Daddy being silly.
"Happy Birthday to you..."
"Oh my goodenss the outfit I wanted!" She is turning into a GIRL!!!
Just a couple of pictures from Jessie's birthday. The classic "kid's table".
The birthday girl not looking thrilled at all!
He is still handsome even when he is covered with his dinner!
In a library book that has since been returned there was instructions on how to make your own geode. It turned out pretty neat. Some of the crystals are huge. It is an egg shell with salt water (boiled water with salt until it reaches the saturation point). After the water begins to evaporate you are left with large crystals.
We made our Valentine's Day countdown chain complements of Catholic Icing. It is really cute with a bible verse related to love on each link.
"Love is patient, love is kind, happy feast of St. Valentine"
Well we had an exciting Chinese New Year. I printed off some material from www.enchantedlearning.com so we could learn what Chinese New Year was all about and things just snowballed from there. 
This is the year of the dragon thus the different dragon crafts. The ones Emmy and Margie are holding can be found here. Josie's mask (which looks really cool) is from DLTK and can be found here. 
After our parade. Boy you should look up a video of a dragon dance or parade. They are pretty spectacular. Our parade was probably just as exciting but not as flambuoyant! Georgia's dragon which you can see a little better in this picture was from activity village. It took some planning but the result is really neat. 
Today we made a real nice wise men craft thanks to Crayola. This one is Josie's. 
Georgia's. We were supposed to sprinkle salt over the watercolors and it was supposed to look like a star lit sky but ours didn't work out so well.
Emeline's
A little healthy competition will keep you awake!
But.. Emmy is getting tired.
Margie Sue played away with her babies for a good hour and a half without bothering anyone or getting distracted. I liked that!!!
When they started to think they may not make it I brought out the bubbly. That brightened their eyes!
"2012"
A farewell toast to 2011 and here's to the new year.
Margie really liked her bubbly.
Emmy could have drank it right from the bottle. I'm sure if I turned my back for long enough she would have given it a try too.
Emeline and Scamper. Scamper looks sleepy.
15 minutes...We're going to make it!! At this point I'm delirious and can't believe that all 4 kids are still awake!
They were getting super tired though and needed to have a pick-up basketball game to make it the last 15 minutes.
Margie going in for the jam.
A little more bubbly to hold em over.
Almost there!
Whoooo Hoooo FINALLY!!!
We wish you a blessed New Year!
We made a Jesse tree this year. The kids looked forward to the story and ornament each day. A lot of work but it was fun.
I'm not sure why Margie looked like a pickle puss but I made the little ones flannel gowns for Christmas Eve. Now they can really be Carrie and Grace from Little House on the Prairie!
Margie asked for "Scooby Dooby". No matter who asked her what she wanted she replied "Scooby Dooby" so Santa found her a Scooby Doo matching game.
Emmy opened her gift from St. Nick and she was looking at the back of the box all confused. After a few seconds I told her to flip the box over and well this is the reaction....
...warms my heart! Now her and Margie have a band.
A visit with "The Greats". We HAVE to do that more often! xoxo
Well I woke up and made cinnamon buns and prepared to make a St. Lucy crown yesterday in honor of St. Lucy's feast day. We didn't have a white dress handy so after I took the kids Christmas photos I snapped one of Emmy, our St. Lucy for the day. The cinnamon buns ended up being a nice incentive to get the kids to sit still. I'm still at a loss in explaining how I could have taken over 100 photos and still not have been 100% happy with even 1 of them!!!! xoxo
