Swimming at the Aquatic Center

The kids and I spent three hours at the new aquatic center yesterday. I didn't get any pictures of the fun activities and things to do at the pool, but believe me - the boys had a blast. After 2 1/2 hours, Ethan finally came to me and said, "I'm all done. I'm ready to go home." Aidan still wanted to stay, so we gave him 10 more minutes. He would have stayed ALL day if I would have let him.
Kaitlyn wasn't so sure what to think. She held on to me for dear life when I took her in the lazy river. The rest of the time, she just acted a bit - startled. Not scared, but not excited either. She finally fell asleep for about 1/2 hour on my shoulder (we went during her naptime).

Bathroom

Kaitlyn spent 10 minutes doing this tonight. (The video is only 30 seconds long. If you look carefully at the 16 second mark, you can see her two bottom teeth.)

Kaitlyn's Newest Thing

There's that tongue again...
These clothes are 12-18 months. And they are only a little big!

The Boys Love to do Things to Make Her Laugh

Kaitlyn's First Bonk as a Result of Crawling

The First Mess Kaitlyn Ever Made

Well, besides messy diapers...

A Magic Trick

Ice Fishing

(The boys spent all day last Saturday ice fishing with the Knights and the Ellsworths.)

Ice fishing was fun. We went with Eric Knight, Zachary Knight and his dad, and Holden and Wesley and his dad. And Daddy took us. And we also goed sledding. We catched a fish. And I caught a fish by myself. My favorite part of the whole trip was sledding.

Love, Aidan

I had a fun time ice fishing. I had fun playing with the dogs. It was fun there. What we did with the dogs is we found a pine cone, we would toss it in the air and the dogs would catch it. (Other ice fishermen brought dogs.)

Love, Ethan

Snuggies

Knock knock.
Who's there?
Snuggy.
Snuggy who?
My Snuggy is so snuggy!

It has a button on it. And when you want to close it, it has a yarn strip like this long (24 in) and you roll it up, and then you tie the long strip to the Snuggy and then you tie it so it can stay.

Love, Aidan

I like my Snuggy. And one of our friends sewed it for us and it's fun to have around me. I like it.

Love, Ethan

Determination

Sledding on CAL Ranch Hill

Today Daddy took us sledding. And I jumped on a little hill and a big hill. A little jump. It was fun, really much. It was cold. But I was sweating, and I was sweating and I made this (a fauxhawk). I really like to sled that day.

Love,
Aidan

I liked sledding. It was really fun. I fell down on purpose once, because I didn't fall at all the whole time. It was so fun. We really liked it. We did some pretty big jumps. Plus we stayed there for an hour and thirty minutes.

Love,
Ethan

Christmas Morning

The Only Recent Picture of our Entire Family

and a cute picture of Kaitlyn, too.

Kaitlyn's Christmas Dress

Piano Recital

My piano recital with all of my students was last night (I have 10 students not including Ethan and Aidan). I haven't done lessons on a very regular basis with Ethan and Aidan, but they are both on the last song in level one. The day before my piano recital (Wednesday), Ethan decided he wanted to be in my recital. So he learned and memorized "Good King Wenceslas" in one day! Here's the video of him playing: