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| "Mommy, hol me!" were Anna's first words. She wasn't so sure about her boots and this snow. |
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| Clara and Owen were up bright and early ready to get out into the snow. We were outside by 8:15am that day! |
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| "Sissy's gloves" |
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| Last week the kids were desperate for snow so we opened our package of instant snow. We thought it looked like fun, but it turned out to be a weird texture and was so messy! We are happier with the snow God made.. the real stuff. |
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| Anna enjoying cousin Peter's drum playing |
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| A Lego Spaceship! |
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| Playing Connect Four Launchers... a fun new game |
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| Cousin matching outfits
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| My new dinosaur pillow pet keychain and penguin from Clara |
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| A new book from Daddy. I love my "Muddy Paws" book! |
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| Our new Shelton View shirts |
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| All our Christmas morning treasures |
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| Maggie the gymnast and Clara the dancer sporting their new hoodies from Grammy. |
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| We never expected to find an early present in our Christmas tree box, but surprise we pulled out a dead mouse! Eww!! |
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| Gotta love the traditional gingerbread house and cookies |
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| See my pretty new shoes! They are my first real pair. |
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| Peter, Alex, Owen and Clara enjoyed a fun afternoon in Grandma's kitchen baking up all sorts of yummy Christmas cookies |
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| Clara and the cute reindeer cookies |
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| Owen enjoyed pulling licorice for the string of lights cookies |
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| Anna loves yogurt drinkables. She calls them "ooo, ooo, ahh's" becuase of the monkey on the front |
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| She discovered the Halloween candy stash which she loved to sort through. Every once in awhile she would get one open and start munching. Clara and Owen would march right in and snatch the candy up as fast as possible trying to protect their valubale treasure. |
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| Anna's favorite treat.. M&M's. Like mother, like daughter! I would've never given Clara and Owen M&M's at her age, but hey she's the third child. She often says, "Cookie, Canny, Mmm's"! |
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| Clara started taking piano lessons this month with a program called Simply Music. She can already play 2 wonderful songs using both of her hands. It's pretty amazing! She is teaching Mommy how to play too. |
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| Owen ready for AWANA Sparkies at church |
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| Owen as the Costco receipt checker. A nice man always draws pictures on the back of our receipts for the kids as we leave Costco. Here's Owen's bunny drawing. |
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| The kids just couldn't wait to decorate our gingerbread house, so a few days before Thanksgiving they had a ball eating gumdrops and coconut shavings as they put the house together., |
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| Clara had to get 2 bottom baby teeth pulled. She did great and even got 2 little tooth necklaces to hold her prized teeth. |
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| The other day Owen came bounding in with this getup. He said, "Look at my chest!" I couldn't help but burst out laughting!! He was a "strong man" |
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| Clara insisted that she get in on the muscle fun too! |
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Anna loves to play in the dishwasher water and move the racks in and out. I guess she's taking the place of Tully who loved to lick up the dirty dishwater. Thankfully, she doesn't try to lick it up.. just splash in it. Anna's newest tricks: naming everyone in the family.. Mommy, Daddy, Oh No (Owen) and Sissy. She's been testing out her teeth lately and discovering she can use them to bite. Some of us have found ourselves unexpectedly bitten. Now she's quick to say"No bi!" She surprising us with new words almost every day. The other day she saw the box of baby wipes and said, "wet wi".  She is gradually starting to walk more on her own and will voluntarily stand up and take a few steps here or there. A couple weeks ago Grandma Tea had some chocolate and she was coaxing Anna to walk over to her and get it. Anna was all too eager and gladly took a few steps to enjoy that treat. We decided she needed a sign that said, "Will walk for chocolate!" |
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| Anna loves to pray. When we sit down to eat she's the first to say, "Pray!" |
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| We went to see the play "Rapunzel" at Molbaks and found some festive pumpkins |
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| Our cousins Peter and Alex |
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| Owen's special dinosaur fossil cake. We found this fun idea where you used sugar cookies and cut them in the shape of dinosaur bones. Clara and Owen had fun crushing chocloate graham crackers to make dirt. |
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| I'm finally 6!! |
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| Our little ladybug, fairy and bat. Originally Owen planned to be a paleontologist, but then he got into a "bat" phase. So he came up with his Owen plan (as is his style) and created his very own bat costume. |
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| Now we've added "batty" to our ever growing collection of stuffed animals. Can't say I know too many kids with a stuffed bat. Owen at School |
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| Owen celebrated his spcecial VIP day at school . (This was when he actually dressed up as a paleontologist.) He loves his teahcer "The Cat in the Hat" (Mrs. Willett). This month he earned the Shelton View Shark Elementary "Responsiblity" award for his class. He got a special certificate which is now proudly displayed in our kitchen. |
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| Frosting Auntie Lori's famous brownies |
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| Smores by the fire |
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| Enjoying the beach and making tiny footprints in the sand |
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| Owen loved digging and flinging sand everywhere |
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| The kids loved catching little fish with Uncle Gordy, aka Uncle Geezer as he called himself |
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| Owen wore these binoculars all day every day we were there. He was our whale spotter. He looked anxiously all weekend and finally we spotted a pod swimming by the shore. |
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| More whale watching |
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