08 August – Learning With My Boys

Preschool Sleeping Beauty Photoshoot

My granddaughter is 3 years old and loves to dress up as a princess. This month we chose Aurora from Disney’s Sleeping Beauty because I think of roses in late summer. Also, her dress is pink reminding me of August roses.

Princess Aurora is a loving, hopeful, joyful, graceful, imaginative 16 year old girl from medieval France. Her sidekicks are Flora, Fauna, Merryweather the good fairies.

Aurora quote: “They say if you dream a thing more than once, it’s sure to come true.”

Zephaniah 3:17 states, “The Lord your God is in your midst, the Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.”

We visited a local rose garden for this photoshoot. She wore the same Sleeping Beauty dress and her white dress shoes had a bow and a little strap. I curled her hair before we left the house and lastly we put in the gold and pink earrings. I bought gold glitter cardstock and made her necklace. This gold glitter cardstock was perfect for cutting and there was no mess. Then she just held the single red rose too.

Her are some more of my toddler and preschool photoshoots:

You might also enjoy some of my other Sleeping Beauty posts:

Ocean Theme School Lunches

We had a fun ocean themed lunch at school for our “Anchored” week at school. Each day we found creative ways to incorporate all of the food groups. We also had to keep the calories and sodium counts down to meet the state requirements for serving food to the school children.

We used clear plastic cups for the pudding, jello, and the banana cup. We also offered milk everyday even though it is not pictured.

Monday

Ham & Cheese Sea Monster Sandwich
Goldfish Crackers
Broccoli Ocean Sprouts
Coral Reef Fruit Cocktail
Shark Pudding (Gummy Sharks)

Tuesday

Fish Shape Nuggets
Barnacle Baked Beans
Sea Dragon Punch
Blueberry Bubbles
Teddy Graham Beach Jello (Umbrella Toothpick)

Wednesday

Peg Leg Chicken
Sea Shell Pasta Salad
Green Sea Beans
Dolphin Banana in Grapes
Mermaids Delight Ice Cream (Mermaid Sprinkles)

Thursday

Hot Dog Octopus on Seaweed Spaghetti
Crab Leg Carrot Sticks
Sea Cucumber Slices
Green Sea Turtle Apple

(We added the hotdog bun to get enough whole grain. And we added a banana, because we had extras left from yesterday.)

Friday

Sand Dollar Pancakes
Sea Foam Scrambled Eggs
Treasure Tater Tots
Poseidon’s Red Pepper Sticks
Orange Boats

You might enjoy some of my other party posts:

Newborn Purple Roses Photos

I love purple roses, and Rose is my middle name. We combined our names to come up with a middle name for our 6 day old newborn (Kellyrose).

My dad got me this newborn purple wrap set as a gift, and the picture ended up being darling!

So cute with her hands folded under her cheek like this. I love when her tiny hands cooperate with me!

This is the first time that I have taken naked pictures of a newborn… yes, she ended up peeing on my kitchen floor!

These close up photos of her sweet little face are some of my favorites!

Sweet, sweet smiles!

Newborn Sleeping Beauty Photos

My Sleeping Beauty is now 4 days old, and seems to sleep all the time. She is so beautiful with all of her brown hair and long arms and legs! I wanted to take some Disney’s Sleeping Beauty photos of her while she was still a brand new babe, so now we can remember these first days that seem to pass so quickly! I am also looking forward to taking future Sleeping Beauty photos with her.

She wore a pink newborn lacy bodysuit and her gold headband crown .

I hung a white sheet for the background and added a gold castle. I brought a newborn photo bed prop for her to lay on, and wrapped with a pink blanket around it. Then she just held the single red rose.

I used my EOS 2000D Canon Rebel Camera to take her princess photos. I also use my softbox photography lighting and backdrop rod to help.

Baby Princess Sleeping Beauty

Luke 8:24 “The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we’re going to drown!” He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm.”