Saturday, February 25, 2012

Birthday girl!





Our beautiful five year old!
Hard to believe Corinne is five!
It seems like yesterday that we planned her 1st birthday party.

Corinne is such a loving, sensitive, smart little girl! At 5 Corinne.....

• loves playing the piano. She started lessons with me a few months ago and has even performed in a recital. She practices every day- more than once usually- and makes her mom and dad happy with the beautiful songs she makes up! (at least we think they are beautiful!)

•LOVES clothes and fashion. She doesn't care where the clothes come from (resales and garage sales!) but she insists on picking out her outfit each day. She usually ends up in leggings and a dress. Corinne is all girl and always has a big flower in her hair.

•spends half of her day at the kitchen table drawing and coloring. Corinne loves drawing girls in long beautiful gowns. She says she wants to be a fashion designer someday. I don't know where this comes from...her mama is lucky to look fashionable once a week!

• goes to ballet once a week and has so much fun!

•does school 3 times a week at home with Caleb. She loves learning and is reading well, writing a lot, and getting very good at addition! She's so fun to teach!

•makes friends easily and loves having play dates with her friends. Her and Caleb play very well together most of the time!

•loves to please! Sometimes she'll do all of her morning chores before she comes down in the morning just to surprise me!

•has made her mommy and daddy very proud!! We love our little girl so much (even though of course she says she's not little anymore!). We thank God for her every day and are so thankful that she is healthy!!

Happy birthday Corinne!




Friday, February 10, 2012

Child labor?

This kid loves to help out around the house!














This one is gross I know.....He snuck upstairs, got the brush from under the cupboard and was scrubbing away when I found him!

PS...after I finished writing this I found him plunging the toilet! (Disgusting!!)

Sunday, January 22, 2012


I've been teaching Corinne piano lessons for several months now and it's been a lot of fun! She loves practicing and is always asking for more lessons. I had a recital for all of my students last night and Corinne performed too. She did really well and had a lot of fun!

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Christmas season highlights....

Over the past month we....


visited Santa for the first time ever...(not sure the boys ever want to go back!)








Put up the tree...


Spent Christmas eve with my family... (first time all five kids have been home in 12 years!!)


























Got a huge doll house...


And most importantly talked about Jesus each and every day, remembering why we get to celebrate this magical time of year. I LOVE December!
Corinne really wanted to get her hair cut a few weeks ago. She said she was sick of the "bird nest" that she woke up with each day. I loved her long hair- but she definitely needed some cut off to make it look healthy again.








Before....


During....


After! We love our pretty little girl! :)

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Homeschool

We're having lots of fun in school these days! Here are a few pictures.


















Doing school with the kids is my favorite part of the day! It's so fun to see them interact and even more fun to see them actually learning!

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Happy Birthday Cal!




Who? Me?



Wow! That was fast! How did a year go by already?



Here's what I'm up to....

*Walking (only five steps so far!)

*lots of babbling. I can say mama, dada and danger. I hear those words a lot!

*eating...everything is sight!

*two naps a day and 12 hours at night).

*lots and lots and lots of playing! (I'm pretty popular with my brother an sister!)

*lots of kisses and cuddles from mommy and daddy. I think they kinda like me!