This year, the girls’ school had a Crazy Hair Day. They decided to go all out, thanks to a little help from their mom and Pinterest.
After becoming an expert in sock buns for Molly’s Leia costume, Jen quickly whipped up Molly’s donut hair. With the addition of real sprinkles, a few of Molly’s classmates were confused as to whether the donut was real!
Leah’s classmates kept asking her if those were real M&Ms in her hair. She had to explain that yes, it was real, but it was Skittles. Didn’t they read the box?
Molly made up this song about her hair for Crazy Hair Day at school.
Leah knew the right catch phrase for her Crazy Hair Day hair.
Leah continues to be a serious tennis player. She got invited to step up from the regular recreational classes to the Academy classes back in June, and has been doing that since then. While the weather was nice, she even got to play on clay courts every week. Now she’s back inside avoiding the elements, but still loving it.
She participated in a Tournevent (somewhat less competitive than a tournament, geared towards smaller kids) and had a great time. Here are some of the kids at the end.
On a random October Saturday, Molly was invited to a sleepover party at her friend Grace’s. Jen was spending the evening with some of her friends, so Leah and I had a Daddy Date. She chose dinner and a movie, so we went to Cheeburger Cheeburger then saw Storks in the theater. This was Leah’s first time in the new fancy reclining movie theater seats.
When I initially posted about Leah’s birthday, I forgot to include the video of her opening Lea Clark, her new American Girl Doll. There’s so much joy and excitement in it, so I couldn’t leave it off the site. So, here it is.
Posted in Leah on November 10th, 2016 by c-had – 1 Comment
Leah’s 7 now, which means she can get her ears pierced. And she wanted to do it as soon as she could. Due to activities, we couldn’t get it done right after her birthday. But we made a plan to go on Friday, September 30. And then Jen had her accident that day, delaying things.
We played it by ear, hoping Jen would feel up to it shortly. The following Monday, the girls had a day off school and Jen thought she was ready to try leaving the house (not driving herself, of course). So, we all headed to Piercing Pagoda at the mall (which was empty).
Leah wanted to get some birthstone earrings for her initial set, but they were sold out. However, she found some lovely butterfly ones. There was also only one person working at the time since it was slow, so she wouldn’t be able to have both ears done simultaneously as Molly had. Despite this, she was eager to get them pierced right then.
So, she sat in the chair and eagerly expected it. Here she is with the ink dots already drawn ready to get them.
And here is the piercing itself. She has a big flinch when it happens, but she never cries. And good job to her piercer for piercing the second quickly before there was any chance of a second thought.
And here she is with her freshly pierced ears, smiling and loving them. Now she’s anxiously counting down the days to when she is allowed to change them to a different pair.
For her party, Leah chose to have a duplicate party of Molly’s 8th birthday - a Bricks 4 Girlz party. She (and Molly) continue to be huge Lego fans. Fortunately for Jen, she could reuse some of the decorations and ideas from the last party.
Jen decorated these goody bags for each of the girls.
Jen made a Lego cake similar to the one she had made for Molly, though Leah requested her favorite color - yellow.
Leah and Jen made a Lego door hanger for the front door.
The party began with free play, using the bins full of Legos brought by the Bricks 4 Kidz folks.
The girls made their own minifigs (which they got to keep), then created a biography for them.
Then it was time for the big build. First, some guidance as to how the motorized car model build kits and instructions work.
They built in teams. Leah and Molly were partners.
When you build a motorized Lego car, you’ve got to get it to pop a wheelie.
Building cars is tiring. Time for a nap. (The other teams were all still building their cars).
Once the cars can propel themselves, you’ve got to drive them around. And, of course, run them into one another bumper-cars-style.
After some time with the cars, it was time for singing, cake, and ice cream.
Once everyone had their fill, it was back to playing. Lego motors can be used for more than propelling cars. They can also drive gears that crinkle up paper.
Lego motors can also spin plates for spin art.
Last, but not least, each girl got to take their picture in the Wyldestyle cutout.
Here’s all the girls and their minifigs. Thanks to all for coming to the party.
Given how silly these girls were, we had to take a silly one.
A week later, we got together at Aunt EA and Uncle Scott’s house for the Auburn-LSU game. Since Aunt EA is an LSU graduate, we try to get together to watch the game every year. This also served as an opportunity to celebrate Leah’s birthday again - this time with the Sellers side of the family.
Before the food, fun, and football, the girls had fun playing with their youngest cousin.
For this birthday celebration, Uncle Scott and Aunt EA made beignets.
Here we all are. Grams wore LSU apparel since they were otherwise outnumbered.
Leah also got some more presents.
Twenty dollars is a fortune to this kid!
Leah was so excited to get a tennis outfit for her doll (including dress, shoes, racquet, and ball), she had to put it on her doll immediately.
We then headed home to get the girls in bed. The game wasn’t over yet, but it was getting late. We did manage to see the ending right after we got home, which was wild to say the least.
Back in September, Leah turned 7. G’Mom and Grampa flew into town to celebrate with Leah. And celebrate we did.
Leah’s birthday celebrations began on her actual birthday (and continued for a bit over a week). As soon as she got home from school, she was ready to open some presents with our immediate family and G’Mom and Grampa.
Our girls (and most of the others that we know) continue to be obsessed with Shopkins.
Shopkins Kinstructions combine the fun of Shopkins with the interlocking blocks of Lego (though they are made by the Shopkins folks, not the Lego folks). Leah was shocked to get them.
I’m way behind posting things, but I’m going to do my best to catch up now. So, think back to the beginning of school, and I’ll walk you through to the present over the next week or so.
The girls have started school, and are doing great. They both love their teachers, and are busy with almost everything they possibly could be busy with at school.
We had a great time at the Back to School picnic again this year. I left early for a tennis match, so I don’t have many pictures. But before I left, I did get a picture of these birthday twins at the photo booth. It was a hit with all the kids just as it had been in previous years.
