Hi everyone! I hope all of you had as wonderful of a time celebrating Christmas with your families this week as we did! We started on Christmas Eve with the children's live nativity service at Grace Covenant. There were real live goats and chickens and even people dressed up as Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus, the shepherds, and the wise men! Liam and I got to go and sit up front to watch it all with the other kids, and we did great! We both sat quietly and watched the whole time. It was so amazing to see the Christmas story of Jesus's birthday!
Family picture in the manger after church
Playing in the nativity after service with our cousin James
Mommy can't believe how fast I'm growing up!
After church, we went home to have a yummy family dinner of lasagna and birthday cake for Jesus. Yummy! Then we fixed a plate of cookies and a carrot for Santa and his reindeer and headed up to bed so he could come!
Cookies for Santa and a carrot for his reindeer
Christmas morning we slept in until 7, which is really late for Liam! We woke up and headed downstairs to see if Santa came, and guess what?! He did! He brought me the Frozen robe that I asked for AND a Frozen nightgown, too! He brought Liam a really cool car track. He also brought us lots of goodies in our stockings, which I was super excited about opening! Check it out!
Liam loves his new car track!
My Frozen robe is so soft and cozy!
After stockings, Nana and Papa came over and we had monkey bread for breakfast and then opened presents at home from Mommy and Daddy. I got some really cool and pretty things. I think my favorite is a fancy pink dress with gold sparkles. Liam's favorite is a toy that goes on the fridge where he can build all different kinds of cars, trucks, and boats with magnets. He also really likes the soft Spiderman doll that I got for him. Mommy and Daddy opened presents, too. Liam and I got Daddy some awesome Star Wars legos.
After presents at our house, it was time to head over to Nana and Papa's house to open more presents with Mommy's whole family and eat a delicious dinner that Daddy and Nana cooked. Nana and Papa spoiled me a little bit at Christmas this year! Nana made me a beautiful Cinderella dress from the new Cinderella movie, and Papa made me an awesome closet for all of my dress-up clothes! AND they gave me a brand new doll with her very own matching Cinderella dress and LOTS of other clothes! Her name is Sydney Lee, and I LOVE her. Liam got some more really cool things, too. He got a drum full of all kinds of different music toys that are super noisy! Mommy and Daddy said that toy has to stay in our basement. We got to see our family open the presents that we got for them, too, which was really special. We drew names this year (except for Nana & Papa), and I got Uncle Chris. I also helped make a special heart-shaped stepping stone for Nana's garden with Liam's and my footprints on it. I loved watching everyone open the gifts I got for them!
Ready to open presents
I was so excited to open my beautiful Cinderella dress!
Check out the dress-up closet Papa made me.
Sydney Lee and me in our matching dresses
Thank you, Nana!!!
Liam loves playing his drum!
2 silly boys crashed on the couch after presents
Hugs with fun Uncle Chris
Hanging out on the couch with Aunt Meredith and Uncle Chris
After presents we ate our delicious dinner and red velvet souffles for dessert. Yum yum yum! Then it was time to get in our jammies and head home for bed after a busy and super fun day. We were really good all day long, but we were definitely tired! We even slept in until 7:30 this morning! Now we're really excited because GiGi and Daideo and Sean are coming tomorrow, and we get to have one more Christmas celebration with them! I can't wait!!!
Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Life has been pretty busy! We're getting ready for another baby brother at my house in February. Plus, I've been getting busier and busier with activities. I took a soccer class at school this fall, which was really fun. I've been going to Sunday School and Awakening to Worship (that's what we call our children's service) every week, and I even sang with the children's choir for the first time at our Christmas concert last week. My very favorite thing, though, is still dance! I have ballet class every Thursday night at Crescendo Conservatory, and I absolutely love it. We found out about Crescendo last year at the Nutcracker Tea Party, and then we moved in April and our new house is really close to their studio, so I started going. So of course, we had to go back this year to the Nutcracker Tea Party again and see some of the big kids from my studio dance!
Grace, my favorite big girl from my ballet studio, got to play the Sugar Plum Fairy!
Posing with one of the helpers from my class
I loved this angel costume.
The snow queen
Lots of my friends came to the show, too, including my best friend from church, Abigail, and her sister Olivia!
I absolutely loved the show this year! I decided that when I get bigger, I'm going to be in it. I think I would like to be a flower and dance in the Waltz of the Flowers, but we'll see! For now, I just have to keep practicing!
Hi everyone! Sorry I haven't written in a while. It's been a very busy, fun summer for me and my family. It started at the beginning of June with my very first week ever of Vacation Bible School at my church, Grace Covenant. I had so much fun! I was nervous on the first morning because there were lots of kids and it was really noisy and crazy, but by the second day I was over it. The theme was the Surf Shack, so the church was all decorated like the beach!
