Teacher Juli

I brought Renee over to Juli's house yesterday so I could clean my house. It's SO awesome having her living so close now, not only do we both have the ease of dropping the girls off with each other, but Natalie and Renee get to see each other almost every day! They don't always play nice, but it's a learning process.....for all of us. Anyway, yesterday was one of the 'better' days. Juli said they did great, no fighting at all.....awesome! So, Juli took the opportunity to work on some 'Preschool' with them. I've tried to sit with Renee and work on shapes and letters and numbers, but she just doesn't have the patience. She knows her shapes, but can't draw them. She can sing the alphabet, but doesn't recognize the letters. She can count to (almost) 20, but does not recognize the numbers. I think I just need to stick with it, every day, whether she's focused or not. I don't even think to do things like this (below)! It gets her thinking, it's an awesome little memory for me, and it'll show us how she's growing and changing.

Anyway! Here's what Juli did with her.........

Renee Daniela Jean (3 years)

Favorites:
Cereal - Rice
Vegetable - Peas
Fruit - Grapes
Drink - Chocolate Milk
Treat - Mini Oreos
Toy - Dora
TV Show - Backyardigans
Movie - "Thindewelly" (Cinderella)
Game - Olivia
Book - Olivia too
Restaurant - "Thu-Chi" (Sushi)
Holiday - Christmas. Halloween and Christmas
Animal -Elephants
Color - Green
Number - 7

If you could change your name, what would you choose? Just Renee

What do you love about Daddy? (Couldn't answer so I asked "What makes you happy about Daddy?" instead.) Mmm..... He helps me pedal. (later when Daddy asked her about this, she told him....'On my trike')

What do you love about Mommy? She helps me pedal too.

What do you love about Echo? She loves dog treats.

What do you love about Kimbum? She poops and pees and pukes. It's yucky, it's not funny.

Me: "But that's yucky! What do you love about her?" Renee: She pees in the litta' box. (actually she doesn't! she pees in the bathtub! I hate that cat)

What do you love about Recon? He pukes too. He's nice. He's nice. (actually, he doesn't puke, he's more like a dog than a cat)

If we get to go on vacation this year, where would you like to go? I'd go to Max & Kody's.

What are some of your wishes for this year? My wish is to play outside.

Thank you so much for doing this Juli! I want to do this once a month, it's so cute!!!

She was supposed to draw a picture of herself, but she drew too many legs, so it's a Spida'.

Surprises!?!

So, I haven't announced it to my blogger friends yet, but we're pregnant! I'm almost 4 months along, due July 2nd. I'm pretty sure almost everyone knows, but as some people don't catch up as often as they'd like (Faith), I figured I should post it!

Anyway, we're entertaining the idea of not finding out the gender of the babe. We're still talking about it, but I told Adam he could make the final decision! Yikes! The ultrasound is scheduled for February 3rd. I just added a poll to the top right, so please vote! I'm wondering your opinion, and if you've been surprised or found out ahead of time (and have a fun story), please share your thoughts! ;-)

Sorry the font of the question is so small. I need to change the blog background, and I'm too tired to do it right now.

We have a name!!

The final decision is beautiful!

Chloe Olivia Charlotte!

Chloe? Clair?

The newest addition to our ever growing family has arrived! Laura and Daniel's sweet baby girl (no name yet) was born January 4th 2010. They have 2 boys, Ben (3 1/2) and Isaac (2 1/2), and now a sweet little girl! I would have a million pictures myself, but with all the crazy new hospital policies they can only have 3 visitors (in addition to the daddy) at the hospital for the entire stay. Lame! So, *here's* a link to Diane's (the grandmother) blog to check out the pics. Enjoy!

Merry Christmas!!

Here are some of my favorites! We went to Portrait Innovations again this year. I was very pleased, again! They're not the absolute best, but you get a lot for your money, and I think our pics turned out great!

This probably would have been our Christmas picture if it wasn't for the lighting. Unfortunately, after they took the dark (you know, the side shots) pics of Renee, the flash wasn't working correctly. So, we had to go back in and re-do our Christmas pic.

Poor Squirrel did so good during the shoot. Unfortunately, every time they took a picture the flash would bother her eyes. The poor thing just toughed through it though! She was so patient and cooperative, we were very proud of her!
Cutie pie!
I thought the egg shell blue background was so dumb. Most people wear red and green, or classic black or white for Christmas pics. That blue doesn't really match! Ew! Though, my sister (Juli) loved it!

Cute us.

This was our Christmas card.

Love this one! That's a real smile on Renee's face because she got to have her pig in the picture!

My beautiful girl.

Her poor watery eyes.

Love this smile!!

She tried so hard to hold it!

Her new thing

This is what she always wants to do now! Mommy, can we play a game? Between Adam's new iTouch and my computer, this kid is going to be the biggest nerd!

Don't forget, my little nerd is not even 3 yet!!

Crisp walk

We went for a walk yesterday.

Here's my cheeseball with a veggie stick in her mouth.

Silly Meadow (the 16 month old I watch 3 days a week)

Walkin'