Category: Tyra

Tyra’s troop has finished daisies, and that means it’s time to cross the bridge to brownies! They had a little ceremony to celebrate, and each of the girls got to actually cross a bridge:

Here is her whole troop:

After all the girls crossed the bridge we had hamburgers and hot dogs for dinner, then the rain stopped and the kids got to go out and play with water balloons, and hit the pinata. Tyra has had lots of fun in girl scouts these past two years, and is really looking forward to being a brownie next year.

Check out all the patches for all the fun things Tyra did while she was in daisies:

Tyra had been sent to her room to sit on her bed because she was being naughty in the backyard (climbing on the playhouse when she’d already been told that’s not allowed). And she decided that she was going to take my camera with her. Kyle and I were out in the garage doing it’s spring clean out so we didn’t know anything about it, until I found the pictures….

In addition to her taking pictures of just the random piles of mess or the wall, or the pictures on the walls she decided to try making faces at the camera and taking pictures of herself:

Definitely some weird faces there. Now she’s in even more trouble 😛

Tyra has a wiggly tooth. Every night at bedtime she has been claiming that tonight is the night that it’s going to come out. Kyle tries to yank it and it doesn’t budge. Of course Tyra is a very over dramatic girl and is totally dramatizing over this wiggly tooth. Tonight she looks like this:

Excuse the messy face, we were eating dinner when she discovered that she could push her tooth out like that. Then a few minutes later she took a bite and it popped out.

 

Tyra has been begging us to let her invite some friends over for a birthday party. We actually got so busy last year that we just never had a friend party for her and she reminded us of that ALL YEAR LONG. She would randomly break down and freak out that she didn’t get a friend party like Ethan did. And since she is a very social little girl, she wasn’t happy about that. So this year she kept asking about it, and I didn’t know what to say since I didn’t know how things were going to work out with having the baby. Well Lydia was born and we’ve just kind of been surviving trying to find a new groove, but the birthday party topic came up again recently and we decided to just do it and have it over with.

Tyra passed out a few invitations to her friends. Our rule is you get one package of invitations and that’s all you get to invite. Well Tyra showed us a glitch in that rule. She picked a bunch of her friends and wanted to invite their sisters too! So each invite that went out was actually inviting 2 girls!

The day of the party I made a carrot cake, and filled the pinata that I had previously bought. Then I realized that I couldn’t find the rope that we had to hang the pinata with so I decided to pick some up when I went out to get pizza for lunch (which is what we had decided on serving at the party. Well 11 am came, and then it went, and nobody showed. We kept waiting and nobody came. Eventually I decided that we just needed to feed our kids, so I went out to get some pizza so we could just have the party with just us. Going into town was a challenge. I guess there had been a parade going through the Ranches and there were people everywhere, and traffic was moving extremely slow. I wondered if maybe that might be why nobody showed, because they all had gone to the parade?

When I got home we ate and the kids were so excited to eat their pizza outside at the picnic table. And I started wondering what to do with the filled pinata. Kyle decided to take Tyra down to see if one of her friends was home, and they had just got back from the parade (see I thought so). So they brought her friend and her sister over, and we did the pinata.

I can’t remember if Chloe has ever been around to hit a pinata before, but she seemed to take it very seriously. 🙂

We could see that the pinata had a large crack in it and one good hit and it was done for so before letting Ethan take a real swing at it, Kyle asked him to pose for me so I could get a picture.

It totally looks like he’s posing too. Silly boy.

After the pinata had been busted open all the kids collected their goodies, and then I went to fill a bunch of water balloons. Then the kids had a water balloon fight, but everybody wanted to be on the purple team, so Jeremy and Chloe on the orange team had balloons long after everyone else had thrown the last purple balloon. Those balloons were popped way faster than it took to fill them, and the kids begged for more. But my fingers still hurt from filling the last ones, so I told them to talk to daddy. I think he filled some, but not as many as I had filled.

All in all the kids had a good time, and I think in the future I’m going to have to rethink how we do birthday parties. I mean having a family party and a friend party every year for every kid is just going to get crazy. Maybe we’ll just do family parties, and let the birthday kid invite one or two friends to that and just be done with it, we’ll see.