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| I don't know why these two random pictures went to the top of the post but I can't figure out how to move them. |
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| Little E loves eating real food. Isn't he cute? |
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| We've each had a turn picking a book to read and this was Daniel's- The Christmas Cookie Sprinkle Snitcher |
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| Little E doesn't do many of the activities so I'm just throwing pictures in of his first Christmas :) |
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| Making Christmas cards- We never actually got to the card part. The kids wanted to make wreaths to put in the cards so they got their cousins done then left to deliver them because Daniel needed to pick something up from their house and we never made it back to finishing the cards. |
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| Downtown trip- horse and buggy ride |
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| Downtown trip- eating a snack |
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| Downtown trip- Little E's first carousel |
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Mr A- He has started taking
wrestling and he LOVES it! Daniel goes with him and helps out working with the
kids and it has been great for both of them.
We go to our friends house for preschool once a week. She and I take turns teaching and its just our kids. Its been fun...her daughter is 4 but is already learning to read so they are both doing a more Kindergarten type curriculum. Its been good for him, he's learning a lot. We do "mommy school" together but its fun to have one day to be with friends.
He has also been going to speech once a week but his teacher told me he's about done. He has worked hard at focusing on his sounds and is a lot better now at the C, G, L, and Th sounds.
He has been so cute about Christmas this year. He loves giving, so he has picked out toys of his and "wrapped" them and put them under the tree for friends and family. I'm not sure how many will actually be handed out and how many people will actually appreciate the thought that he puts into these used gifts, but I love him for doing it.
He has a CD of songs he asked
Daniel to burn for him that he likes to listen to. It consists of Aerosmith
"Dream On", Beach Boys "Surfin USA" and REM "I am Superman". How
funny.
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| Doesn't he look like his big brother as a baby? |
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| Miss H's book pick. She also picked I Love to See the Temple but since that isn't a Christmas book we let her pick two :) |
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| Mr A's letter to Santa. He wanted to go put it in the mailbox himself but he can't reach so he brought a stool :). It was in the evening and I watched him from the window marching off to the mailbox with the stool, in the dark, by himself to send his letter- it was very cute. |
Little E- As I mention down below,
he loves climbing. He doesn't crawl yet but he scooches everywhere and if there
is anything he can get up and over he will.
We've started giving him some
real food which he loves. He's not super crazy about most baby food but toast,
rolls, noodles, and cheerios are his favorites. And he still loves to
nurse.
He is such a happy good baby. I
love his cute little personality and listening to him babble and play and giggle
is a lot of fun.
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| This kid loves to climb already! |
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| Mr A's book pick |
Miss H- She is busy trying to
potty train herself. So far I haven't mentioned it or done anything other than
take her diaper off when she says she has to go and then celebrate and give her
a treat when she's done (so when I do actually potty train her if she doesn't
succeed in doing it herself, she will think positively about it). She has been
going a lot the last few days but we'll see what happens.
For her we do music time with
friends once a week. Its actually for all of the kids but mostly geared towards
her age. It has been fun. We usually do it at our house and we just sing fun
songs, sometimes read a book, eat a snack, and play.
The last few days she has been
more clingy than usual and I am loving it. She has always been great at playing
by herself and usually isn't overly lovey so I'm enjoying all of the extra hugs
and cuddles.
Miss H has also been cute about
Christmas. She talks about what she wants for "her birthday" (which means
Christmas). She talks about how Christmas is Jesus' birthday and she talks about
how santa says ho, ho, ho. She did not like sitting on santas lap
though.
She is still very helpful and
cute and protective with her baby brother. She LOVES babies. Real ones and not
real ones.
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| We wanted to do service but we
had a hard time coming up with something the kids could do that would be
meaningful. At the last minute we came up with the helping elves idea. We
started at home and each of them secretly cleaned the other person's room and
left a treat to show that an elf did it. Miss H still talks about how an elf
cleaned her room and left her a treat. Mr A wanted to wear green so he would
look more like an elf :). We then headed off to an undisclosed location to do a
little more secret elf work. It was a fun day and it is something I want to
expand on and do every year.
Some other things we've done that
I didn't get pictures of is deliver toys to a toy drive, drive around to look at
Christmas lights, go to jump planet, and watch home videos together. And just in
case you're dying of curiosity, my book pick was The Berenstein Bears Think of
Those in Need. Coming up we have things like watching a Christmas movie,
delivering cookies to neighbors, play a board game, go on a treasure hunt, have
a pillow fight, bundle up and take a walk, and act out the nativity. It's been
a fun month and it helps the kids not be too antsy for Christmas because they
understand that "Christmas Time" is so much fun and once Christmas is
here Christmas Time is over.
Daniel has been super busy with
work and his calling at church working with the youth but we are so grateful for
him. He always spends all of him time at home with me and the kids and helping
out as much as he can. Miss H will tell you whenever anything breaks that daddy
can fix it and she is always right :).
If you spend a day with me you'll
see that life with three young and active kids at home can be crazy. The house
is usually messy and there are often behaviors that need to be worked on but I
can't complain.
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