Practicing Letters - B, M

Today for the first time Tenley did Q-tip painting. It seemed to be a little tricky for her but she did enjoy it! She practiced on the two letters that her preschool has covered so far, B and M.

Happenings on Sept 30, 2013

Tenny always asks where Daddy is even just after he leaves for work in the morning. This is her saying she misses daddy "THIS MUCH!"

Right after that adorable picture of her missing Daddy, she decided to add some "sugar" to her waffle..Only it wasn't sugar, it was SALT! So I told her she needed to take a bite and see how it tasted! Needless to say she didn't eat much more of her salty waffle.

This is my handsome *almost* 4 year old right after his haircut. What a handsome guy he is! I just love him to pieces!

Old Friends, Catching Up!

We've been trying to plan a get together with our friends The Gordy's for months and our schedules have just clashed. They are wonderful people who we met through a mutual friend before we even had kids! Through this time we've stayed in touch even with our busy lives. They have 2 adorable and totally sweet kids! Well recently we reconnected at Awana and that spurred us on to a dinner get together. They came to our house and we had a blast. The kids played so well together and the night was so enjoyable and relaxing! I just LOVED seeing Tenley and Savannah play together. It showed me how much Tenley will love having a sister! Here are a few photos from the end of the evening when Tenley asked Savannah to braid her hair! Soo sweet. And look at handsome Isaac sneaking in the picture too. We will definitely plan another get together soon and not let months go by before doing it! Thanks Juli and Chris for being such sweet, caring, thoughtful friends!

Craft of the week!

I've been giving Tenley more arts and crafts projects lately for fun and learning. She lights up when I ask her if she wants to make a craft! I like to have special things for her to do especially when Jackson has many "special" things he has to do!

Here she is showing off her letter of the week coloring sheet, for letter B! I'm using the Songs for Saplings cd.

Notice her doll sitting in Jackson's chair. She said she was teaching her doll and was singing her songs from the iPad!

Summer Flew By!

Wow my last post was from June! The summer has really flown by this year! Although I didn't get to put up weekly posts, I am posting a shutterfly book that I just made that encapsulates our summer months!

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Shutterfly allows you to customize your photo book just the way you want.

Our beach vacation

Our annual beach vacation to Corolla was a great time. Of course I'm the wrong person to ask really how it went because I feel like I need a 2nd vacation afterwards. It's just not easy with a very special child with very special needs. I took lots of pictures and captured many of the fun moments! Click on the link below!

2013 Vacation Pictures

One of our last sunsets

The kids sleeping together on our last night

Summer is here!

Carl is out of town for hopefully the last time in the series that started in November 2012. He's been gone every month since and it's made for some challenges for our family. Although this last trip came up rather unexpected, he was able to come home soon than scheduled. Yay for that!!
Knowing that I like to be busy, I had made plans for the whole time he was gone so when he surprised me and said he was coming home early, I still kept my plans (with his ok of course!)

Saturday morning we had planned to go to our friend Ethan's tee ball game and then I told the kids we could get donuts since we had to be up early for the game. Tenley and Ethan will marry eachother one day... She just loves him and he is very sweet to her!

Mr. Cool in his shades (for the 2 seconds that he'd leave them on!)

And this is how she ate her donut...who leaves sprinkles??