Gabby's Dance Recital

Last week was Gabby's retical from school. She was super cute dancing away on stage. Bella was a great supporter even though the program was 3 hours. Gabby was the 5th dance and the last dance, so we sat through 25 dances inbetween. All the kids were cute but it was a good thing Uncle Ryan watched J.

 

Losing Teeth

Gabby lost her first tooth on the 6th of December. It had been loose for awhile, but when I picked her up from school she had really wiggled it a lot that day. She asked if I could pull it and it popped right out. She was so excited that she was finally able to use the princess tooth fairy pillow Uncle Ryan had found that Bella had gotten to use 8 times already. She woke up to find $5!

The day before Christmas Eve we were at some friends house. Gabby had wiggled the 2nd tooth and was ready for it to be pulled. Kendall also had a loose tooth but we couldn't convince her to let us pull hers out. Gabby let me pull it out again, but she wanted to wait to put it under her pillow until the following night. She wanted the Tooth Fairy and Santa to come in the same night. Daddy said, "oh, then they can carpool".

Our Growing Man

Our little man just keeps growing. He is starting to put two words together...his favorite sayings right are "what's that", "over there", and "right there". He can answer what noise most animals make. He loves his sisters and his dadd-dee...but he calls both girls "Bella"...I'm not sure Gabby is a big fan of him not saying her name. He keeps trying to put his football in the tree as an ornament. He is so sweet...he doesn't like to see his sisters upset. When they are in time out he goes over and puts his hands on their shoulder or sit down and lean on them. He is just so precious. 

 

Putting up the tree

This weekend we put up the tree. The kids had so much fun going through their ornaments. Jeremiah was funny trying to find things to put on the tree. He kept trying to add his plastic toy balls and they would fall through the branches. Later that night I found a plastic monkey cup that he finally got on there to stay. All the ornaments are on the top 2/3 but his cup on the only one on the bottom.

 

USA Women's Soccer vs. Ireland

Joel got tickets for the girls to go to the US Women's Soccer Team Fan Tour. The girls loved it. It was amazing watching the US Team.

 Hope Solo played about 20 minutes

Finishing up fall soccer

We finished up the soccer season of the Blue Mermaids and the Yellow Tigers. Gabby ended her last few games with some goals. She kept getting better and better. Bella got really intense by the end of the season. The 2nd to the last game Bella scored 7 goals. She was on fire. The last game was a tough team and she was so intense. She definitely has Joel and my competitive spirit.

 

 

 

Bella's Intense Game Face

 

  



Thanksgiving in Pinetop

We headed up to Pinetop for Thanksgiving. The weather was perfect and in the 60s. The girls had a blast finding pinecones and playing outside. We did puzzles and played card games. Bella taught us the game trash and we played several times a day. The girls made pumpkin cakes as our dessert.

 J with his football.

Showing Papa how to be the spider monkey in Panda Bear Panda Bear.

Joel made a fire one night to make s'mores.

The girls made Batgirl outfits out of tissue paper.