Can you tell what time of year it is? It's time to print my blog book!!! Here the last few tid-bits from 2015...
Rebecca "hunting" with Daddy. (Owen and Maggie will get their turns in January.)
Maggie and her sweet cousin Blair who she adores. She had a sleepover with her over Christmas break.
Uncle Luke working on post-bath curls.
Bounce-house fun.
Asleep sitting straight up.
All 3 kiddos got some fun (and surprisingly easy to shoot) light-up bow/arrow kits. We went to the park the day after Christmas to shoot but the girls ended up mostly on the playscape and swing by Owen and Kyle did target practice.
Hamming it up for me...
Before school starts back I like to clean out their art/homework bins and file stuff...Here are some keepers from the first half of the year.
Maggie's keepsake file is always the thinnest - she just doesn't make that much and it all still looks like this...
Or this. Actually - funny story - Rebecca and Owen and I went to pick Maggie up from school (bigs were out early that day for some reason) and we were in her classroom and Ms. Melissa pointed us to a new display of a bunch of snowmen the kids made. Rebecca said - I bet I can pick out Maggie's. Walked right up to this one and sure enough it was hers. All of the others...well, they looked like snowmen. ;)
Rebecca's "treasures" from the past few months - at least the ones that will fit in a file.
Portraits of Maggie + Rebecca + Owen
"Her words" - what she writes down when she watches World World.
This piece has hung on most of the walls in our house at some point. Its a minion, with Maggie the Minion.
A portrait she made for me.
A poem by R (transcribed by me and then Kyle) and an invitation to Jingle Doggie's birthday (in a halloween costume).
One of her anatomy drawings - probably as she and Kyle talked about organ systems which she is very very into these days.
Manger Scene.
A sweet note for Owen by his friend Dane - part of the 2nd grade Christmas gift tradition at school to give "the gift of words."
Owen's nativity scene - on the back of the folder he held with his script for a small pageant.
"We" aka I - was in charge of making the wreaths for both the big kids' classroom doors at Christmas. We - aka I - made tiny reindeer heads with all the kids' pictures. Somehow Rebecca's didn't make it home with me.
He doesn't draw much these days, but when he does its related to Star Wars (or he and R's new obsession - Minecraft on an old iphone we have...crack.)
A pro-con list of whether to try lacrosse this spring. He went back and forth and back and forth and agonized. Came down to lacrosse (which he's a little nervous about but he knows the boys on the team) or baseball (which he is very interested in but wouldn't know anyone) and he chose lacrosse. We'll let you know in a few months how that goes!
This is me wearing a tacky Christmas sweater...and it's about how I feel right now because I am officially done with 2015!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bring it on 2016!
