First Bike!!!!

We have been telling Kassi that in order to get new things she was going to have to either give away some of the things she was too big for or did not play with, or she could sell them at our yard sale.  I was so proud of her she gave her tricycle and a little four wheeler to a friend of ours for their little girl.  So I had to hold up my end of the deal and last night we went to Walmart to get her first bike.  She had already rode all of them around the store last weekend and she knew which one she wanted.  When we got there last night they did not have the one she wanted, but she did find one that she liked so off we went with her first bike.

There was no hesitation on her part and as soon as dad got her lined out off she went and she rode a very long ways for her first time.  She even figured out how to use her brakes!  I'm so proud of her!

Growing

Kassi has had an incredible growth spurt here recently.  Even to look at her you can see her legs have stretched out and her feet are finally catching up with the rest of her.  So much so that we had to go and buy all new shoes last weekend.  She had just moved into an 8 a couple of months ago.  She hadn't even worn some of the shoes we had bought her for summer.   That will teach me to be buying things for different seasons!  This is the first time this has happened her feet have always been very small and have grown very slowly, until now.  For whatever reason in the last week or so he had noticed some of her shoes were starting to be a bit tight, then on Monday I went to put on a pair that had been too big and they were too small.  That was it we had to go shoe shopping.  After trying on all of her 20 some odd pairs of shoes (I know that is insane, right!) we found two pair that still fit properly and then we were off to the Memorial Day sales.  We were able to get some nice shoes on sale at good prices.  Hopefully these ones will last a little longer than the 8's did!  Since we bought all new shoes at once we did cut her back to one pair of each kind of shoe, a dressy set, a pair of sandals, a pair of cowboy boots, a pair of tennis shoes, a pair of hiking boots and a pair of snow boots that are two sizes too big, I'm hoping big socks and she can wear them next winter.

We also had to go through all of her clothes as she now had high waters with most of her pants and her dresses were getting a bit too short for mom's standards.

My baby is growing up!

Rainy Day Fun

It  has been raining for what feels like forever.  I think we are all tired of being cooped up in the house and even though there have been a couple of days where the sun came out it was really too muddy to go out.  Anyway we have had come up with new rainy day things to do.  This week Kassi decided she wanted to make a pinata.  After watching several video clips online she found one she liked and I was okay with the supplies and plaster materials so we decided to try it.

Kassi wanted her pinata to be really strong and the things we read and watched said it needed a minimum of three layers and to be strong should have six layers.  Each layer took a full day due to dry time.  On the fourth day she decided it was strong enough and she was done.  I went ahead and put one extra layer on it for her.

Today we finished decorating and stuffing the pinata.  Kassi is so excited and I think it looks kind of cool.  It is sad to think that it will only take a couple of hits and it will be all over!  I promised Kassi a picnic with her friends and the pinata next weekend if it is nice.  So hopefully we will see the sun this week and she can have her party.

Kassi's First Dance Recital

Kassi had her first dance recital on Friday night.  She did really well.  I wish I could get the video to load so that everyone could see it, but for whatever reason I cannot get it to upload anywhere.  :(  So instead everyone just gets to see the pictures. 

After her first dance she told me she loved the stage and always wanted to be on the stage.  I asked her if that meant she was going to dance again next year and she said she will always want to dance so she can be on stage.

I have to admit this was all a little hard on me for a couple of reasons...I am not one to let my daughter out of my sight.  She only stays with a couple of people when we are not with her and in order to watch her dance I had to let her out of my sight and leave her backstage so I could go back out into the audience...absolutely terrifying for me!  It also made me really see that my baby girl is growing up and wanting to do things on her own.  She was okay with mom leaving her backstage, she wanted mom to let her stay backstage with the other kids.  "Sigh"  I don't think I am ready for this...

On our way!

Singing and dancing outside.

Waiting backstage.

The finale.