Lilly's Birthday

Lilly had a pretty good birthday yesterday. Instead of me telling you all about it, I thought you might enjoy hearing it from her...



We sang her a song...



And watched her open her present...

Caught on Video

For a second year we have caught Santa in the act... but this year we happened to have a video camera handy!



P.S. Can you tell I got a new toy for Christmas! ;-)

Christmas Eve, 2007 - Pajama Time

Every year my family gets new pajamas from Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. This year our friend Tennille (no Captain) was here with her two youngest. You can see the excitement...

December already!?

It is hard to believe it is already December. Where has the year gone? We are all well and we keep busy - go figure.

Katherine is doing great at school, she loves it and Math and Reading seem to be two of her favorite subjects. She continues to grow in her love of Art too and it is always a treat to see what she will bring home. Her teacher encourages her a lot as she has faith that Katherine has great potential in that arena. As of late her mummy picture was even one of the ones' chosen to be in the glass display case in time for conferences. It is really unique, while everyone did a pretty traditional sarcophogis she did a cat one. It is beautiful!! We have yet to get her into piano lessons but she loves to play it on her own and has begun picking up some basic reading skills of music and in any given week she plays at least 5 days.

Lillian also is loving school. She has grown immensly in her reading in the few months she has been at school and it is best described by my Dad that if there weren't so many funny rules in our language she would have it down pat. Lilly is following along in the art department as well - she really enjoys dabbling in it on occassion. Lilly is as social as ever, the daily phone calls for play dates slowed down finally!

Our kitten is not such a kitten anymore. He is growing right along and provides us with tons of joy - well maybe not ZoeMay, he seems to annoy her to death! He is always after her, biting and carrying on. Once he calms down he is a real love. He always greets us at the door when we get home, he begs to be picked up and once he is he purrs unendingly and then he also loves to give kisses!!

Mark enjoys his new job - although the drive he would happily do without. It seems to offer him a lot of opportunities already - he gets to build his own team of employees pretty much from ground up and really have people he feels are compitent and able in the job. Always a good feeling.

I am still at the same job, working in a school of children with disabilites. I attend school a couple evenings a week while I am working on my Masters' in Special Education. The girls and Mark and really tolerant of me being gone these evenings - actually I think the girls love it as they have two great sitters that come and sit both evenings until Daddy gets home.