This Is What Happens When I Go Upstairs To Do Laundry

She even signed her name, just so I would be sure it was her. This is not even half of it. Gotta laugh to keep from crying! Atleast it wasn't permanent felt marker.

Chloe Loves "Bloop Bloops" (Fruit Loops)

Christmas 2008

Here are a few pictures from our 2008 Holiday Season:

Gymnastics

Here are a few pictures and videos of the girls in gymnastics. The pictures are quite blurry because you are not allowed any flash in the gym. I couldn't get any recognizable pictures of Isabelle, just videos.


Lily on the high beam. Her teacher is there just in case, but she can actually do it by herself:




Lily doing a "Stork Stand":


Mommy and Chloe stepping over the animals:

Mommy and Chloe on the low beam:

This is a video of one of their previous sessions, doing a bear crawl:

Izzy on the rings. She can hold herself up there pretty well!

Here is Chloe and Daddy on the lower beam. She's got pretty good balance! His isn't bad either :)

Lily jumping over animals on the very low beam:

Here are Izzy and Lily "crab walking" on the double bars:

Oh Christmas Tree...

Mary Had a Little Lamb and Ring Around the Rosie

Be sure to pause the playlist music so you can hear Izzy's Piano Playing!

Also, here are a few pictures of our new place. We are more unpacked than these pictures show. It really isn't that spectacular, but we are happy with it, and happy that it is ours!

The backyard. Too bad it has been too cold to play outside lately.

Chloe's room.


Isabelle and Lily's room.

The girls love to watch shows on the "little TV" as shown here.

Izzy's 1st Report Card

So Isabelle was given her first Report Card, and last week we had our first parent-teacher interview with her teacher. We are so happy with everything her teacher had to say about Izzy! She said that Isabelle is learning the letters well, can identify them by the sound they make, and she can resolve basic math problems without help from the teacher. She wrote, "Isabelle is quite interested in learning Spanish. Not only can she name the important words in the classroom, but she asks me how she can say things and always tries to communicate with me in Spanish. Isabelle can understand the basic grammar rules and the common Spanish sentences I use during the day." She is always asking how she say things in Spanish at home too. We are so glad to hear she is doing well in Kindergarten and that she enjoys being there. She loves going to Kindergarten and being with her teacher and friends. That makes us so happy!

Her teacher also said she enjoys music class and participates well in the activities. Isabelle has recently asked me to teach her to play a song on the piano, and so I taught her "Mary had a Little Lamb". Now that is all we hear all day long! I want to put her in piano lessons before I teach her bad habits. Maybe in the New Year.

On another note, we are done moving!!!! There are still a few things left to unpack and organize, but we are pretty much settled and it is starting to feel a little more like home. Especially now that we have heat, and a connected phone line. For the first two days, there was no heat or hot water, and no phone. We are forever grateful for the Marusiaks for opening up their home to us during that time. We are also really glad to be done renting and own our first place. The camera is still in a box somewhere, so no pictures this time, but I will get some on here soon.