new technique to make them laugh

"reading"

one of noble's favorite books "brown bear brown bear what do you see?" is very repetative and here noble is "reading" it to aunty seena on skype. it goes "purple cat purple cat what do you see? i see a white dog looking at me" and so on.

desperate

we are vowing to take our kids to the snow this year. look at how desperate they are...it's 70 degrees but they just want to wear their snow attire.

hooked on phonics

mahala's writing skills have really been improving and she loves writing which is nice to see. she has been sounding out words and writing them out phonetically-and you will see great examples of that here! she has labeled each sticker and did this as a surprise for us. "toucan" is "tocan", "seal" is "seyl" and "happy face" is "hapefas". she was really proud that she could do this-and of course, it surprised us that she could get this far.

10.0 from all of the judges

we just discovered "kids choice" time at a gym nearby, kids get to play on all of the gymnastics apparatus for an hour on saturday mornings. now guess who wants to take lessons?

mahala is 5!

proud grandparents