Back to School!

Well, it's that time of year again... time for another school year to begin.  Kaira is in the 3rd grade this year! And she's very excited about it.  

At home, getting ready for her first day of 3rd grade :)

Annual picture on the 

front steps at school

New backpack for the new year

Getting ready to go in to her new classroom

At her new desk

Kaira with her 

new teacher, 

Mrs. Crook

Kaira & I on the first day of school

The first day of school is always a half-day.  It's kind of become a tradition to go to this little place to eat lunch after her first day back each year. Besides having great food, they also have a dessert/pastry case up from that Kaira loves picking out a dessert from.  This year we got two different desserts and each had half of each.

Kaira with her half of the 

giant cookie she picked out.

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Fun at SciPort

Sci-Port, the Children's Science & Discover center in town, is one of our favorite places to go hang out when we have some free time.  While Lokei was up in Shreveport visiting, we all went for an afternoon to play around with all of the fun exhibits they have.  They also have daily hands-on projects at different stations throughout the day that change from day to day.  The one we stumbled upon this particular day was making Film Canister Rockets....

Measuring out the water

Using the pipette to transfer the water to the film canister (Probably would have been faster just to pour the water in, but they used the pipette because it was 'fun').

Then they added the Alka-Seltzer, put on the cap, flipped it over (cap-side down) and waited.....

I didn't catch the actual rocket in the picture, but you can see the bose on the table where it explosed, and the actual rocket is up in the air where Kaira is staring in amazement.  

Lying on a bed of nails!

Standing in the Tornado maker

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Lokei & Jamari's Birthdays

Lokei's Birthday cake

And the inside was tie-dyed colors

Jamari's car cake

Getting ready to blow out candles

Chuck E Cheese

The glasses Kaira won 

with all of her tickets

Picture from one of the little photo booth things 

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In the Kitchen

Kaira has been my helper in the kitchen for years.  She usually helps me make breakfast on the weekends... helping mix & prep.  She's finally big enough that I decided to let her have a try on the stove actually cooking and flipping the pancakes.  She was very excited about finally getting the chance to man the griddle.  And she did a great job!

Flipping her own pancakes

Showing off the pancakes she made... all by herself!  She was so proud.

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Bellydancing

Med school.... 4th (and final!) year

My school year started earlier than Kaira's (I started back at the beginning of July) so the school year is already in full swing for me.  On our first day back, we had to take our yearbook photos for the year, which this year are done in graduation robes.  Just got our class composite picture back... it's still a while til graduation, but it's exciting to see the official graduation pictures!