January Re-Cap

So I'm not very good about staying up to date - I might just do better at a once a month update!  Here are a few things that happened in our family during January.

Brianna had a couple of friend birthdays to go to - here she is dressed up for a Rock Star b-day, she won a prize for her costume ;-)

And as always, she has to be a goof!

Kaylee had a dress-up day at school, it was 'Injured Day' - I was so worried someone was going to report me ;-)  I took a pic before school - I guess she was acting like a zombie.

That day after school she got her hair cut - chopped a few inches off and added bangs and a feather.

I was in charge of Mommy Preschool one day - I had a lot of fun stuff planned because it was also Chinese New Year that day.  Unfortunately only one kid showed up, and she was late, so we did most of the stuff on our own.  We wore red, did a ribbon dance (made from pencils and crepe paper streamers I had on hand), and ate our fruit snacks with chopsticks.  I also made fortune cookies - our letter for the day was N so the fortunes in the cookies just had Nn on it.  Our assigned shape and number for the day were rectangle and 12 which worked out perfectly as we talked about Dominoes.  Brailee liked doing math facts with them.  Here she is gluing her 12 dots onto her Dominoe.

Ribbon Dance

Chopsticks

Brianna got glasses this month - she was so excited when we found out at her yearly eye appointment - and even more excited when they finally arrived.  She just needs them for reading and schoolwork.

This big guy had a birthday - can you guess how old he is?

I love the smile on his face as we sang Happy Birthday.  I went super simple on the cake - crushed up some cookies to make dirt and added some toy construction vehicles - he loved it!

As he opened this present from Gma and Gpa DeVries he was so excited to see 'Poppers' - my kids love to jump on these and pop them.  He was also excited to see the presents too.  With each present he would open he would say, 'Ooooh' and then it was usually followed by 'I love it!'  Even the new church shoes he got received a hug and 'I love them!'  He's easy to please!

Love this little guy.  Sometimes he's super cheesy...

...but when he pulls this face, watch out!

I love how these two get along (most of the time).  They have fun together while the older two are in school.  I weighed them the other day just before they jumped in the bathtub and they were both exactly 39.4 pounds.  It really doesn't surprise me that they weigh the same even though she is 2 years older.  Trysten (3) is just solid and Brailee (5) is a lot thinner (and about a head taller.)  Trysten's height is in his upper body and Brailee's is in her legs.  Such cuties!

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