The Dehrings

So I finished the first of two flower girl dresses for my sister’s wedding. Here it is:

The front

The back

Vallory’s will be the same except for the color will be Ivory!

Back of Vallory's dress

Front of Vallory's dress

Here are both dresses together.

Flower girl dresses

These girls will be the cutest ones at the wedding! Cannot wait to see them in it next weekend!

I just want to say a big thanks to all of those individuals who have served our country and are currently doing so. If it was not for all of you, we would not be able to enjoy the freedoms we currently do today. Thanks a bunch!

***” It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”

–General George S. Patton, Jr. (1885–1945)***

Kalyssa has had this really big interest of wanting to go to school. I have been really thinking about letting her attend preschool this coming fall. However, we have made some deals with her to get her pretty much to our standards of being officially ready to go. This week we have been working with Kalyssa on writing her letters and numbers. She has a little problem with writing the letters, but the numbers are coming along really well.

The other day, I started writing numbers 1-10 on a piece of paper in slashes so she could trace them and make those numbers. Here was her first attempt:

Writing numbers

So that same night, we went to Target and bought her a dry erase board that had all the numbers written out so she could trace them. This board also contained the whole alphabet and shapes.

Writing on the board

Once Kalyssa wrote the numbers for a few days, I showed her that the dry erase board had a solid sheet for writing. That is when she wrote 1-4 for the first time by herself (she attempted 5, but it was a no go).

Writing numbers for the first time.

I am so proud of this little girl. We will be continuing to work on these aspects as well as the tying of her shoe. She has the concept down for tying her shoe, but has not officially completed it yet.

As Kalyssa says, “I wanna go to school.” I hope she can by the fall!

My sister is getting married next month and I have offered to take the time to hand make the flower girl dresses for both Kalyssa and Vallory. This was a hard process. The main reason is that both of these little ladies are very thin and tall.  The size that I thought Kalyssa would fit perfectly into, was not even close to where she should have been. The pre-make dress for Vallory was the right size, but the arms were just a tad big.  So, I ended up finding the exact dress size for both of these young ladies.  The dress size is a one.

Here they are with their pre-makes…. (val’s dress is the final model for the flower dresses).

Kalyssa

Vallory

I cannot wait to see the final dresses all made in white satin with colored sashes.

Last weekend, while at Vanessa’s bridal shower, Kalyssa and Vallory both got to hold Maddy.

Kalyssa and Maddy.

Vallory and Maddy.