I have so many little matters to tell you of, that I cannot wait any longer before I begin to put them down.
Posted in Elizabeth, Homemaking on Oct 15th, 2012
After reading some Little House in the Big Woods this morning, Elizabeth has totally been inspired to help Mommy around the house. We made everyone’s beds, put all the books away on the right shelves, and folded diapers and wipes together!
I feel like my blog posts of late have been variations on a theme–Tommy is reading or riding bikes, Elizabeth is dancing, Susie is trying on other people’s shoes. Here are scenes from the last couple of days. Somebody fell asleep reading Winnie-the-Pooh… Having “crashed” both real bikes and the baby scooter, Tommy turns to […]
Elizabeth’s ballet class was divided by age at the beginning of the school year, so for the past several weeks, it’s just been Elizabeth and three sisters in the 3-5 class. Since the other family is out of town for a wedding, this week’s class was really a private lesson. Susie is always wanting to […]
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Friends, Homeschooling, Susanna, Tommy on Oct 5th, 2012
It is so nice to know people where we live. Last year, we visited the pumpkin patch by ourselves. This year, we went with a homeschool group from church, and the kids had ten times as much fun running around with their friends! Tommy recently met his new friend Jonah at Community Bible Study, and […]
On Friday, our friend James came over to play–and he brought a whole bag of dress-up clothes with him! As soon as we saw that James had a flight suit, Tommy ran and put on his own flight suit so that they could be astronaut firefighters together. Then Elizabeth found a generic costume that we […]
It took a while to get the girls into their grass skirts and facing the same direction…the first night, Susie melted down during the gift opening. Then she wouldn’t hula with her sister. But we finally figured out that Tommy and Elizabeth just needed to quickly move to wherever Susanna was standing, and I’d snap […]
Posted in Elizabeth on Sep 17th, 2012
In the past couple of weeks, Elizabeth has discovered the joys of trying on Mommy’s shoes. And as Susanna does everything her sister does, she tries them on, too (though usually she needs some help actually getting them on her feet). I keep all of our shoes except Derek’s work shoes in our front closet, […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Sep 14th, 2012
After 13 weeks, we can let out the secret! There aren’t just five of us anymore! Susie’s getting some practice in on being a big sister–she’s glad she finally has someone smaller to sit on her lap! The girls and I saw a healthy baby on the ultrasound today (Tommy, to his chagrin, missed the […]
The big kids had their dentist’s appointments this morning, and we had some good news and bad news. The good news is that Tommy, who bravely got x-rays, is doing great! He’s brushing and flossing well, and he has no cavities. Keep up the good work, Tommy! The bad news is that Elizabeth’s thumb sucking […]
And Elizabeth was up at 5:45 this morning, crying because Daddy had left for Texas. This is what I get for bragging about everyone sleeping in yesterday!