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, Family, Susanna, Tommy on Dec 22nd, 2012
The kids are going to be quite the Christmas experts by the end of the month…this week, we celebrated “Christmas morning” with Grandma and Grandpa, opening presents from them and Peter & Cammy. (John, yours arrived too late–we’ll do them on real Christmas morning.) I didn’t get many pictures, because I was mainly trying to […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Family, Susanna, Tommy on Dec 21st, 2012
Posted in Homeschooling, Tommy on Dec 17th, 2012
In my last kindergarten update post, I think I was still at the stage of trying to cut it down to the bare basics. For a month or so in there, we just did Bible, phonics, math, and handwriting, for a total of one hour or less per day. Tommy pleasure reads, draws, and builds […]
This year has been a little disappointing on the Christmas music front. Elizabeth was too sick to go to CBS yesterday, so only Tommy got to sing in the children’s program Christmas recital. And the lighting was terrible, so the pictures are rough. He did a great job, though, singing the loudest of any kid […]
Posted in Tommy on Dec 12th, 2012
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Susanna, Tommy on Dec 10th, 2012
We spent Sunday afternoon up at the Santa Barbara Zoo’s Snow Leopard Festival. The way people out here do “winter” is to import a bunch of fake snow and then charge parents an arm and a leg to stand in line for 15 minutes at a time so that the kids can “sled” down a […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Tommy on Nov 28th, 2012
This actually happened a couple weeks ago, but I never got around to posting the pictures. This year, we did a real Christmas ornament-making extravaganza. The kids love messy art projects, so I’m trying to get back into doing them now that I’m no longer tossing my cookies. We used the recipe and baking directions […]
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Family, Susanna, Tommy on Nov 23rd, 2012
This year, we introduced Grandma and Grandpa and Uncle Matthew to the joys of cutting down your own tree. Last year we walked down to the tree lot (just outside our subdivision) in flip flops and sweated buckets sawing and sawing at the tree. This year Derek literally had the whole tree cut in under […]
We’re stretching out Christmas this year, celebrating our first Christmas morning today with Grandma and Grandpa Muller and Uncle Matthew. Same Christmas pajamas as last year–they still fit in them (though Susie’s are a bit small)! Matching dresses! (And Elizabeth is relieved that she doesn’t have to share Betsy anymore!) Now I’m off to start […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Friends, Homeschooling, Tommy on Nov 12th, 2012
I’m trying hard to do more messy art projects with the kids now that we’re officially doing kindergarten, and I got this idea on pinterest. We harvested the seeds from a couple of our smaller pumpkins, painted them, and used them to make autumn tree art projects with our friend James. I helped Elizabeth with […]