Too Tired to Eat!

Pajama Party

There's nothing more cuddly than freshly bathed kids in their jammies!

Silly Smiles

This is Ava's new smile when she poses for pictures. Pretty cute, but it's going to make it hard to get a decent picture for our Christmas cards since she shuts her eyes!

School Girl

Anna loves preschool. She often wakes up and asks if it is Tuesday or Thursday, the days she goes to preschool. This is a cooperative preschool...meaning the parents are required to take turns helping out in the classroom. Anna was Star Child a few weeks ago so both Jeff and I had the opportunity to help out (and we actually did have a lot of jobs to do...preparing snack, cleaning up, checking backpacks for notes, helping with the project of the day, etc.). It was a lot of fun and we got to see how much fun Anna was having at school.

Yesterday after school Anna was so excited to give me a "special" envelope. Inside it was her first progress report. The teacher assesses the students in different areas such as: Social development, emotional development, speech/language, listening skills, and self-help skills. There are about 20 skills that were assessed, and overall Anna did great! On all but two skills she received A's (the A stands for "Almost Always" masters this skill). The two skills that she got P's in (she exhibits this skill "Part of the time") were sharing and self-control. No surprises there!!! In fact if I'm surprised that she didn't get the lowest score of S (Still developing this skill). She has NEVER been keen on sharing. And the self-control issue was seen first hand by her teachers. They had to pull her off not one, but TWO boys one day when they took a toy away from her. At least I know that she can hold her own!

Our Little Dancer

This is Anna before she went to dance class today. This was the 4th class and was the first time she wanted to wear this black outfit. She usually wants to wear her pink outfit to be like the other little girls.

It was a parent-viewing class today so we got to watch them. It was pretty cute. For the recital in March they are tap-dancing to Who Wrote the Book of Love and their ballet number will be to Can't Help Falling in Love, which is Grandma Dawn's favorite song.

Ava likes going to dance class, too. Usually we wait in the hall for 45 minutes while Ava stands by the door saying "Anna." Today she got to watch Anna and proudly pointed at Anna while repeating her name. She loves her big sister!