Ready to Read!!

We had a parent/teacher conference last week. Our girl is academically doing off the charts... Literally! She's counting to 100, knows letters, is correctly writing most letters and numbers (and writes them all well enough to know them), Is doing patterns and rhyming... You get get point :) She's ready for kindergarten! Actually during the talk it also came up that she even ready to take the next step and start... Reading!!! She loves books so much I can't wait so here's our first set of true early readers... They just came!

Happy belated Mardi Gras! Hello Lent!

Mardi Gras is a big deal around Sasha's school so they celebrate quite a bit.  Last Saturday, we (minus Sash) went to a large Mardi Gras themed fundraiser put on by the Mother's Club... it was a BLAST! Then Tuesday Sash had a parade, decorated masks, there were beads... fun for all! 
Here's pic of our girl at school today with her mask from the parade:

So now it's Ash Wednesday and time for Lent! From the picture, I think Sash already received her ashes today in school.  J and I will be going tonight. This year I'll be reading Welcome Risen Jesus with Sasha each night through Lent.  We have a similar book for Advent that we've used for two years now and I love it.  Sasha actually looked forward to the readings this year.  I also have my own daily devotions/readings as well for each day.  Once Easter comes, hopefully we'll both have gained some things in this journey.

Blessings to all of you as we enter this Lenten season!!