Santa and Nativity

Today, we went to see Santa and we saw a Christmas miracle. Sophie did not cry when she sat on his lap. She has cried the last two years.

Lillie and Sophie told him what they wanted for Christmas. After, we went to decorate bags and write a letter to Santa.
Later this afternoon, Lillie played an angel in the Nativity play. She played angel 2 and 3. She whispered in Joseph's ear and she appeared to the shepherds.

Earlier this week, I joined Lillie on her class field trip to the Delano Homestead at the Kalamazoo Nature Center. Most of the field trip was outside and it was only 5 degrees outside.Lillie got to grind grain, make candles, fleece wool, make gingerbread cookies. 

Happy Thanksgiving

Grandma and Grandpa came to visit for Thanksgiving.

We had a great week. We played games, watched Lillie at gymnastics, went shopping, went to see the movie "Frozen" and updated the mantel on the fireplace.

Happy Halloween

Sophie had her first Halloween Party at Preschool. Sophie is in the back row, in purple, as Sofia the first.

We played games at her school, 

made a trick or treat bag, and trunk or treated.

Later that afternoon, I went to Lillie's school for her class Halloween party. Lillie is in the front row, with the Hello Kitty hat on.

Lillie's class played games, 

ate snacks, and had a school parade. Lillie is between Sponge Bob and Iron Man.

Later that night, we went trick-or-treating in our neighborhood. Sophie told me "This is the best day ever."

Visit from Grandpa

Last week, Grandpa came to visit. He helped us carve our pumpkins.

He got to see Lillie at her gymnastics class. He also got to see Lillie and Sophie's schools.

On Tuesday, we trunk or treated at the Gilmore Car Museum and we rode a double decker bus.

On Wednesday, we visited the Bird Sanctuary and Dairy farm to watch the robots milk the cows.

It was a great week.

Sophie's New Earrings and Lillie Cheers for Gull Lake High School

Yesterday, was an exciting day for us. Sophie got her ears pierced. She picked out purple earrings.

She let out a quick cry after they did them, but I picked her up and she stopped. She didn't cry any tears. The pinch just scared her.

Later that night, we watch Lillie cheer at the Gull Lake High School football game. 

She is the one, on the right side of the picture below. She cheered for 15 minutes of the game.

The night before she had a practice to learn some of the cheers, jumps and stunts. Including this stunt below. It was a great experience for Lillie and we got to see Gull Lake play for the first time. Gull Lake unfortunately lost the game, but Lillie had a great time.

Lillie and her friends from Kellogg Elementary school. 2nd grader, Ella, Grace, Lillie, 2nd grader.

 Lillie and other Jack and Jill Preschool Friends. Lilyanna, Ashley, Lillie, Amanda, Rylee.

Lillie lost her first tooth

Since May, Lillie has had 2 permanent coming in behind her bottom baby teeth. The Dentist said that she would have the 2 baby teeth out between the 4th of July and Labor Day. He was wrong.
She finally lost her first one tonight. She was scared that it was going to hurt. I told her to go wiggle it in the mirror and watch her tooth go sideways. She wiggled it sideways and then practically fell out. I hope that the gift from the Tooth Fairy will motivate her to keep wiggling the other 4 teeth that are loose.

She is holding her baby tooth in the picture above. School picture day is tomorrow and it is going to be a cute picture.

Sophie's 1st day of Preschool

Sophie had a great first day of preschool. We took lots of great pictures.

Sophie and Beth.

Sophie and Brian.

 Sophie standing under the school sign.

Today was meet the teacher day, so the parents stayed close by while the students sang some songs, read a book, and played with some of the toys in the school. Since, it was a hot day, the kids got to go outside and play before we went home. Last week, Sophie met Lauren (blonde girl in pink) and they were excited to see each other and play together again. We are also friends with Wendell's family (boy next to Sophie). His dad is from Nebraska and we hatch chicks from the eggs from their farm.

Of course, Sophie would not let me forget that she got a cookie and balloon on her first day of school (like Lillie did last week). She picked out this balloon at Dollar Tree and she helped me decorate the cookie with sprinkles. She even spelled out her name for me to write it on the cookie.