Things have been busy around here. Lucy and Sofie are loving school. They started a ballet class and are having so much fun being ballerinas. Emma is still crazy getting into everything and making us laugh and smile. Pete's plugging away with the school year and I'm still trying to get a college counseling business started.
Lucy is really into geography. She got a globe for her birthday and has memorized all the countries and their capitals. She loves learning about the world and wants to travel to France more than anything. We'll see if we can make that happen for her someday.
Sofie loves horses. She often pretends to be a horse and got a plethora of horse-related toys from Santa. She loves school and is working on her letters and starting to read.
Emma is into everything! She thinks she is a big kid and loves to climb up on the table, counters, couch - whatever is around. She is really talking a lot and her favorite thing to say is, "No! I don't want it!"
Here are some pics from Christmas through today. We celebrated Chinese New Year this year, which was really fun. Hopefully it will be a new a tradition.
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| Chinese New Year at Lan Su Garden. So fun! |
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| Getting ready for the lantern festival to begin. |
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| Dragon Dance! |
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| Sweet Emma at the park. |
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| Emma's gift from Santa. |
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| Third year of making gingerbread cookies at Auntie Katy's on Christmas Eve. |
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| My Dad got Christmas Vacation moose mugs for his birthday. He completed the effect with a dicky to look like Uncle Eddie. :) |
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| Sweet Christmas girls. |
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| They are getting so big. |
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| A moose mug toast. |
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| Santa brought lots of goodies for the girls. |
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| Sofie got a toy horse. |
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| Sweet Lucy and Sweet Sofie holding hands while riding the sky tram in downtown Portland. |
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| View from the sky tram - beautiful. |
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| A post-Christmas trip downtown. |
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| Emma in her frog hat - she loves this thing. |
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| Cute Lucy dressed up for a dance recital. |
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| Pete and I on a date to a Winterhawks game. |
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| Cheers. |
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| Silly girls. |
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| Lucy and Sofie started ballet and they LOVE IT! Cute little ballerinas! |
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| Sweet Sof in a cute outfit. |
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| Sweet Emma on the swings. |
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| We got to meet the new baby elephant, Lily, at the zoo. |
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| Another trip to Lan Su Garden. |
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| Homemade peanut butter cups. Yum! |
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| A trip to the Maritime Museum on a beautiful winter day. |
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| Emma being silly. |
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| My dad took me out to lunch and the view was gorgeous! |
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| The company was pretty spectacular too. :) |
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| Watching world music at the Children's Museum. |
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| Visiting my cousin Cami's horse, Ace. |
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| Swinging with butterfly wings. |
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| More Ace. |
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| It was Sofie's special day at school to present the number 5. |
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| She of course brought 5 horses. |
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| Mailing Valentines at school. |
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| Sofie's artwork for the school Art Show. |
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| Lucy's art work for the school Art Show. |
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| Lucy being Glenda the Good Witch on Mississippi Avenue. |
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| Sofie being Glenda the Good Witch on Mississippi Avenue. |
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| More Mississippi. |
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| Pete accidentally gave Sofie one of of the hot peppers on his Thai food. She handled it like a champ! |
Hope everyone is well!
