Friday, January 29, 2010

Wii Sword Fighting


I originally just posted the two videos below with no description, but then decided since it's almost been another month since I blogged, I would add a little update.  We've obviously been enjoying our new Wii game we got for Christmas, Wii Sports Resort.  The boys' absolute favorite game is the sword fighting.  Caleb almost beats everyone every time.  Honestly, even when I try my hardest, I cannot beat him!  I don't know what his trick is.  You can see how much energy it gets out of them!  :-)

The rest of January has been fine, just trying to get back into the regular routine of everything after the holidays.  Ethan is about to turn 6 next week on Feb. 3rd!  It seems like since after Christmas, he has really matured a lot, and has been doing great with his behavior at school, which has definitely made things a little less stressful.  There for a while between Nov and Dec we were having quite a lot of "issues" with listening and following directions the first time with his teacher.  Let's hope that stage is over and we're probably onto another soon!  We're supposed to have a small birthday party for Ethan tomorrow, but they are currently predicting snow, so we may have to reschedule.  Here's hoping we can still have it this weekend though - maybe on Sunday!  Hopefully the next post will be of some birthday pics.

That's all for the update now.  Enjoy the Wii Videos below!


Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing
 

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Gingerbread Mansion





Uncle Mike decided he wanted to make a gingerbread house . . . it ended up being a gingerbread mansion!  Ethan was quite the architect along with Mike.  Here are the pics and the process that evolved into an awesome gingerbread house.  Good job Mike and Ethan!

 
 
 
 
 
 

Christmas Morning


A tree full of presents!



One of many Star Wars toys Ethan received



Caleb opening up a dinosaur that roars and moves - a huge hit for him!



It was fun having cousin Wendy share Christmas morning with us!

Christmas Eve


Playing with Papa Brisken's Christmas Train - a definite highlight for the boys every Christmas

 
Caleb smiling with the train

 
Papa Brisken & Caleb

 
Scott and his Mom, Sharon

 
Ethan excited about opening up a Lego Christmas present



Scott and I

Ethan's Class Christmas Party


I got to go to Ethan's class on the last day before Christmas break to share in his Class Christmas Party. We made gingerbread houses together first. Then they had a party full of yummy Christmas snacks. Then his teacher and teacher assistant opened all the gifts that the children had brought for them. It was a very nice morning!



Ethan with his teacher, Mrs. Holden.

Ethan with his teacher assistant, Mrs. Marlowe.

Ethan's kindergarten class - 25 kids

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Sesame Street Live

Since Caleb was one of the runners up in the grouchiest kid contest, we won tickets to a Sesame Street Live show. My Mom and Dad ended up taking Ethan and Caleb to it. It was something my mom had encouraged me to enter Caleb in, so I thought she should get to go with him. Here is a smiling Caleb in front of his famous grouchy picture. My Dad said some people recongnized him as one of the grouchy kids from the photo. I'm sure he loved the attention!


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