Up on the Housetop

Sledding in the back yard. This was a few weeks back when it was bitter cold. The boys are speed demons and love to jump and go... Katie just likes to be pulled around... Katie is loving all the new stuff that is coming out with Christmas. She loves the songs... Up on the Housetop is her favorite right now. We're all getting a little tired of it ;) Here she is decked out in her Santa hat... She loves the rudolph nose too! A year ago we were in Russia meeting her for the very first time... Time goes by quickly!

Picture Time

Computer Time

The boys each read and quiz on a story a night from the website raz-kids.com. It's a subscription that their school has and they love it. Especially Alex who isn't that fond of reading... Well in the world of fair sharing, Katie has to have her computer time too... So she is working with starfall.com It's what the kindergarteners use in our district and does letter sounds, words of that letter and has some music and dancing dolls in it. She loves it and will beg for the dddd or iiii throughout the day. It's a race to the computer at night to be the first to get their activity done for the night. At least they are fighting turns over something educational! Thankfully, Mark built them a computer a few years back so they can use their own in a relatively quiet room without destroying my computer!

In other news, it's just plain cold this week... Unseasonably cold... -25 the other day in the morning and if we are lucky getting to zero...

Sweet Hope

Now is the time to buy your chocolate and support Khabarovsk Baby Orphanage #1 in Russia at the same time. Katie was lucky enough to get a toy last year for Christmas from this fundraiser. There is only a little over a week left to get some yummy chocolate and do a great deed for some kids at the same time!

http://sweethopefoundation.org

Bad Moose

A few weeks back the moose were visiting at Nana and Pappy's house. They were eating the flowers that had died outside. Nana said "Bad Moose", so Katie said "Bad Moose". It's been her theme for quite a while. When we were off with Sammy after his surgery... Look who came visiting... And Katie said by the window for 2 hours! telling the moose how bad he was for eating our stuff. She rambled on and on lots of stuff, but it was a repeat of "bad moose"...