Jocelyn is busy these days with school, piano and dance class. She was awarded Student of the Month by her teacher in September which was very exciting. Emma and I were able to surprise her for the assembly at school to see her given the award. Jocelyn, Lillian and Emma are taking dance class at a studio not too far away, in part due to the generosity of their aunt who teaches at the same studio. They have really enjoyed it. For her birthday, Jocelyn was able to get her ears pierced and she also was able to take a cake decorating class with Lillian at Jo-Ann's. She jumped back in to piano with a teacher nearby and it works out great to do piano lessons in the morning before school.
Jocelyn,
Lillian and I have been participating in the local library
"Mother-Daughter" book club wherein we read one novel every month and
go participate in the discussion, craft and goodie at the library. It has been
so much fun. We had to miss the most recent discussion because Activity Girls
was the same night, but overall we have loved being able to trade the books
around and got to the activity together.
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Jocelyn
with piano teacher at recital
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| Jocelyn and Lillian at Dance Class |
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| Jocelyn gets Student of the Month |
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| Students of the month |
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| Getting her ears pierced |
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| At the cake Decorating class |
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| With the completed decorated cakes |
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| Dance Performance |
Lillian was baptized back in August and it was a perfect day! Great weather, tons of family (about 60 people over for a brunch at our house following the event), and a wonderful baptism and confirmation by Jared. Since she turned 8, Lillian can now attend Activity Day Girls at church and loves it. Here she is making some bookmarks one night with all the girls. Lillian is also taking dance class and piano lessons with Jocelyn and even wanted to sign up for a volleyball league. It has been so fun to see how far her team has progressed since the first game. They even came around on the last game this weekend and beat the team that had schooled them previously in the season. Lillian also had her good friend Nora from Morgan Hill fly in to visit family but we got to keep her for almost a day so they could catch up. It was so fun to see them together again!
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| Little family on Lillian's baptism day |
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| Lillian baptism cupcakes |
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| Lillian with Great Grandma Guiliana |
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| Lillian with Grandma and Grandpa |
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| Lillian with Nana and Kelsey |
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| Lillian with Uncle Nate and Cosette |
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| Lillian wearing the baptism dress her aunts wore |
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| Baptism brunch |
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| At her volleyball game |
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| Serving at the volleyball game |
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| At activity day girls |
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| Lillian and Lenora |
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| Lillian with Piano teacher at Recital |
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Jonas started his "Let's Play Music" class and I
think I might love it more than he does-it is packed with musical theory and
auditory skills and is a playful, non pressure intro to music! Here is is with
his teacher. The moms go every other class and it seems like a good
balance so I know how to help him with homework, but he also gets his
independence. Jonas played a round of outdoor soccer and a quick round of
indoor soccer and loved both. He was about a head taller than the other pre-k
kids on his indoor team so he scored quite a bit and did pretty good with his
ball handling. For his Birthday, in lieu of bringing treats, he was allowed to
gift a book to his class, so here he is on the hot seat opening the book for
his class. He has made good friends with Han & Madi, a set of twins
in his class who also happen to be the piano teacher's kids so that has been a
fun connection. Jonas has been waiting and waiting to lose his first
tooth and he FINALLY had a loose tooth and lost it on the first day. He
couldn't have been more thrilled. Jonas has been busy making books
lately. He made one for everyone in the family and a couple friends. He is not
fully reading yet, but getting closer and closer all the time.
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| Jonas with his music teacher one day at class |
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| Jonas Outdoor Soccer League |
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| Lost tooth with tooth fairy money |
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| A sampling of the books Jonas has been making for us |
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Jonas
found a huge moth at school and wanted to take a picture with it
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| Opening the birthday book for his class |
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| A playdate with Han and Madi |
Emma is as much of a spitfire as ever now that she is 4. We
found this Anna dress (Frozen) on a Halloween clearance sale and since it was
her birthday she was pretty sure she needed to get it and wore it for 5 days
straight! She has rotated around now with a hand-me-down dance costume
and the rapunzel dress up, but for a while it was Anna or bust! I always
tell my kids I am happy to get them a tissue, rather than them wiping boogers
on my walls or carpet so Emma lately will say "Mom! I need a tissue"
while she is holding a booger on her finger (eww) so I will kindly get her a
tissue. About a month ago she told me this while I was in the middle of
picking the kids up from school so I told her to hang on for just a minute and
I would get her a tissue. She told me a minute later "Don't worry,
mom. I put it back in my nose!" She was done holding that thing and
was not going to wait a minute!
She participated in a dance performance and I had no idea how it would go
down since she is really silly about taking dance. She begged me to take it but
gets shy when I drop her off and I cannot stay and watch or she just comes out
to me in the hall so Jonas and I usually leave the girls at dance and go run an
errand or practice his music in the car. Well, she was front row and did
awesome on her performance! When we had our Halloween decorations out,
somehow we adopted this plastic rat for a little while from Kelsey.
Jocelyn tried to trick me with it putting it by the back door, which did not
really work, then Jonas put it under Emma's pillow. When she got tricked
she was mad, telling Jonas "You are NOT the best brother!" But
the next night she came up to me while I was getting kids ready for bed and
told me "Mom, there is nothing in your bed, and it is NOT a rat!" She
thought she was being so tricky hiding it in my bed and "not" telling
me it was there! Ha! We all got a good laugh out of it.
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| Emma after her dance performance |
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| With some letters she received from her friend Jane |
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| With Mom and sisters at Mother-Daughter Book Club |
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| Wearing her Anna dress |
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| Emma Preschool Thanksgiving Celebration |
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| Emma LOVES to swing and is getting better at Pumping |
