I know I promised more pics of the kids, but I have to put this video on here before I forget. Leah got a great workbook (the series of workbooks is called Explode the Code, she is on Level 1) from a friend at church whose son is in Kindergarten and works in this book too. Leah is doing so well and learning how to sound out words and recognize them.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Leah's birthday weekend
I started this post a few days ago but was having some trouble posting pictures (reason: THE slowest Internet connection), but now I'm back trying to get this posted before it's officially been a week past Leah's birthday. I have a ton of pictures but it's just taking too long with each one.
Leah is lucky because her birthday will sometimes fall on the Labor Day weekend so we get to have an extra long weekend. This year we spent it with my parents, a couple of my siblings and some good friends we met during our year in Chicago. We arrived there late Friday night, and the kids were so excited to make it to Nana's and Papa's (it took us a little longer because of traffic).
After swimming we ate a yummy lunch of hamburgers, hot dogs, watermelon, and chips. Cameron took his afternoon nap while I worked on Leah's cake. The entire week before her birthday we talked about making a Barbie cake, and I thought I had looked at enough tutorials and blogs about making it. But when it came to baking it and frosting, it just didn't turn out the way I hoped. But the cake did taste good. It just didn't look very good.
Sunday was her actual birthday, so she got to be sung to at church and took home a birthday pencil and a Blow-Pop sucker. We decided last minute to travel over to Drew's house for dinner that night because we would be leaving on Monday to get back to Austin. Drew's wife Lindsey provided a feast for us, and we all ate until our waistlines were bulging. Leah kept referring to herself as the birthday girl all weekend and was writing her name with balloons next to it (and has still be doing it at home too).
She was so excited by all the attention and the new craft stuff and wardrobe she got for her birthday. She is definitely growing up too fast and is such a little helper around the house. Yesterday she was trying to change Cameron's diaper all by herself and get his dressed for the day. She is going to be a great mother one day.
Leah is lucky because her birthday will sometimes fall on the Labor Day weekend so we get to have an extra long weekend. This year we spent it with my parents, a couple of my siblings and some good friends we met during our year in Chicago. We arrived there late Friday night, and the kids were so excited to make it to Nana's and Papa's (it took us a little longer because of traffic).
The next morning my brother Drew and his family drove over to go swimming. The kids love using these floaties that my mom found for them. The floaties give them so much freedom and allows us not to worry about them. I just wish we would have found them sooner.
The birthday girl on her throne of balloons
The birthday girl on her throne of balloons
After swimming we ate a yummy lunch of hamburgers, hot dogs, watermelon, and chips. Cameron took his afternoon nap while I worked on Leah's cake. The entire week before her birthday we talked about making a Barbie cake, and I thought I had looked at enough tutorials and blogs about making it. But when it came to baking it and frosting, it just didn't turn out the way I hoped. But the cake did taste good. It just didn't look very good.
Sunday was her actual birthday, so she got to be sung to at church and took home a birthday pencil and a Blow-Pop sucker. We decided last minute to travel over to Drew's house for dinner that night because we would be leaving on Monday to get back to Austin. Drew's wife Lindsey provided a feast for us, and we all ate until our waistlines were bulging. Leah kept referring to herself as the birthday girl all weekend and was writing her name with balloons next to it (and has still be doing it at home too).
She was so excited by all the attention and the new craft stuff and wardrobe she got for her birthday. She is definitely growing up too fast and is such a little helper around the house. Yesterday she was trying to change Cameron's diaper all by herself and get his dressed for the day. She is going to be a great mother one day.
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