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More Family Meets Susanna
Posted in Elizabeth, Family, Susanna, Tommy on Dec 24th, 2011
Yesterday we drove over to Lansing to visit my mom’s family. No one had met Susanna yet! I have a picture of Grandpa and me in this pose when I was about Susie’s age. Lizzie playing with play-doh with Great-Aunt Terri! Susie putting on a little smile show for Rick and Becky Lizzie showing Great-Grandpa […]
Once again we’re not going to get to have Christmas at home (we’re heading to Detroit tomorrow, and yes, we’re counting down the hours and minutes until we see Grandma and Grandpa!), so we did our family Christmas on Saturday morning. My parents and Cammy were with us via googlechat, as the kids opened Willett […]
This week at Community Bible Study, they had all the kids come up and give a little Christmas performance. It was Tommy and Elizabeth’s first time on stage, so I prepped them for weeks in advance. I made Derek come in and film so that I could take pictures (we’ll try to get that uploaded […]
It took us multiple attempts, but this week we finally had Sarah and James over to decorate Christmas cookies with us! The DenHartogs are definitely our kind of people, and we’ve enjoyed getting together whenever all the kids are well enough. James is just a few months younger than Elizabeth, but he keeps up with […]
Susanna is fitting into a few more of my old clothes, so here’s a little photo shoot celebrating a second generation in the little red shirt: A good close-up of her new tooth! That is a loving stranglehold by Tommy…
Elizabeth is so funny. While helping me fold laundry yesterday, she realized that Susie has an ice skater shirt similar to the skater shirt Elizabeth was wearing. Nothing would do but to change Susie so that they could be “matching!”
Susanna is pretty coy when it comes to showing off her new tooth. You’ll notice that the gummy smile of olden days has been replaced by the barest raising of the cheeks. But that didn’t stop us from getting her her very first toothbrush! And thank goodness she has a big sister who is more […]
Our Latest Read Aloud
Posted in Children's Books, Elizabeth, Tommy on Dec 8th, 2011
Tommy is so excited about reading The Phantom Tollbooth with Daddy this week that he has been “reading” it to Elizabeth in the afternoons!