Dance Parties

Macy had her dance party last week and they got to wear tutus to class.  They also did a candy cane craft, ate some yummy snacks, and performed a cute little dance. She was so excited that Brooke and I were able to come into her class and watch.

Kayla's class watched a movie while feasting on quite the spread of food. Someone even brought hot spinach and artichoke dip.  For a class of 5 year olds? I will say that I saw several parents enjoying some. After eating her class performed a ballet and a tap dance for the parents

Sweet Friends

Our girls LOVE the Andersons. They will do anything for some playtime with them.  It's amazing how quickly they will clean up their room and playroom when they know they get to see their buddies. Last week the kids came over to play for a few hours while their parents got some Christmas shopping done. I don't think we heard one argument the entire night.

Mark and Deidre say that Jack is a stinker, but we think he is the sweetest little boy. 

The girls went non-stop all evening.  They had a great time dressing up, but they didn't want me coming in the playroom and seeing them.  I stuck the camera in the door and managed to snap a few pictures.

We ended the evening with a snack and Christmas movie.

Christmas Singing

Kayla had two singing performances this month.  The first one was at our church.  She was so excited to sing on stage. The kindergartners sang two songs and were so precious.

The second performance was at her school.  The kids sang a lot of songs that they had learned throughout the year as well as a couple of Christmas songs.

Decorating for Christmas

I thought that the girls would really enjoy decorating the tree this year, and they did for a little while.  Then there were other, more entertaining things to do.

Brooke loved to look at the lights, but it took her days before she would willingly touch the branches. So far she hasn't tried to pull on the tree or ornaments.  I am sure it helps that the tree is not in the living room this year. 

The girls really enjoyed decorating the little tree in their room. 

And the first gift of the season are Christmas pajamas and a new ornament. Brooke really enjoyed pulling on the wrapping paper.

This years ornaments were ballet slippers.  

Thanksgiving

It is less than 2 weeks until Christmas and I am just getting around to posting about Thanksgiving.  I really didn't take too many pictures, but I want to document a couple of things. 

Once Kayla realized that she was strong enough to pick Brooke up, and once we realized that she wasn't going to hurt her, Kayla has LOVED picking Brooke up and moving her around the room.  Brooke usually thinks it is pretty fun too.

We had a lot of family in town and so we had Thanksgiving at our house.  There was SO MUCH FOOD. Oh my. The cousins all loved playing together too. 

The girls and I made these cute turkeys.  Ok, who am I kidding. Macy took very little interest in helping, Kayla helped, but it was mama that did most of the work.  I did, however, discover the deliciousness of cocoa rice krispie treats with peanut butter spread on it.  Really, you should try it.

After lunch some of the kids dressed up and put on a show for us.  

And of course I can't forget to mention that it was Brooke's first Thanksgiving.  I know we are so thankful that God blessed our family with another precious little girl.

I think the only thing she ended up eating was macaroni and cheese. 

Good Point!

Marc: "Kayla, what is your favorite candy?"

Kayla: "That one!" (pointing to a picture of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups)

Marc: "Why is that one your favorite?"

Kayla: "It has peaunt butter in it and peanut butter is healthy.  I like healthy candy."

Overwhelming Cuteness

This is Brooke's newest face.  She scrunches up her nose, squints her eyes, smiles, and then laughs at herself.

Oops! Caught!

The girls are in a bad habit of playing as soon as we put them to bed.  Sometimes we will let them play, but after 9:00 they have to go to sleep.  On school nights there is supposed to be no playing.  Well Kayla seems to think that they can play whenever they want as long as there is an 8 on the clock. Since Macy is sick and Kayla woke up early this morning we really wanted them to go to sleep so Marc said he would stay in their room until they fell asleep.  Sometimes he falls asleep lies on the floor until they do. Tonight after the usual routine of books, prayers, and rocking they were pretending to be asleep so he put them in bed and then sat back down in the rocking chair (which they didn't realize). After a few minutes this conversation happened:

Kayla: flips over and sees clock. She pops up and says "hey, look Macy, there is a 7 on the clock. It's not bedtime, it's playtime."
Macy: sits up, sees Marc sitting there, and says, "no, look Kayla, it's bedtime."
Kayla: "No, it's really playtime."
Macy: "No, LOOK Kayla, it's bedtime!"
Kayla: "Mommy and Daddy were so silly, they put us to bed with a 7 on the clock. We have time to play."
Marc: clears throat
Kayla: quickly turns to look at Marc and says, "oh, just teasing" and immediately lies down

Fun at the Park

The weather was beautiful last weekend so we headed out to the park for a little while.

Brooke hated the feel of the grass on her feet and refused to put them down.  She did the same thing over the summer when the grass was actually green and not so scratchy.

We always forget to bring our own boxes, but they usually manage to find one laying around. They love sliding down this hills on the cardboard.

We relaxed on the swing.  Kayla enjoyed pushing us too.

I know the cold weather is coming soon, so when we have warmer days we try to take advantage of them.

10 Months Old

My sweet little Brooke is 10 months old. We headed to the park to take some pictures and she was all smiles.

Of course we got a few silly face picture in there.  She's good at those too.

We love our precious Brooke and can't believe that she is already 10 months old.