Gingerbread house

The girls made a gingerbread house this morning!

Goodnight Olivia

I can't believe how well Paige can memorize things. She is part of Drama club at school and she already has all 6 of her lines memorized for the play that is a month away.

This is a video of her singing a song from the show Olivia. I can only remember about the first line, but she surprised me by singing the rest today! Funny thing is Olivia always wears a red and white striped shirt too!

Brooke's family portrait

Mommy, Daddy, and Brooke (we think).

School pictures

Halloween 2012

Had a great Halloween! Paige was a witch and Brooke was a fairy kitty. It was gorgeous: 70 degrees, clear skies, light breeze.

Parent night with Brooke

Tonight was parent night in Brooke's preschool class. She showed me many of her "jobs": practical life (scooping and such), puzzles, an alphabet game, the spindle box (counting), and sandpaper numbers. She's very good at counting, easily interprets written numbers as quantities, and probably knows half to two-thirds of her letter sounds. She's doing very well.

It's neat to explore her classroom with her after doing so with Paige last spring. For Paige, it was a room full of activities that she'd largely mastered. For Brooke, it was a room full of challenges to come.

At a Volleyball Game

There was a bake sale at the women's volleyball game to benefit one of the players, so we came up for the game today. This was the result of me asking them to look at the camera. :)