January 2010

Cousin Jaime's 3rd birthday! Here they are making a homemade pinata! Ready for the special birthday outing as princesses.

We saw "Princess and the Frog" in theater!

File Folder Games

I recently got a Kumon's Easy Crafts. It's such a good book, and doesn't require you buying anything else to make the crafts like A Beka does, and the creations are much cooler.

Greek pizza restaurant

First snowman ever!



To grandmother's house we go.

Cross Iron Mills mall

We have a library nearby, so we go once a week and bring back books that are easy to read. Alice has taken off with reading this month! She used to just see it as a school thing to do, but now she is seeing that it is fun and interesting and the progress is amazing!

Alice started a once a week dance class with Jaime. They really enjoy themselves! They have a bubbly black teacher with extensions. That night at dinner Alice said "The teacher had instincts in her hair, and they kept falling out!"

Alice told me she has a baby angel helper, and her name is Arjelita.

One night Alice woke me up by crying in her sleep repeating over and over again, "Jaime, you look so ooogly with that brown stuff all over you!" I had to laugh.

December 2009

This was my first time out for Indian Food! Yum! This was my first snow angel.

I got my ears pierced. They had two guns and made both holes at the same time. It hurt, but not too much.

My pretty coat.

Decorating the tree

Some fun dress up!

We caroled for our neighbors and gave them homemade cards and cookies!

Here's the gingerbread house I made with Dad.

Christmas morning finally came!

Some present pictures.

Alice said “Mom, there’s a black squirrel outside hibernating a nut!” It was eating a nut in a tree in the snow.
We were playing doggies, and her doggie dramatically says to mine, “ I don’t want you around here anymore, so, be gone!”
Her little cousin got a pretty ring, and Alice wanted to wear it, so she said, "Jaime, you look SO pretty WiThOUT the ring!"

4rth Birthday

I'm growing up! 4 years old!

We had a very small party a few days early because we only had a couple of days to pack and move after that. Awesome A. Priya made all the food!

Then, the day after we arrived in Canada, her birthday, the 20th, her grandma made her another cake and she got more presents! What a blessed, loved little girl.

November 2009

We arrived in Calgary (Canada) this month. It was a long travel, but we made it just fine.
This was the only pic I took. We were at one of the airports along the way. Grandpa and Grandma got the girls some wings and funny hair for dress up.

Alice's first snowfall

Alice has always been so into her art project walls.

Caro stayed over for a couple days for some great fun! Here they are sleeping in a home made tent.

Julian and Janine's birthday party!

Pinata spoils

Two little cousin cuties!

After a shower one night, Alice looked at herself in the mirror with her PJs on and said, “Where are the sparkles? How come I don’t have sparkles?” I said “What do you mean? Why would you have sparkles?” She said, “In the videos, after they get clean, they always sparkle!”

October 2009

Daddy made a little lean to in the yard for the girls. I snuck to take this picture. It's a little ladybug family!

Alice loves Baby Russell!

After eating tamales, the girls played at the little park out back for a couple of hours.

We found this great place for the little girls to play. It has a bunch of play stuff, jungle gym stuff, and a dress up corner.

Costume party for Halloween

Bobbing for apples was a firstPumpkin carving with Dad.He loved that beard!

One night Alice says to me: "Mom, I don't know the name of my guardian angel." I said, "Well, close your eyes, and ask Jesus to tell you." So she scrunched up her little face, closed her eyes, and got real quiet for about a minute. Then she opens her eyes and says, "Magnificent, that's the name of my guardian angel. She's a girl. And I also have another angel named Relax. He helps me to relax."

I thought that was so precious!

When saying the names of the twelve disciples, she always laughs when we say Thaddaeus, because she's convinced his name is Fattiest (you know how kids say f for th).
Alice is really artsy. She can never even just color a simple little picture. She has to get all intricate and add all her own imaginary stuff to it.

September 2009

Well, Alice started her first grade this month. We got A Beka books. We also got Carson Dellosa and File Folder GAMES for first grade.

One of our dogs had 8 puppies! We loved them till we had to give them away.

I've been helping mom make pizza sometimes.

Here is new baby Russel. I'm a good helper and I love to hold him!

Here is one of the many many art projects we've done with A. Priya. She is awesome!

Random ballet class shot.

First time out to an ice cream store! I have a classy mess on my face.

Carolina's birthday party! She's still my best friend. I love Caro!

We played Freeze Dance and when we froze we had to freeze like a certain animal. What am I?

Swinging with my daddy.

Dress up time! One of our crazy faces.

Squaws no dance. Squaws gettum firewood.

One day cousin Jaime got a new little rabbit toy. Alice already had one, but wanted to play with both. So A. Priya said "Alice, you & Jaime each get to be happy playing with one." Alice said "How about I get to be happy playing with both, and Jaime gets to be happy to share!"

Baby Russel needed a diaper change, so I said "Let's go upstairs to change his diaper." Alice said "Someone has a stinky bum, and I'm not going to mention any names!"

I was singing "I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand...." Alice interrupts with, "Why can't we hold God's left hand?"

One morning Alice comes up to me and says, "Mom, why is Uncle Art's name in the Bible?" I said, "Oh? Where does it say his name?" She starts singing, "Our Father which ART in heaven.."

She still has the hardest time saying the word 'cushion'. What comes out is always 'quishton'.

July 2009

August 2009

Party time!

In addition to Pineapple (our beta fish), we now have a turtle to care for. Mommy is feeling overwhelmed, ha! A froggie morning. Good thing boys can touch frogs.

Upcoming painters

Good ol' Carls Jr.

Plaza Sesamo: Aqua World

A little friendly persuasion

Making pizza!

The kids found an empty nest, so they painted some eggs, and did a study on eggs and baby birds.

I'm on another push to teach Alice Spanish. Now that she goes to dance class twice a week, she is a bit more interested. I'm also going through some Spanish flashcards with her. One day I ask if she can say 'calcetines' (socks). She says, "Of course I can say that! I'm just not interested in saying it right now."

She is very artsy and loves to do intricate coloring and dot to dots and drawing and projects.

She is also a very good big sister type and helps with the younger ones, has a lot of patience with them. She is very sweet and likes to help in any way she can.