pre-Christmas singing extravaganza

Eva's holiday concert part 1. She is in the top left next to the kid in the orange shirt. You can't see her too well, but at least interested grandparents can see what the concert was like... :-)


Part 2:

Since Blogger seems to be uploading videos well today, here is the kids singing Jingle Bells. They never get to the verses, and they love it ... and it never ends! Yikes...

Videos and Peter's Birthday

Peter reading his Cars book. He's obsessed with the page about Mater and Lightning McQueen going tractor tipping.

The kids playing ball outside. It has been a beautiful October here.

Playing with Peter's new dinosaurs: he knows a handful of dinosaur names now, and obviously Eva knows a few more, but he's catching up quick -- the only show they watch these days is Dinosaur Train.

Pictures from Peter's birthday and a few other late fall pictures can be found here...

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Fall fun and Eva's birthday

http://s43.photobucket.com/user/AloraDanen/library/2013/Fall%20Firsts%20and%20Celebrations Pics from the last few months, including dance, soccer, school, and Eva's birthday. A number of these have been posted on Facebook, but some are new...

Pictures from Grandparent visits

Mostly pics of the kids eating... I guess that's mostly what they do! ;-) Thanks for all the visits, grandparents! :-)

You can tell it doesn't rain here very often...

Eva's preschool graduation

Not great pics or video, but here's a sample of what they did at
graduation. These two videos were the entire graduating classes (preK
through 1st), and these are the two songs they sang. Eva's class (3 and
4s alone) also sang two songs, but I didn't get those on video. Peter
was pretty squirmy (very very very squirmy) and Jon was out of town, so
it was a bit of a challenge!

Eva's in the front middle, greenish brown swirly dress.

Springtime pics!

Some springtime pics, although it was 90 degrees for a week, so some look like summer pics! :-)

Eva riding her bike.

Eva riding her bike...

Chicks and Chicks on Bikes!

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New pics from the last two months. We got three chicks and we're planning on getting a few ducks a well in a few weeks to add to our flock! So far both kids love the chicks, and we've managed to not let Peter kill any, so I think we're doing pretty good! We also got a loaner two-wheeler that's a little smaller than Eva's Christmas bike, and after all her balance bike practice, she picked up biking right away. Took her about two minutes to be biking without training wheels, and soon after that she was even figuring out how to start on her own and get pedaling. Exciting! Once she grows just a little taller, she'll be ready to do her Christmas bike without training wheels.

Chicks and Chicks on Bikes

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New pics from the last two months. We got three chicks and we're planning on getting a few ducks a well in a few weeks to add to our flock! So far both kids love the chicks, and we've managed to not let Peter kill any, so I think we're doing pretty good!

We also got a loaner two-wheeler that's a little smaller than Eva's Christmas bike, and after all her balance bike practice, she picked up biking right away. Took her about two minutes to be biking without training wheels, and soon after that she was even figuring out how to start on her own and get pedaling. Exciting! Once she grows just a little taller, she'll be ready to do her Christmas bike without training wheels.

 

 A few videos. The first is Eva's "tiger dance."

 



 

This is Eva biking this morning at the park before church:

Winter pics

New pics from 2013 so far. We've mostly been sick this year, so... yeah. Hope that's over with!