The Daily Struggle and Success with School

I mean....look at these faces!  

Katie-kins, you go through so many faces during your school day.  We love them all, but girl, you've got some faces and opinions!

Happy school day Katie, you really are doing well-(even if we did school today for twice as long as we should've today- we accomplished, we succeeded!...) :D

Oh Goodness, Owen is Reading Bob Books!

Look at you Mister Twister, reading Bob Books!  

Super proud of you sounding out your letters and making words like, Bob, Mag, Sat, Cat, And, Jig, Nap, Bag, Hot, Dog

And you reading as a Cowboy- makes my. heart. melt. 

Way to go O!

Owen

Owen,

You are so stinkn' cute!  Your words come tumbling out and you put together the best phrases.  

Currently you love to call your head, your "noggin".  

"My noggin hurts, Mommy." "Katie hit me in the noggin!" "Did the stick scratch my noggin?"

Today while you and Katie were playing you said, "Just kiss them on the forenoggin!" It took me a second, but Daddy helped me understand you were referring to kissing them on the forehead!  

Dance Party Friday Night

Everything is AWESOME, Shake It Off, ABC, Happy...Celebrate!  Come on people, dance!

7:36 this morning

Owen, sweet boy, you scared us this morning.  Daddy was taking a splinter out of your finger, which you got from a bridge on a walk and then....you had a vega response! 

(Probably your blood sugar plummeted.) 

You slumped onto the cabinet door and then the bathroom floor and for about 10 seconds kept saying, "I don't know, I don't know." Your eyes were open, but you couldn't focus or understand us.  Daddy, picked you up and you felt like dead weight. We kept talking to you and took you outside for colder air and slowly you came around. You were exhausted and barely able to stay awake, but could tell us your name, count to 21 and sing Jesus Loves Me.  We were SO thankful!  

We called Ms. Tamera and she came over to check on you, since she is a nurse and then we, just to be sure, went to Stepping Stones Ped. to have them check on you.  You checked out, "back to normal"! Thankful!  We played eye spy, ate a granola bar and back home we went.  

We are Very Very Thankful to Jesus that Daddy was home, that you are SAFE AND WELL, that we have a Dr. and neighbors to visit and that you are now back to playing with toys, singing some made up song. 

We love you Owen! 

Note to self....do not take a splinter out of a finger before breakfast-without food in the tummy...just incase. :)

Kids Christmas P*A*R*T*Y 2014

Kids, you did a great job planning our Kids Christmas Party 2014!  Katie and Owen you thought of every detail and I believe the fun factor was a 10!

Some of your details include:

Spiced Cookies

Hot Chocolate

Crafts

Laughing

Snowflakes

Holiday Plates and Napkins

Friends-Burtons, Muses, Pollingers

FUN!

A Photo Shoot, By Katherine Grace and Owen Bradley

Yes, she did.  Yes, he did.  

"A Fall Photo Shoot" said Katie and Owen

*(sorry k & o, this post got lost and didn't get posted, but here it is now :)*

1st Nutcracker

Katie's big Christmas gift...Nutcracker Tickets with her Daddy.

"Marvelous!" The one word answer to the question, "well, how did you like it?" Katie and I enjoyed our first Nutcracker together today and it was wonderful. She's not stopped dancing since...which is fine with me because I love watching her twirl and smile! 

Love, Daddy

Excited for more of this...

Katie, Pippers, we are THRILLED that you are doing so well in reading.  It seems to have just clicked within the past few weeks.  You have a pile of books that you are desiring to read and we couldn't be more excited. One afternoon it was really quiet in our house and I couldn't figure out what was different then other days.  It finally dawned on me...you were lost in a book!  You spent 2 hours reading in the car and then snuggled under a cozy blanket on the couch.  

Pips, keep reading, keep trying to figure out large difficult words and lets find some fun books that you can dive into and get wrapped up in a wonderful story!

We love you and are so proud of this milestone in your life!

L

Holiday Photos

Thank you Casey Chapel for doing our short, sweet photo shoot!  

You are awesome and we love these captured cherished memories. :)

 katie-7.5 years old

owen-5

The holidays 2014