Saturday, November 27, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration this year at Nannie & “Opa”s house! We got to help Nannie make her special stuffing, set the table with all of our homemade crafts that we made with mommy, eat a delicious meal & spend a lot of fun time with our family! We are very thankful this year!

-Abby & Emily

IMG_3243

IMG_3267

IMG_3244

IMG_3234  IMG_3263

IMG_3358

IMG_3355

IMG_3344

IMG_3331

 

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

 

We hope your family had a wonderfully special day too, and that you are as grateful for all your blessings as we are!

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Our popcorn party at preschool!

Today was a special day at preschool, as we celebrated Thanksgiving with a popcorn party! Mommy even came and took some pictures!

- Abby

IMG_3193 copy

We sang a fun song about how we use all of our five senses when we make popcorn…

IMG_3136  IMG_3154

IMG_3167 IMG_3169

I have such a good time with all my friends, but we missed our other classmate Allie who is out of town…

IMG_3175

After our snack time, we lined up to head down to the basement, where there was a cool surprise waiting for us…

IMG_3213  IMG_3211

Our very own Indian Teepee! My Indian name was “Singing Sparrow”!

IMG_3218 IMG_3232

We’ve been learning SO much in preschool…

IMG_3116

My favorite job is to feed the fish, but handing out the flutes is pretty cool too…

IMG_3115 IMG_3135

We’ve been learning about the 5 senses lately!

IMG_3114

Grandma Worthing is VERY patient about helping me learn to write my letters and numbers!

IMG_3104  IMG_3126

IMG_3108

You’re the best Grandma Worthing!

IMG_3199

Monday, November 22, 2010

That magical time of year…

We started getting ready for Christmas this weekend, and are all remembering how magical this time of year is! Getting down all the decorations and toys from the attic has gotten us so excited for the season ahead! We have so much to look forward to!

 

There’s the beautiful Nativity to learn about (thank you Mor-Mor!)…

IMG_3094

IMG_3057

Christmas games, puzzles & books to keep us busy…

IMG_3020

IMG_3036

Our Christmas Berry wreath is hung on the front door to welcome any visitors we may have…

IMG_3042

Time to bring out the hand-knit winter hats and the snowman jammies to keep us toasty warm…

IMG_3026IMG_3030

December 1st seems SO far away when there’s chocolate to be eaten (Thanks Nannie & Opa!)…

IMG_3100

Time to help daddy hang the lights on the house…

IMG_3024IMG_3039

Of course it’s time to get the tree up, with it’s beautiful new tree skirt (thank you Grandma Nancy!)…

IMG_3070

It’s even time to start posing for the Christmas card picture… mommy’s breaking it up into a few “short” photoshoots this year to see what she can get…

IMG_2898

IMG_2903

IMG_2943 (2)   IMG_2963 (2)

IMG_3002a

Enjoy the season!

-Abby & Emily

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Beignets!

IMG_3076

I finally got to play Tiana with REAL Beignets! Thanks for helping me daddy… You’re awesome!

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

I’m a BIG girl now!

I’ve been sitting on the potty lately just trying it out like my big sister, and I finally went on it tonight! (Too bad mommy didn’t brush my hair for my first potty pictures…) Woohoo! I’m growing up so fast!

-Emily

IMG_2884

IMG_2876

IMG_2877

IMG_2879

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

The Children’s Museum!

Today, mommy took us to the Children’s Museum with a few of our friends from the MOMS Club, and we had an AWESOME time!

-Abby & Emily

We got to ride in and pretend to drive a fire truck:

IMG_2785 

IMG_2786

We rode on a pirate ship:

IMG_2774

IMG_2779

Abby put on an awesome puppet show:

IMG_2783

Emily learned all about moving air & gravity:

IMG_2801

We played house & Emily found a baby to carry around all over the museum:

IMG_2799

IMG_2829

We went grocery shopping in the store:

IMG_2825

Abby delivered all the mail:

IMG_2818

Emily got to be a nurse (although she didn’t like that part very much):

IMG_2820

Abby & her friend Louise pretended to be ballerinas:

IMG_2824

We practiced being artists:

IMG_2838

IMG_2840

IMG_2845

IMG_2847

Emily loved building with blocks & doing puzzles (her two favorite things these days):

IMG_2854

IMG_2861

And of course, the fun mirrors were the highlight… we could pretend to be tall)!:

IMG_2848

IMG_2850

IMG_2864

Thanks for a fun day mommy!

Abby's last high school homecoming

Abby enjoyed her last high school homecoming dance with her friends, and it was extra special since it had to double as her senior prom sinc...