Rosemary's Preschool Program

Rosemary had her first preschool program last month. Her class had a little party, but before we ate the kids sang a few songs. Rosemary didn't sing until the last song, but she had those hand motions down.

Singing "Twinkle, twinkle"

Jingle bells

"We Wish You a Merry Christmas"

This is Rosemary and her best buddy, Ian. Ian and his family moved to Texas over Christmas so he won't be there when Rosemary starts back to school. Those two were partners in crime.

Rosemary with Miss Teresa

With Miss Sam

Post-Christmas Cheer

A friend from MOPS sent me one of her family and I couldn't resist.

Merry (late) Christmas!

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Cane Days

Last weekend we went to Cane Days with Jen, Nathan, and Gavin.

The boys enjoyed watching the men sawing the logs.

We saw a few friends playing some bluegrass.

The kids got to drink some cane juice. Jonathan describes it as a combination between sweet tea and apple juice.

Rosemary really enjoyed this game, but the poor guy in the shed looks less than thrilled that she's there.

Oddly, the three kids loved shucking the corn. Another little girl made Rosemary a cornhusk doll.

Ben spent the day in the Bjorn with dad.

This might have been a race. Nathan was really intense.

Tug o' war is not Rosemary's best game. I'm not sure that she even picked up the rope.

It took a little while, but Rosemary eventually started jumping in her sack. The race had finished a few minutes ago, but she had a great time.

You can check out more pictures on Jen's blog at www.alachuabremans.blogspot.com.

Ben's First Food

On December 3, Benjamin started rice cereal. He's doing really well, especially when we can use his fingers to help slurp the cereal down.

Ben at 5 Months

Five months already. Wow. Why does it seem faster this time around?

Thanksgiving 2008

We had a great Thanksgiving weekend this year with family. The first part we spent with my family then headed to the Peine's on Friday. We didn't have our camera out the second part so I only have photos from Thursday.

It was Ben's first Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, he didn't get to chow down on any of the delicious food.

Happy first Thanksgiving, baby boy!

Rosemary loves this dollhouse at my parent's house. She can spend hours with this.

Oh, this is so Rosemary.

Pa-pa, Grandma and Ben

Jonathan carved the turkey. He's our family's new official carver--he did a great job.

The feast. Rosemary couldn't wait to eat.

What a meal!

Decorating for Christmas

We got our tree up a little early this year. It's our first year with our new "slim" tree. Since our living room is also our computer room now, we thought it might be good to downsize the tree.

The tree went up a lot faster than our old one. Yay for pre-lit trees!


Jonathan hung the star. Since this photo was taken, this star has stopped working so the kids and I went to Lowe's and got a new one today. We weren't too heartbroken. We really didn't like this one.

Rosemary helped a lot this year.

Jonathan hung up the bride and groom ornament...

...I hung up the Yacht Club ornament...

and Rosemary hung up her Minnie Mouse ears.

She also hung up a lot of other ones on the bottom half of the tree, some even on the same branch.

All done!

Computer Whiz

Jonathan has started to show Rosemary how to play games on the computer. It started out with playing a few Curious George games from the pbskids website, then moved onto playing a few computer games that my mom got her last year for Christmas. I had never installed them because I didn't think she could do them yet. I was wrong.

I used to teach basic computer classes at Housing. Rosemary is better at using the mouse than most of the adults were. I don't know if it's due to the fact that she's not scared of breaking anything or she's just so used to seeing Jonathan and me use the computer, but she's really good. Some of the games are beyond her since she can't read, but she can master the ones that involve puzzles and building things.

Stepping Stones Thanksgiving Party

Rosemary's class hosted a Thanksgiving party for the kids and their parents the week before Thanksgiving. Jonathan was able to take off work to come up too.

I think Rosemary really enjoys her days at preschool. Sometimes it's hard to figure out exactly what happens during the day since her stories sometimes seem to be missing sections, but overall, she seems to really look forward to going and gets really excited whenever we drive by her school.

Rosemary sat at the table with the other kids and ate her meal...rather, she ate a few bites then saw other people eating brownies so she wanted one too!

Ben joined in the party.

Miss Teresa on the left and Miss Sam on the right. Rosemary wouldn't take a picture with them, so Jonathan did his best and got this "action" shot.

Happy Ben

Ezekiel's 3rd Birthday

Ezekiel turned three a few weeks ago so we headed up to Augusta for a quick trip for his party. This was the first birthday that we were able to celebrate with him and we had so much fun. Ezekiel and Rosemary are just 2 1/2 months in age so it's fun to watch how they're so similar.

Joel picked out a kid's tool kit that had all sorts of miniature tools and accessories. Ezekiel looked great in his hard hat and rainbow suspenders.

We put the kids in their pajamas before heading home. Rosemary wanted to take one more spin around the house on Clifford.

Ben got to celebrate too. He just didn't get any cake.

Dad

As some of you know, my dad had surgery (again) on Wednesday to remove a tumor on his spine. Well, the doctor's weren't able to completely remove the tumor, but they did take care of it as best they could and hopefully it won't be an issue again.

Right now, he's in ICU and will probably be transferred tomorrow with hopes of coming home either Sunday or Monday. If you could, please pray for another quick and easy recovery for my dad. We're so thankful that things have gone well so far.