Practicing my surf moves
My class was called the guppies. We were the youngest class, and guppies are really small fish just like we were the smallest kids. Every morning we went to the sanctuary first with all of the other classes with music and a show with Skippy the skipper and Snappy the crab. Then we left and went as a class from room to room around the church for different activities. There was recreation, music, crafts, science, story time, and of course, snack time. My favorite was music. I loved learning all the dance moves! Each day we learned something new about the amazing things God does for us. Then at the end, it was back to the sanctuary for more music and a show all together talking about what we learned that day.
Some of my class, the Guppies
Practicing dance moves in music
More music time
My favorite snack day: ocean crackers c icing and goldfish
Beach jello was pretty good, too.
Sitting with my class praying before snack time
I learned so much about God and how he creates, helps, and loves! I can't wait to go back to VBS next year!
Hey everyone! Last week I turned 15 months old! I've been super busy this summer learning how to walk and talk more, traveling with my family, swimming, and getting into lots of trouble!
15 months old 7/20/16
Stats:
Weight: 27 lbs 3 oz (88th percentile)
Height: 31 in (45th percentile)
Clothes size: 24 mos/2T
Diaper size: 5
Teeth: 10 (2 top molars this month!)
Yummy strawberries
Enjoying summer
I love sitting in my doggy's bed!
Let's go Royals!
I still love the water!
What's New:
-I can walk! I still like to hold Mommy or Daddy's hand, but I can do it all by myself when I want to. I took my first steps last month at 14 months old.
-I can say and sign lots of new words, like "please," "car," "cracker," "cat," and "beep." I can also say lots of new names, including "Nana," "Papa," "Daideo," and "Gigi." It makes my grandparents happy!
-I know some animal sounds, like "moo" and "neigh."
-I love to tell everyone "hi" and give high fives, even strangers.
-I'm learning how to use a spoon and fork.
Eating applesauce with a spoon like a big boy
First trip to the ocean - June 2016
Driving the ship on the beach house porch
Driving a real boat with Daddy at the lake
4th of July at Tablerock Lake
My cousin James and I both LOVE corn on the cob!
Sometimes I can't make it through lunch these days...
Likes:
-Swimming and splashing in the pool or bathtub
-Playing ring around the rosie and row, row, row your boat
-Pushing my shopping cart and crashing it into the furniture (or people!)
-Dancing and making music by banging on the piano and drumming on pots and pans
-Playing on the bed and the couch
-Favorite foods: bananas, blueberries, grapes, peanut butter and jelly, macaroni and cheese, yogurt, and applesauce
-Favorite books: Little Blue Truck and Pete the Cat: I Love my White Shoes Video:
Check out this video of me practicing some of my first steps last month:
I've been taking a dance class at my preschool this spring, and last Thursday we had a special day where all of our parents got to come and watch us. I LOVE to dance all around the house and wear my ballet clothes almost everyday while I'm at home, but this was my very first time performing in front of anyone besides my family. I did a great job! I was so brave, and I had soooooo much fun! Mommy and Daddy were so proud of me and said I was the star of the show. What do you think?
Here I am introducing myself at the beginning of the show:
This is the first song we danced to, the Tippi Toes song (that's the name of the company who teaches my class):
And this was my favorite, the Sleeping Ballerina song:
Here are a few silly pictures from the show, too. It was so much fun!
Shaking my hips
Bunny hops are so silly!
Airplane arms?
Plie in first position so I could get a stamp at the end
Hi everybody! Last week I turned 1 year old, which is 12 months. That means this is my last monthly update for a while. What a fast and crazy year it has been! This last month has been pretty much all about moving to our new house. Cate and I have both done AWESOME since we moved 2 weeks ago. Cate loves her new room and all of the space, and I'm pretty much happy anywhere as long as there's food!
What's New:
-I am really good at cruising and walking pushing push toys or holding 2 hands.
-I can sit on and push a ride on toy.
-I can say 7 or 8 words, including my new favorites "uh-oh" and "dog" (which sounds like "gog").
-I can wave and say "bye bye."
-I can crawl up the stairs but not down. I like to crawl to the top and then immediately turn around and sit down with my bottom hanging halfway off the top step so I almost fall before Mommy grabs me at the last second. It's a really fun game!
Posing with sis
Likes:
-Balls
-Water. I've been taking swimming lessons this month with my cousin, and we both LOVE it!
-Food. Some of my favorites are bananas, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and pasta, but I'll eat just about anything!
