One of my goals for the year is to be better about sharing on the blog. Life was busy from October to December of this past year with our vacation to Florida, friends for Thanksgiving, family for Christmas and trying to get a little bit of schooling in there for Bailee. I likely won't backtrack to share about the holidays but if you ever come to my house you can see the shutterfly book from our trip to Florida if you want to hear about it :) Dave switched to the day shift and it has been so wonderful having him home every evening. I didn't realize how much of a difference I would feel with him on days so we will be soaking up 8 months this year that he will be on the day shift because he switches every 4 months! Early in the school year Bailee wasn't very motivated to read, so Dave told her that once she learned how to read he would start reading Harry Potter with her. Well the day finally came! They got the book on Tuesday and are already at chapter 7. She is understanding more than I thought she would and she really enjoys the story. So far they have read from the original book but we are borrowing the illustrated version for book 2 and they are so neat! 

Bailee hit a milestone today in math and I was pretty excited! For math this year, we breezed through the first half of her curriculum rather quickly and got to addition a little sooner than she was ready for. We took a break and just reviewed other concepts. We went back to addition today and she grasped it! Her excitement is contagious when she finally understands something, which are the highlights of teaching her. For now, I get to be there when she has those moments :) 

and why not wear a ballet leotard while doing math? 😊 Can you spot what Elise usually does while we are doing school?? Eating... and playing nearby.. therefore the bag of ginger snap cookies and legos spread across the floor. 

Today was also cleaning and prepping for Elise's 3rd birthday party with friends on Saturday! She is really excited to have her first birthday and it has been fun to put things together so far. 12 little girls in our house for 2 hours Saturday morning will be exciting! She asked for a "joy and sadness" party. 

A friend took this and edited using an app called Prisma! Elise is very musical so this suits her well :)

This video goes with the post titled October 8, 2016

All day, every day. I usually share the once in a while events but I thought it would also be good to show you what they do the rest of the time. Princesses and pirates are their favorites to play with and they will play inside and outside with these little toys and role play with them. At dinner we started sharing our "sweet and sour" from our day and Bailee often says that her sweet from the day was playing with her sister Elise. 9.23.16

Playing with my camera and getting some shots of our cucumbers that are growing! They are much bigger now as this was from a week ago. 

Bailee threw a pretend surprise birthday party for Elise. I wish I captured Elise's words when she came into the room because she was so excited! She said "OH Thank you Bailee! It's my happy birthday day! I love my happy birthday day!" We kept my friend's daughter, Paige, for a couple of days while her mom was in the hospital having her baby brother. 

October 8, 2016

They tried on their Halloween costumes and then never got dressed after taking them off. I sent them outside to play and they were out there for a couple of hours playing like this. Yesterday Bailee was painting her toenails with mud and I thought it was a good mix of girlie and tomboy :) 

Running club 10.3.16

Running club 10.3.16