Christmas Eve!

Julia and Ethan always look forward to pjs from Sitto, this year is no exception! They love them!

Finished houses!

Julia and Ethan are getting better each year at decorating their houses! Here are the finished pieces!

Gingerbread houses!

Julia and Ethan had lots of fun decorating their "gingerbread" houses tonight! But they had more fun eating the candy that was extra! Merry Christmas!

Christmas lights!!

Julia and Ethan had fun untangling the Christmas lights tonight, they decided to play in them, and bury each other in lights. :)

 Ethan started 2nd Grade today! He was pretty excited to be able to start 2nd grade, finally! He has waited his whole life to be in 2nd Grade! :) He had a great day and likes his teacher and the kids in his class. He wore his Angry Birds T-shirt and has an Angry Birds backpack, it isn't his favorite video game, but he thinks that the Angry Birds are pretty cool!

Julia started 3rd Grade this year! She can't believe that she is now the big kid at school. This is the last year for Julia and Ethan to both be in elementary school. She is very excited to be a 4th grader next year and go to the intermediate school. She has a very nice teacher as well and has most of the kids from her class last year in this year's class, which is wonderful, she knows and likes most of them. They all seem to be good kids!

We are looking forward to a great year full of fun and learning!

Farmington Edge ROCKS ON!!!!  
They won again!  That is 3-0

Julia up to bat:

Julia hit the ball 5 times........most were fouls.  :) 

 However.....she did make it to first base!

 She got to play catcher this game too!

 She made some good stops and throws back to the pitcher!

 Julia did such a good job this game she got the "Player of the Game" award!!  Way to go Julia!!!

Jan - April 2012

Julia and Ethan having fun feeding the ducks in January, yep they are wearing shorts! It was beautiful!

 Ethan lost his two front teeth! He was super happy to have them finally out!

Julia and Ethan at a local art park!

This is Julia's garden. This year we decided to have the kids be in charge of their own section of the garden. They got to choose what they planted. Julia chose a raspberry bush, parsley-for the swallowtail caterpillars and a pretty pink flowering perennial.







Ethan chose an everbearing strawberry and petunias. We will be protecting the berries from the birds this year because last year they ate all the berries just before we could pick them! Ethan was very disappointed.








Julia and Ethan have both had the honor of being chosen a Kiwanis Terrific Kid. That was a big achievement for both of them!

 Ethan and Julia have a very expressive art teacher whom they love! Below are the artworks that they made for the art show. Julia won 2 ribbons, 1st and 2nd place!

 

We went to Springfield to celebrate Easter this year. The children all had fun finding Easter Eggs all over the farm. Ethan had the most eggs as far as we could tell!

 

Julia has started softball this year and absolutely loves it. She is #20 and her team is called the Farmington Edge. She has great coaches and good girls on her team. This is the first time she was up to bat in her scrimmage.