So sad that it has taken me THIS long to actually post something to the blog. Holy smokes.
Valentine's Day was a lot of fun this year. We started the day off with some heart shaped pancakes.
When each of the kids got home from school, Ethan's in the first grade now and Kiari started pre-school, they found a special note at the end of some yarn that said, "I love Ethan/Kiari because...." They had to follow the yarn, which had been strung throughout part of the house, to find a Valentine surprise. Along the way were paper hearts taped to the yarn that had various things written on them, different things that I loved about each of them. It was a lot of fun to watch them!
Ethan lost his first tooth!! and he was thrilled.
It's a good thing he knows that I'm his tooth fairy otherwise he may have been a little frustrated about having to wait a week to finally redeem his prize.
FINALLY I drew up a simple little map and placed it under his pillow (not my original idea, I got it from a friend of mine).
At the end of the map was his prize!!
Trent and I had an early Valentine's Day date, dinner and a night at the symphony. It was a Broadway night and the symphony had invited two guest singers, both with a plethora of Broadway experience. It was a really enjoyable evening.
Life has been moving steadily along. We love being back in Idaho and I'm obsessed with our house, I absolutely love it. I love where it is. I love how it feels inside. I love that there's still so much that I can do with it!
We bought Ethan and Kiari each a goat last spring as way to teach them about responsibility and ultimately finances. We don't pay them for doing their chores so as the goats get old enough to have babies and milk the kids will be able to sell those things and basically have their own little business to run. Yep. We're officially country folk.
Ethan is doing really well in school. If we hadn't left Idaho he would be would be in Kindergarten this year. With the way that he's been thriving in first grade I can't imagine him only being in Kindergarten this year.
Kiari has been in preschool this year and LOVES it. Her teacher is fabulous and Kiari adores her. She's also made some great friends.
Enoch is starting to communicate with more complete sentences and I can't get enough of his little voice.
It's now March 20th, a few week since I actually started putting this post together and since then we found out that VanderBaby #4 will be joining us October 12th.
WE'RE THRILLED.
HOORAY FOR AN UPDATE!!
Hopefully I can get back into the swing of this, eh???
And maybe I'll figure out how to format my posts better.
Until then.....
Ethan lost his first tooth!! and he was thrilled.
It's a good thing he knows that I'm his tooth fairy otherwise he may have been a little frustrated about having to wait a week to finally redeem his prize.
FINALLY I drew up a simple little map and placed it under his pillow (not my original idea, I got it from a friend of mine).
At the end of the map was his prize!!
Trent and I had an early Valentine's Day date, dinner and a night at the symphony. It was a Broadway night and the symphony had invited two guest singers, both with a plethora of Broadway experience. It was a really enjoyable evening.
Life has been moving steadily along. We love being back in Idaho and I'm obsessed with our house, I absolutely love it. I love where it is. I love how it feels inside. I love that there's still so much that I can do with it!
We bought Ethan and Kiari each a goat last spring as way to teach them about responsibility and ultimately finances. We don't pay them for doing their chores so as the goats get old enough to have babies and milk the kids will be able to sell those things and basically have their own little business to run. Yep. We're officially country folk.
Ethan is doing really well in school. If we hadn't left Idaho he would be would be in Kindergarten this year. With the way that he's been thriving in first grade I can't imagine him only being in Kindergarten this year.
Kiari has been in preschool this year and LOVES it. Her teacher is fabulous and Kiari adores her. She's also made some great friends.
Enoch is starting to communicate with more complete sentences and I can't get enough of his little voice.
It's now March 20th, a few week since I actually started putting this post together and since then we found out that VanderBaby #4 will be joining us October 12th.
WE'RE THRILLED.
HOORAY FOR AN UPDATE!!
Hopefully I can get back into the swing of this, eh???
And maybe I'll figure out how to format my posts better.
Until then.....
