Lilly's Birthday and Spring Break!

Lilly turned 4 on February 22nd. She had a great time eating dinner with Mema and Papa...but she really loved opening her presents. As you can see, the pile of gifts was as tall as she was. She now has all of the Hello Kitty clothing any little girl needs!

I cannot believe how big she is getting. We measured both kids, in two months Lilly had grown 1.5 inches and Aidan had grown 2 inches!!








We went on our first vacation in a couple of years. This was however, our first truly relaxing vacation! We usually go somewhere that is all site-seeing or visiting friends and family. This year we went to the ocean with almost all of Jonathan's siblings. 12 adults and 17 kids may not sound relaxing to everyone, but it meant that our kids were completely entertained, and we all had a little help in the parenting department.

Aidan looking for sea shells at the jetty. This was the best place for finding cool shells!

These sea gulls follow the ferry from the mainland to Galveston Island. The kids were able to feed them off the back of the ferry. They ate out of our hands! It was lots of fun.

Father and son crabbing. We caught several, but only two big enough to keep.

The view from our back porch. See why this was so relaxing!

This Week

This week was the most productive week we have had in a while! I was able to really do a full schedule of school with Aidan AND do some work with Lilly!!

Aidan did math and grammar everyday, we moved onto a new spelling rule and word list, we studied a science chapter, and we covered 3 history chapters! Aidan was excited to work on his history lap book again, I have not had the energy for the extra work and mess.

Lilly also worked on her letter lapbook. We only have 7 letters to go! But the biggest news for Lilly is that she decided it was time to start reading. We started Phonics Pathways this week. She has learned the five short vowel sounds, and 2-3 consonants. I was worried about blending, but the second day we worked on it, she started to get it! Yeah, Lilly!









It has been beautiful, so we played outside some this week. Lilly practiced her gymnastics moves on the swingset rings.

Thursday, we had co-op and the kids had a visit from the fire department. They spoke to the kids about fire safety and brought several trucks with them.










We have had a pretty good week, topped off by a visit from my sister. The kids have missed their Aunt Nini and were so happy to see her! We are looking forward to another great week!

Big News!

A few days after my last post, on Thanksgiving day, we found out we were expecting baby number three!! He is due at the beginning of August.We have all been very excited, but I have also been VERY VERY sick! I was not this sick with my first two kids.

After we made it through the holidays and our musical in January, I spent the next 8 weeks in a recliner. Aidan sat with me to do math and grammar, but that is all I could handle. I sent him to do reading on his own every day, but we put history and science on hold. I still had to teach my dance classes, so I used all my energy to get dressed and then did a lot of teaching from my chair. I was miserable!

I am feeling much better now and we have slowly added things back into our day. We managed to get pretty far ahead in math and grammar, so now we are focusing more on catching up on history. Aidan says we can do history during his summer vacation because it is fun and not like school. He is so funny, but I do want to get caught up and finish it by the end of May. I really need the summer to get ready for baby brother.

Baby Boy Morris, due August 2012!