Starting young

UKanani has always enjoyed helping me out in any way possible.  She's always telling me "I want to help".   She has such a helpful spirit about her,  God has truly blessed me with her, she is such an awesome help.  No matter what I need she is always willing to lend a hand.  

SWEEPING

MOPPING

Even little man likes to mop 

CAR WASH

Anything dealing with water is always fun.  Don't need much convincing her when it comes to washing the car just because she knows she will get soaked.  

I love finding ways to get her involved in things around the house.  We believe in giving her responsibilities around the house and not paying her for it.   In other words not paying her to do chorus.  We believe that everyone should do their part in the house.   Kanani gets an allowance but for other things: for example doing things without being told, good grades, and good behavior.  She gets a monthly amount of $20 and it gets divided into 3 tins.  First tin: Tithes (10% of her allowance $2), Second tin: Savings ($10),  and Third tin: Spending ($8).  

We first started when she turned 4 but realized that she wasn't quite ready to grasp the concept of it, so we decided to wait another year.  Now that she is 5 she understands more and gets very excited each time she gets her allowance and any extra money.  She quickly divides the money into each tin.  She's learned to save her money when she sees something she wants to buy.  It has also helped stop her for always asking if she could have something whenever we go out.  She now knows that if she really wants it mami or daddy aren't going to buy it for it she has to save her money for it.  

Field Day

Today was Field Day at our Homeschool Co-op.  Got to say our leaders did an amazing job in organizing everything and making sure everything ran smoothly.  It was so much fun being able to enjoy everything with my princess and her friends.

Our group of beautiful girls.  On the back of the card was the order of events in which we were to go too.

BEAN BAG TOSS

Our first station was the bean bag toss.  Each one had to throw 3 bean bags to different steps of the ladder.  From the bottom up numbers 100-500.  These girls have great throwing arms.

RELAY RACE

This station was a lot of fun with different types of obstacles for the girls to do.  First they had to hula hoop 5 times, then bounce a basketball to the bat, once at the bat they had to place their head on it and run around in circle 5 times.  After which they had to try to run to where their were some crackers.  They had to chew some crackers and try to whistle.  Finally they had to run back with a beach ball and hand it to the next person to go.  

TUG OF WAR

Here is your basic tug of war game which had these girls full of giggles.  

3-LEGGED RACE

The girls had to work together during this station of 3-legged race, it was so cute to watch them work as a team.

POTATO SACK RACE

They had such a blast with the potato sack race, of course by the time we got to this station they were already a bit worn out.  The girls only went once.

EGG-ON-A-SPOON RACE

First the girls had to walk back and forth with an egg on a spoon, then they tossed an egg to a teammate trying not to break it.

WATER RELAY

This one helped the girls cool off a little bit, having fun with water.  They had to run to a bucket with a cup that had holes on the bottom and dump the water out.  First they had to run to the bucket then they had to hop on one foot. They had such a blast.

BEACH BALL GOLF

Each child had to stand by a cone and then they had to toss a rubber ball to each other.  Once they got to the end the final person had to run to the front of the line and do this all over again.  

AWARDS/RIBBON

Each child had received a ribbon of participant.  Loved how they made this event based on fun instead of a competition.  

H.E.A.R.T. OF RAEFORD GROUP

Some of our great group of kids in our co-op.

LITTLE MAN

He loved touching the tree and looking at the details on it.

SO SERIOUS

He has such a serious look on his face.  

Soccer

Our princess soccer picture, she has really enjoyed playing the sport.

Looks so big in this picture.

Little man and me enjoying watching K practice.

Strawberry Picking

We went to Gillis Hill Farm to go strawberry picking.  We've been doing this for years, since K was one.  This year was little man's first time.  Love how we continue our sweet traditions.

Our beautiful babies

Love how red looks on her.  She has always enjoyed strawberry picking.

He didn't know what to do with the strawberries.  Little man mostly wanted to squish them.

Love seeing the beautiful bond between the kids and Rey.  He is such a great dad, husband, and my best friend.

She wanted to pick all the strawberries she could, even though our basket was already full.

K was so excited to see her friend Lizzy and her brother Cole at the strawberry patch.  Once she saw them she wanted to go by their side and help them fill their buckets.  The kids were so excited when Lizzy's dad found a lady bug.  Love seeing how the simple things make them happy.