Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

Carter and Ella singing Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - their new favorite song. It really has made Christmas fun this year, seeing their excitement and hearing them sing. Push the pause on the playlist so you can hear it.

Ella turns three!

On Nov. 4th Ella turned three! I can hardly believe my little girl is no longer a toddler but a "preschooler" although technically not in preschool; that would require being POTTY TRAINED! But I'm not frustrated or anything. :) I took her to the doctor for her yearly check up and they gave me a sheet of questions to ask her. One of the questions was to have her identify some animals on the paper. There was a cat, horse, fish, man etc. First I pointed to the cat and asked her what it was. With much enthusiasm she said "a lion"! Great I thought, right family lets go on. Next I pointed to the horse and she said "a zebra"! I laughed did a couple more and then pointed to the man. "It's Jesus!" she exclaimed. There's my little Ella always making things just a little better than they are.

More Home Improvements

More pictures for you Mom and Dad. Of course I thought you would never see these changes because we would have moved before you got back but now it doesn't look like we will be going anywhere until the economy stabilizes.



So we finally moved Parker's crib into Carter's room. He still sleeps at night in ours because he wakes very early in the morning but at least he can now nap in his bed and I can have my room and computer back.



Carter's trophy shelf.



Our new shelves in our Hallway.

M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!!!

We decided to celebrate the jewish holiday at Disneyland! Okay, so we're not jewish but Carter had the day off from school so we thought we'd go before Ella turned 3 and we had to pay for her. It was very hot! But lots of fun to forget for a day about the economy, life stresses and most important it was great just to be together as a family.



The kids have graduated from Dumbo. Now only the faster rockets will do.



I'm sure this will come all too soon.



The favorite ride for Ella was the toon town rollercoaster. She cried everytime it was over.



Matt didn't dare ride the tea cups right after lunch. Last year I was pregnant and sick at Disneyland so this was a piece of cake!



It's obvious that Matt did the better job of taking the pictures. He is sadly not in very many and this one is blurry but it's the best I got. And yes, Parker was there.

A Random Smattering of Pictures

Carter played Mighty Mite Basketball in the summer. His favorite thing about it was sitting on the "bench" or lack thereof with his friends. So maybe we don't have a future NBA star on our hands but look he got a cool trophy!




Bath Time! Parker and Ella both love their baths. Carter is now into showers and well he's old enough that he won't let me take a picture :)



Carter and Ella both love their baby broder Parker (in Ella's words). What's not to love. He's cute, smiles at them whenever they talk to him and he's too little to take their toys yet.