Christmas 2007

Caroline and Chase are so lucky to have so many people who love and care about them, they have had a fantastic Christmas so far. We still have one more "Christmas" to attend to when we fly to Chicago tomorrow to see Troycha Gail and JaJa Miska and the other cousins, they are so excited. Here is a slide show of the pictures from our Holiday 2007:

Christmas picture bloopers

In my quest to get a great picture of the kids for my Christmas cards, we had plenty of bloopers, here are two of them: by the way, I never did get the perfect picture, do you know how hard it is to get two kids to look at the camera and smile at the same time??? It's impossible!!!



Happy Holidays,
Jane

Kindergarten is dangerous!

Yesterday, when I went to pick Caroline up from school, her teacher came walking out holding Caroline's hand, I knew immediately that something was wrong. The teacher told me that there is a boy in Caroline's class that has a "crush" on her and is constantly pestering her and sometimes Caroline just does not want to play with him. This boy has been reprimanded by the teacher on several occasions to stop bothering Caroline and also the boy's mother has been talked to about the situation; I had no idea this was going on. Well yesterday, this boy took it a step further and when Caroline indicated to him she did not want to play with him, he took Caroline's hand and bit her on the back of her hand!! He didn't break the skin, but left a nasty bite mark and bruise! The boy was pulled out of class, his parents were called and he was suspended for the rest of the day! I had no idea they suspended kindergarten kids. Caroline had to go to the nurses office and they iced it down and she was okay, but pretty upset. When we got in the car to come home, the first thing she said about the incident was that this boy is naughty and Santa will NOT (said emphatically) be coming to his house! My constant naughty and nice conversations are paying off! She is fine today and the kid is back in school, but he wouldn't even look at me when I dropped Caroline off this morning.

Jane

Santa's Coming!

I am milking this Santa business for all it's worth! The naughty and nice thing is the best thing ever invented! Chase and Caroline are totally buying into it. They are having so much fun getting ready for the "big guys" arrival. It looks like Santa threw up in my house; we have six trees up, there is Christmas stuff everywhere including the bathroom, just in case Santa has to peesit! Caroline and Chase have their very own tree that they decorated themselves; this was to preserve the family tree in the living room from being messed with. It finally feels like Christmas with the weather, the 80 degrees days are gone and it is now sweater weather. Here's a couple of pictures of the kids from the last week . Caroline is getting over a nasty cold sore so we are holding off taking Christmas pictures until later this week.



Our Family Tree

The kid's tree, please note the chinese takeout menu that Chase found on the front door that he made into an ornament!