Long time no see

Snowden's cake and best friend Tanner.

Here's what you missed: Snowden's birthday. 5 years old.

Sorry for the lenghty absence. Since I am becoming an expert tweeter (if I visualize it it will happen) I thought I should keep this updated too. Even though the reason I started it was to keep my Dad updated on the kids. Then I found out he had no clue it was here ( :) funny) and I sort of lost interest. Now my goal is to figure out how to print it out, like a diary. If I can do that, then it would be worth updating. My private thoughts for the day.

Snowden Learns to Read

Snowden surprised me early this month with his ability to READ! I had no idea- one day he just read one of Katie's flashcards to me. The first official word: CAN. (I love that "Can" was his first word. Of course I am assuming he was thinking of the verb form not the noun.) Since then he has been reading everything in sight. Last night (12/21/09) he read 5 of the first "Hooked on Phonics" books.

The Nutcracker

Matching outfits from Katie's birthday celebration- how cute they were. We had a really special night out with Carly and Jennifer when they invited us to the Nutcracker at Chrysler Hall. The girls took lots of pictures of each other and us, did a great job staying focused during the performance, and then dissolved into crazy silliness as we got ice cream later on. The perfect evening!

Decorating the tree

School Club Roundup Winners

This is my AM class and PM class receiving their certificates from Mr. Siff from the k4amg club for their participation in the October international Ham Radio event "School Club Roundup." They made contacts with almost all the United States and several foreign countries that week. How cool is that to talk to Ukraine, England, Italy, France and Switzerland all in a week?

In a Dark Dark Room...

Katie and Snowden LOVED this scary book from the library. She read it to him twice one day.

First Bloody Nose

Here is proof of Snowden's first bloody nose (see the blood splatters on his Tae Kwon Do jacket.) It happened at the Tae Kwon do class- but it wasn't during an intense sparing match (as I'm sure the story will be told as he gets older) It happened when his friend tripped him going into the room.