Music

My kids love music. Here are some updated piano pictures....

Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving with my parents. It was small only us and my Aunt and Uncle. Janna fell asleep and we had to wake her up and that didn't work really well, but she did get to see the table with all the food. My mom did a great job of preparing the meal. It was really odd not having my grandma there, who is now in a nursing home. She doesn't know what is going on anyway but not seeing her there was different. We did go visit her on Saturday. Janna and Simon were very well behaved. Simon was blowing kisses to the residents on the way out. I think they liked seeing young children around. Janna brought Great Grandma a small Christmas tree for her room. Friday we went to the Festival of Lights at the Cincinnati Zoo. It was very cold, but very pretty. I loved the lights. Simon loved the Swan Lake lights with the music. Janna got cold fast and kept asking to go back to Grandma's house. Janna did like the colored lights. They did have a Santa there with a very small line and a mail box for his letters, but Janna and Simon were both fussy, tired, and hungry, so we just passed by it. Since we went early at 5pm when it opened it wasn't busy and we had a good time. I even got a good family picture. Janna enjoyed helping decorating the house and Simon enjoyed taking them down. It was fun to see:) It was a great weekend and we look forward to Christmas.

Simon Update

Simon is a very active little boy and into everything you can think of plus more.

Simon is now saying "oooo" (moo) when picking up any animal that looks like a horse, cow, zebra, ect...

He is also saying "ack ack" ( quack) when he play with ducks. He love the rubber duckies in the bath tub.

He is pointing a lot more and gets upset when you don't understand what he wants.

He is still going to sleep really well overall. He is waking up less, but it depends on his ears.

Lately it has been fun to watch him walk and run around because of his ears he still a bit off balance so he bumps in to walls and zig zag.

He loves school and his friends. Somedays he doesn't want to come home with me.

He has started liking videos now and it helps calm him down before bed.

Yes he is still in the pack and play in the study.....maybe we will use the crib once Mom and Dad take all their boxes.

He likes to push the hotwheel cars around the house.

He wants to do everything Janna is, he loves his big sister.

Which Papa?

When talking about Christmas in the car this morning on the way to school we were talking about seeing Grandma and Papa. I told her we get to see the ones with Merchie the dog very soon. She said and papa, the one with hair. (My dad is going bald-claims it is my fault.) I got a good laugh, then she starts to tell me how she is going hug grandma and papa when then come back from Chile (it is so cute how she says Chile).

Simon also pointed to their pictures the other night.

We miss you guys and can't wait to give you a big hug!

Janna update

Janna can now write the letter J, big and little. Sometimes they are backwards, but she is really trying.

Janna is talking a lot of growing up and getting bigger and going to kindergarden.

She is dressing herself in the morning with little or no help.

She is a great helper at fetching stuff for me when needed.

She can spell ....she spells toy and a couple other words

She will spell the letters on signs and store and sound them out or ask what they say. It is so much fun to watch her learn.

Last night she was sounding our syllables with her friends names. She was counting the syllables. She didn't get any of the numbers right but she had the idea.

Janna is very excited about Christmas and snow and seeing family. She mentions a couple of toys sometimes but usually talks about grandma and papa and snow.


The best thing about Janna lately is her love of Simon. She loves to hug him. She also has been hugging us more and loving on us more. I love this:)