Santa on the train

More Polar Express pics

Polar Express

Our village offered a Polar Express experience for the first time this year. The kids loved riding on the train, most especially Madeleine. Thank you to Auntie NeNe for coming along!

Tapper

Parents were invited into tap class on Friday for a little demonstration of what the girls have learned so far this year. I'm not sure if it is Carolyn's calling, but she loves being there.

Santa visits preschool

Santa surprised Desi's class with a quick visit this past Friday. It was evident that we don't talk about Santa very much when Desi pointed to him and said "who is that?". He then wouldn't go anywhere near him even Santa was passing out little gifts. This is the only photo I could get of them "together".

Dancing Desi

Jingle Bells

We Wish You A Merry Christmas

James takes a bow

Sweet brothers holding hands

and actually listening to mommy:)

Gingerbread artists

At Carolyn's school for Family Craft Night.

Listen to the Jingles

Song 2

The Rhythm of the Season

Carolyn's Christmas concert song 1

Climbing to the top

I had to shorten the video post, so here is the second half of her climb to the top of the stairs complete with cheerleaders.

Tub time

She is finally starting to love the water!

The landing

She made it up 4 steps completely unassisted to the landing this morning. Time to break out the baby gates!

Halloween is coming

10/31 James' Halloween Sing

Disguise the turkey

Carolyn's Family Thanksgiving project was to disguise a turkey to help it make it through Thanksgiving without anyone finding it. The disguise was supposed to be unique or special to our family, so what could be more special to Carolyn than her upcoming role as flower girl. Auntie had come to visit so they got to work on it together. Complete with 3D basket: Turkey Carolyn the flower girl.

A boy and his dog

Desi and Fluffy:)

10 months

Time keeps flying by...I can't believe Madeleine is 10 months old already! She is a super smiley girl who prefers green vegetables, eats her siblings school papers, crawls everywhere, tries to climb on everything and hates getting her nails cut. We love her!

10 month crawling

I just filmed this today, but she's been up on hands and knees and able to go from sitting to crawling and back for about three weeks.

and climb stairs...

Starting to cruise

11/6

Baptism pics

Thank you to everyone who shared in this special day with us, both in person and online!

Laura's wedding

Some pictures from my cousin Laura's wedding September 13.

Thriller James-style

Ready for Halloween

Fangs

Making an appearance just in time for Halloween.

Picking tomatos

James and Desi helped Grandma and Papa pick the last of their tomatoes and then rip out the plants last week.

Hooray!