Gymnastics Star Student

Two weeks , I noticed that Mallory's gymnastics teacher was carrying around a clipboard and making notes. I didn't think much about it and then of course I forgot about it later.  When the girls were in class today I noticed there were a lot of awards on a wall and there was some paper listing out info. I walked over to see what it was - it was a list of all the kids who had moved up to the next level of gymnastics.  Mallory was one of them! :) She moved from beginners to intermediate.  She still has a long a way to go to be a professional gymnast (what she wants to be - meaning she wants to be able to do a cartwheel).  We are all so proud of her and she is very excited herself.

Ice First, Then Snow = No School

Well the first and hopefully last snow/ice storm has hit Texas this year.  I could complain about how cold it was etc, but we all know it was.  Let's just enjoy some pictures of the girls. They had so much fun when we spent a few minutes outside.  Mallory also enjoyed not having school yesterday.

Maggie showing her baby Ariel the snow.

The girls and Matt made a little snowman. Of course, they named him Olaf.  I decided since Olaf dreams of summer, we needed to include a flamingo.

Kindergarten Diorama

Mallory's homework assignment this week was to make a diorama of the animal she is studying in class.  Each student was able to choose the animal they wanted to study and Mallory chose a tiger.  We went to the library and got a couple of books to review where Tigers live etc.  After much thought, we decided that the forest habitat would be the easiest habitat to recreate.

Mallory did a large part of the project and I obviously helped.  Each parent had too - I did the cutting, taping, and gluing.

Mallory - drew and colored all the trees in the background, minus the one I did to show her how, drew the tiger cubs, colored the forest floor, and drew the majority of the trees in the front that we cut out.

We had fun doing this project. All of us are excited to see it (and the other students) when they are presented at Open House next week.  I am also looking forward to many more projects like this in the future.

Valentine Parties

Valentine's Day was on a Saturday this year so both girls had parties a couple of days before at school.  I found these really cute Gymboree heart skirts on sale and bought for their parties.

I was able to go to both parties for the girls, but only took pictures at Mallory's. Mallory was with us for Maggie's party (due to not being able to go to school because of her allergic reaction) so I wasn't able to do any picture taking.  Mallory and Maggie both had a great time at Mallory's party. They made heart hats, decorated cookies, and dressed up Mrs. Rea with funny Valentine's Day decor.

Here are the girls on Valentine's Day with a few little special treats from Matt and me.  Both girls received Frozen Jelly Belly's and a Frozen water ball.  This first picture shows them working on making hearts with their hands.

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Allergic to Amoxicillin

Mallory was feeling sick last week  so I took her to Dr. Daniel on Monday.  Turns out it was an infection and he gave her Amoxicillin.  On Saturday, February 7th  she woke up at 5:30 am and said her eye hurt. I noticed it was really swollen and thought that is random and gave her some Benedryl.  Later as she ate breakfast she started saying more parts of her body hurt and I noticed she had hives.  I couldn't figure out what she could have gotten into and then I remembered she had this same reaction back in November when on amoxicillin. The doc in the box said it wasn't due to the meds, but I wasn't buying that anymore.

I took her to Care Now and the doctor said it was an allergic reaction to the medicine and to take benedryl and/or claritin. Said it would worse before it got better.  That was an understatement.  Mallory missed four days of school because of this and needless to say Dr. Daniel and Target both have her listed as highly allergic to any Penicillin type drug.

The poor child's face  was swollen so bad she looked like we had filled her up with air.

It got really bad all over her body and at night the hives would go away and turn white/blue and then another set of hives would show up.  She truly looked like she was beaten up.  We felt so bad for her. Mallory's spirits were always good though. The only positive to this was she got to go to Maggie's school Valentine's party. That made both of them happy.

100th day of School

Mrs. Rea posted this photo of all the kids being silly on the 100th day of school.  (BTW - I have no idea what the actual day was but it was sometime in February. I know before the 14th and before Mallory missed school.)

Look What I Can Do

While this is occuring I am in the kitchen preparing dinner. I don't remember what I was making, but I know I was stiring something on the stove.  Next thing I know Mallory has walked over and told me to come look at Maggie.  She keeps telling me it is hilarious and she can't stop laughing.  Immediately I get nervous and think "oh no, this can't be good."

This is what I found.  I thought it was hilarious too and told Maggie I thought so. I also had to let her know we don't do this because we can break the shelves.  

This is her face before she realized she couldn't get down. From there everything went south.  She told me that she wanted to get a game from the shelf above so she climbed up to get it.  Using a step stool would have been WAY TOO EASY!