinner she stood up real fast and plop- our came the tooth. She said she just pushed it out with her tongue. Here are the before and after shoots.

She was thrilled about the tooth fairy. But she wanted to keep the tooth to take to show and tell. So she left the tooth fairy a note that she wanted to keep the tooth, and wouldn't you know, the tooth fairy left the tooth.

Maissie turns 6!

We celebrated MJ's bday on her real bday too! She got the great crown from her teacher and super cupcakes from Grandpa and A'mooh. She was great to share the cupcakes.

Mark made heart sandwiches and octupus hotdogs for lunch (and her BF Makenna was there too)

My what a difference 5 years make.

Party Party MJ is 6!

Maissie and Mark wanted to do a Party for her Birthday. So they planned an Ariel one together, and it was a great success.

There was the ginormous pinata and a Ariel cake:
The girls colored and had princess hats and wands:

Played toss the bean bag into the shark or Ursula:

And pin the flower on Ariel:

It was freezing outside, so we did the pinata in the garage. I had no idea that 5/6 year olds could be so brutal on a pinata. At the end they were all screaming "Die!"

Maissie had a little Lamb

We are so happy with Maissie's teacher this year. She does lots of fun stuff with the kids. This was a picture that she got to choose how she decorated. Candy was a good choice!

Jens got in on it too
Mac was happy just watching

She had a nursery rhyme program where all the kids memorized a nursery rhyme and sang some too. It was really too cute.

First first day of school

Maissie started Kindergarten!!! We all were excited. Everything went very smooth. When she came home I asked her how the day went, and she said "Good. But we didn't even learn to read."

Maissie and Makenna

Maissie has the cutest bestie ever! They do a lot together because they get along so well ( and it works our perfect for me and Makenna's mom :))
They even sometimes have the same shirt! (this was St. Patricks day)
This is their singing group Twist and Shout. They love to sing the songs in the car together.
AND they are on the same soccer team! We are hoping some of Makenna's athleticism will rub off on Maissie :)
AND, they are in the same preschool class. I love it!

Goodbye Hello Kitty

So some things have slipped by me lately- I am sure I have a good excuse somewhere.
Meet MJs favorite shoes. She loves them and wears them as much as possible.
When I picked her up from school I noticed her shoes as she was running in front of me.
She was actually very big girl about giving them up- phew!

Maissie turns 5

Maissie wanted a birthday party. SO, we got some invitations that happened to be unicorn, but then MJ wanted everything unicorn. My Dad found Pinata Loca- a shop that will make any pinata for you. We were really excited- especially MJ- but when we saw it, we thought it was so funny. Check this thing out.



We were all very amused by the gigantic unicorn. At first we blind folded the kids- but soon realized it was not necessary to have the blind fold- they needed all the help they could get to conquer this sucker.
Jens and Sam had a good time watching



Mark made balloon flowers and doggies for all the girls
We also made bracelets and decorated cookies- must have been to messy because I didn't get any pictures.

I was teasing MJ that it was my birthday for 30 days- so she told me it was her birthday for 5 days.

This is her 5 year old bike from Grandpa and A'mooh.
She thinks it is pretty cool to have a big 5 year old bike- but we still need to find the right training wheels for it.
On her actual birthday Sam was nice enough to watch Jens so I could go volunteer in MJ's preschool class. They sang to her, and did a birthday dance song. She even got a prize that took her 5 min or more to choose.
She really wanted a unicorn cake. Mark I am sure could have pulled it off, but I wasn't interested or up to the challenge. SO we got a unicorn my little pony and stuck it on top of the cake and called it good.