A star is born!

Big night for the fabulous Miss Laina! We attended her award ceremony for her acting company.  First was started off by getting Laina's hair done by our awesome hairdresser Jaime. She curled Laina's hair and she just looked so adorable and grown up!  Then we headed off to have a quick dinner and then to the ceremony.  All the kids walked in on the red carpet just like during the real Academy's.  They were interviewed about their role and experience right on the red carpet. The little kids took this all very seriously. It was adorable. The parents and family were all lined up on either side of the red velvet rope acting as "paparazzi" which was not a stretch at all for me!

Laina won two awards. The first award she received with her friend Lauren. The two girls played Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum in the Alice in Wonderland Play. They won the award for the best "tableau" which is their ability to freeze like a statute and not move. Later in the night Laina won the award for raising the most money during the bowling fundraiser!  She was so excited to be called up on stage. I took a small video clip of Ms. Ronda telling everyone about how much money Laina raised and how she wrote thank you notes to all her donors and Laina has probably watched that video 47 times in 2 days. I'm so completely thrilled for her. What a fun evening. On the ride home she sat in her car seat and said "well that was fun!"

First Tball Game of the Season

Laina's Bowl-A-Thon

Laina participated in the bowl-a-thon for her acting company ADAM and had a blast. First she had to raise money to participate. Her goal was to raise $100.  We sent out a letter from Laina and a letter from me to all our close friends and family explaining why Laina was involved in ADAM and why we needed to raise money for ADAM to stay open.  The donations started rolling in.  Laina raised an amazing $400 for her acting company! Every time a donation came in the mail, she was so excited. It was a great lesson for her to learn that the money she had asked for was not for her - but for someone else. Then came the day to bowl and all the kids had to dress in costume. Laina decided to dress as supergirl and and she did a SUPER job knocking down the pins!  What a fun time.

Beach!

Finally a day nice enough to head to the beach after school! I little windy right on the water but still very fun. Laina went into the water - crazy girl! It was cold!  Then back at home we had some fun swinging in the backyard. So very happy spring is here - what a long winter!

Happy Easter!

We had a pretty relaxing Easter here. Grampy came up for the weekend which Laina just loves. We started the morning with an indoor egg hunt and Laina had a great time going through her gifts from the Easter bunny!  She was so excited about one of the toys which she really wanted. It was sweet to see her reaction.  We had a nice dinner and just relaxed in the afternoon. When I put Laina to bed she said "I wish today was yesterday so that we could start this day all over again" which I thought was a pretty good indicator she had a great day!