Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Be mine!


After conversation heart Bingo - he's shoveling them into his pocket
(that reminds me, I should check to see if they are still there before we wash)

Each kid passed out all their valentines


The cute Valentine bags

Yummy!

Ooo!

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Monday, January 30, 2012

It's the 100th Day of School

The kids were so excited to celebrate the 100th day of school. Nathan and I have been practicing counting by 10's to 100. He loves it! He was singing that it's his favorite number. (in truth, I think his fav is 122, because that's the number he's been using for everything)
They counted out 10 of each snack(10) to have 100.
Nathan skipped the jelly beans and gummy bears, he doesn't like those

Counting out their collections they brought to school


It's been a fun year. Nathan has learned a lot so far. He's 5 1/2 now. Weighs 48lbs and stands 47 1/2 inches. He learned to tie his shoes a few months ago. He loves to write, and read. He has a small selection of sight words he knows. And can sound out simple words. He can count to 100 with a little bit of help by 1's and on his own by 10's. He writes his first and last name uppercase and lowercase. It's pretty cute because he sings his last name - his doing. He has a pretty loose tooth right now. I suspect within the next 2 weeks I'll be posting a lost tooth picture. He's getting better at skating and swimming. We just started swim and gym again. He's glad to be back, especially swimming. He swims the width of the pool and has started to learn freestyle with side breathing. It's pretty cute! Nathan loves being outside, exploring or collecting random things. He has a great imagination and still coaxes his sister into a game every now and then. He is a boy who knows what he likes, no question about it. His last birthday he decided what his birthday theme would be for 6 years down the road. I didn't know if he'd remember, but the other day he brought up his Alien cake for his 6th birthday. 6! Can you believe he'll be 6 this summer. Crazy! Anyway, that's a little about Nathan these days.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Christmas 2011

Highlights of Christmas

Owen

Cousins in Christmas Jammies

snowballs for dessert

Christmas Morning



Kindlle touch


necklace from Grandma


Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Graham Cracker Village

I finally had time this morning for a little blog update. I figured I'd better get it done before more fun stuff needs to be blogged about.

We got together this last weekend for our traditional graham cracker village creation

Teresa and I worked on the Up house together

Nathan wanted a tall roof on his this year
This is Ty's masterpiece - no really, it's a theater. Cool huh?

This is Serina's, she didn't get a chance to finish decorating it, so I helped her out

This is Ryan's

Nathan's

Ian's

Luke's

The whole thing. There weren't as many this year

Our UP house, with snow

Teresa made a Snipe and a hose, so cute!

Then we opened gifts. The girls in their tutu's

The boys with their hobby horses (I had the best time making these)

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Let's catch up a lil'


Here's a little Thanksgiving fun. Nathan won tic-tac-toe

One of the many holiday projects




Nathan decorating the tree




Teresa and Jazzi decorating the tree -
 yes, she made the cat help


And the finished product.
They did a great job!
The kitty keeps trying to undo it.



A little time with Owen

There have been lots of germs too. One week Teresa had no voice, last week it was me - still recovering. Does this mean we'll be good for Christmas?!
We have a fun week ahead of us.
Teresa's Choir concert
Santa visit
Cookies with Grandma
Company Party(just the mom and dad)
and
Graham Cracker village creation