I don’t really know what to say…except these are my boys… The whole family! Christmas morning, take 3 Yes, that vest has working Christmas lights on it. John was always one for fashion. By the third time around, Elizabeth totally understood what to do with her stocking!
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Was this all really two and a half weeks ago? coloring with KK contemplating the Busses’ Christmas tree Uncle Matthew, on-demand reader First cookie! (Hello Dolly Cookies/Magic Cookie Bars/Puke Bars, depending on what you call them, don’t have eggs!) It was a big hit.
Tommy sings carols in the car
Posted in Tommy on Dec 22nd, 2010
Joy to the world! The Lord is come, let every single king, Let every car repair Him room, and heaven and nature sing…
Low-Key Preschool
Posted in Tommy on Dec 17th, 2010
We’ve been pretty low-key about preschool since the accident, but yesterday the kids were begging to play with stickers, so I pulled out our shapes and made some new patterns for Tommy. I’m really encouraged because he got them all right with no help, so I see real progress since we started working on patterns […]
The computer is reading my camera card again! It’s been so cold here that the kids have had to cook up a storm to keep away the chills… Okay, so her little brown butt really cracks me up in this picture, even though the lighting and angle is totally wrong. Tommy sets the timer while […]
One of the many downsides of living so far from family is that our kids never get to wake up on Christmas morning in their own house. Having put up with this in my own childhood, I was really determined this year to make up for it by making the preparations for Christmas really special. […]
This morning we were back to normal silliness after Tommy’s brief stomach bug. Elizabeth was all smiles… Tommy cracked us up by putting on his pants the wrong way (inspired by his sister’s attempts to dress herself)… And everyone was generally affectionate… Since we had our first real (=enough to play in) snow this morning, […]
Cookie Decorating
Posted in Elizabeth, Friends, Homemaking, Tommy on Dec 8th, 2010
This week I decided we needed to do something Christmasy to distract from last week’s events. So Tommy and I made homemade cut-out cookies Sunday (using Emily S’s classic Kingdom Group recipe), then we had our neighbors over to decorate Christmas cookies with us on Monday. The boys both frosted just two or three before […]