March 2016

(If you're getting tired of receiving these emails, let me know!  No hard feelings at all.  I will say we ARE so close to getting to a monthly cycle.)

Remember those two darling girls the previous month?  Here's a video from S to her.  I just love the voice.

And then here's our hip hopping girl.

(click here to see the videos)

In March, our girl turned 4!  What did I learn?  You don't have the child stay up way too late the night BEFORE her birthday and then expect her to be anything but a bear the day of her birthday.  I was pretty done with her, the nieces and nephews, the whole lot of them by the end of the day!  But she had a good time with all her big cousins spending the night, making a big breakfast, and then going to the Please Touch Museum.  They mean so much to her.

Here are a few pics.

February 2016

These two girls' mothers are good, good friends.  Hopefully they too enjoy each other for life.  (click here to see video)

February was marked with Valentine's Day celebrations, cold days inside, and preparations for a 4th birthday, which involved a big girl bed, designing her new room with a full chalkboard wall.   Of course now she says there is nothing for her to do in there - mostly during Quiet Time though.  Here are some pics.  

January 2016

January was our first full month in our new home.  It was also marked by some amazing snowstorms, food coloring science experiments, and doing outside stuff inside the house (like riding tricycles in our living room...hmm...)

In our house, we have three things we don't say:  We don't say "I can't".  We don't say "I don't know". And we don't say "I'll try".  Our good friends asked S to tell her friend/their daughter these things, so she made the following videos.  (Click here to see them on the website.)

(Funny note - 6 months later, their daughter came over and told me on her own about things she doesn't say...it was really neat to see one child's positive influence on the other.)

Here are a few pics from the stormy season.

December 2015

Hurray!  The final 2015 post.  Just a few pics of the month.

S goes to see the Rudolph live show...

Helps to decorate Christmas Eve Desserts Party treat...

She gets a bunny, whose name is Daffodil Clover, for Christmas from Daddy...(and that Mom ends up taking care of way too much!)

Friend or foe?  Their first meeting...turns out the cat is more afraid of the bunny...

Day at my office during the holidays...

November 2015

November was when S finally started earning her keep, as you can see in the video below.  (Or click here to see it online.)

I just love that smile...and there are more in this set of pictures.

October 2015

As I go through these videos, I'm realizing how much this girl loves to dance.

(If you are having trouble seeing the videos in the email, click here to see them.)

In this month, we went to Akhila Atta's engagement party in Nashville.  This girl's favorite cousin-aunt is Akhila and she couldn't get enough of wanting to be her special niece.  She stole the show, in my humble opinion :)  Click here to see pictures from the month.

September 2015

September was crazy - we finished up managing major renovations on our condo WHILE we were away at the beach in Cape May, NJ - thanks Erwin for managing us so well through that!!

Ammamma visited us and we had lots of times of cooking and eating together.  Trying to keep pace with a 3.5 year old's picky palate was not my most favorite time though :)

Here are a few pics.

August 2015

August was full of dancing.  Dancing on our stoop steps; dancing at the Shore house to Matt's ukulele playing.  Dancing, dancing.

(if you can't see the videos here, click here to go to the post online)

And here is a link to other pics from the month.