Emory

Now it's Emory's turn for a catch-up post. She has adjusted well to living in Fort Worth and made some really sweet friends. She is going to day school at our church two days a week and taking a class at The Little Gym. Several of the children that are in these classes she also knows from the other, or from church or from being the sibling of one of Trinity's school friends, so she is getting to know some of the children through multiple avenues. She has a serious crush on one of her Little Gym teachers and it's adorable! She always sits or stands as close to him as humanly possible, even if that means she's literally in his lap! He is extremely sweet and wonderful with the kids, at least she has good taste:)

Emory is STILL obsessed with clothes, shoes, makeup, purses...all the girly girl stuff. She changes clothes at least five times a day for one reason or another. I will do as much laundry for her as I do for the rest of the family combined! We're working on putting things back in their clean places instead of the hamper if they're not dirty...not there yet though:)

Emory has always been the sweetest and most snugly of my girls. On her first day of school when I went to pick her up she gave one of her teachers a giant hug and her teacher said, "She has got to be the most yummy child I've ever had!" I agree...she's wonderful! Don't get me wrong though, she does have her challenging times, but if she didn't then I would worry. We've decided that she's going to be a night owl...she stays awake (laying in her bed) half the night and still gets up at the crack of dawn! It's amazing, she was such a great sleeper as a baby and now she doesn't sleep at all!

She is doing so well with learning her letters and their sounds, and she is starting to want to learn how to spell things and write her letters.

I can't believe she's almost 4! Then again there's times I forget she's not already a teenager:)

Oh, and don't worry, she still has her daddy's dry wit.

sunset

As I was making dinner the other night I noticed the incredible colors of the sky. I couldn't help but take some pictures.

GOD BLESS TEXAS!

Raking leaves

We are so excited to have huge, gorgeous trees at our new house, just like we did at our old house! Of course you know what trees mean this time of year...leaves. Lots and lots of leaves! Greg and the girls decided they would rake them up last weekend. Actually Greg wanted to rake and bag, the girls wanted to rake in a pile and jump into the piles. They all got their way and I got some cute pictures.

Trinity...

We have been so busy lately and I'm really far behind on posts. I've started several that I haven't had (or taken) time to go back and finish, but thought I would take a few minutes to update on the girls. I think I only have time for one today, so I'm gonna start with Trinity.



Trinity is really enjoying kindergarten at her new school! She's made a couple of good friends in her class and absolutely refuses to leave for the day without giving hugs and saying bye multiple times. There is one little boy she talks about all the time and his parents said she gave him a picture of a heart...go figure! There is another little boy that chases Trinity and two of her friends around the playground every day trying to kiss them. She says she won't let him...so that's promising! We're trying to convince her that boys have cooties...hopefully she'll buy it for at least another couple of years!



She has so many incredible opportunities at her school that most kindergartners aren't given and we are so grateful! She gets to go to either art or music every day (they alternate each week) and they are learning a lot in each class! She says her favorite part about school is art class and she likes art so much because they are learning HOW to draw! She has learned how to portray wind and so much more! They are learning about many artists and the history behind art...hello, they're in kindergarten! Every month they focus on a different artist and she has taught me so much about the two they've talked about so far. I LOVE IT! When she brings her depiction of Starry Night home with her I will try to get it scanned and post it for you.



She does miss her old school and her old friends, but is starting to question the move a little less every day. She did ask if we could put her back in private school so she can learn about God and Jesus while they're at school. I guess that's a pretty compelling argument for a 6 year old, but the answer was still no.

She brought home her report card from the second six weeks yesterday and each topic was marked as mastered except one and that was reading a short story. She is doing so well! The curriculum is different at this school than what she had last year, so she is not bored by having to repeat all the same activities. We have a parent-teacher conference scheduled for January and we plan on discussing the option of being GT tested (gifted and talented) at the recommendation of several folks. We'll see what her teacher's perspective on that is.



Trinity LOVES her gymnastics class! She looks forward to it all week! She practices every chance she gets! She has practically turned our house into a gym!

Sweet and Sassy

Trinity's birthday was three months ago, but we decided to hold off on having a "friend party" until she knew some of the girls around here a little bit better. We recently decided if we don't get it done now it's never gonna get done, so we sat down to talk about it. Trinity decided she wanted to have her party at a place called Sweet and Sassy, so we (and by "we" I mean "I") sat to planning. She decided she wanted to invite all the girls from her class, a couple from church and our across the street neighbors...we required her to invite her sisters :)

The girls had a BLAST! They got to put on dress-up clothes, get their hair and nails fixed, a dab of make-up, then they danced their hearts out! They each "walked the red carpet" and received awards, then we all at pizza and cake! AWESOME PARTY!

Greg was our party photographer and took several hundred great pictures of the girls, I'm going to try my best to keep this post short:)

Emory getting all glammed up

This is ADDISON! I seriously didn't recognize her when I first saw her! Check out the wig...too funny!

Come on ride the train...

Trinity and Addison accepting their awards.

All the girls

Trinity blowing out the candles on her cake

School Carnival

Okay, so I'm a little behind with my blogging...

One of the big reasons we made the move to Fort Worth was because the schools here are wonderful. We are blessed to be in the district for one of the two top elementary schools in FWISD and one of the reasons they are so great is they keep the families involved. Like a lot of schools do, her school had a carnival in October. This was wonderful! There were so many people there and so many things to do we ran out of time before even getting through half of them! I only managed to snap a few pictures, but they are pretty cute, so I wanted to share...

All three of the girls purchased angel halos...if you look really closely you can still see their horns sticking out from under their hair:)

Addison was incredibly proud of her tattoo! Her daddy picked out a butterfly.

This was the beginning of her "posing" for pictures. Here she is saying, "cheeeeeeeeeeee".

I have loved my first few months as a parent in this school and am really looking forward to all the awesome experiences we have to come!

Silly Faces

One morning, a couple of months ago, Emory got herself ready for school and Greg thought she looked so precious he wanted to take a picture of her. In our house you don't just get to take one picture of one kid...you spend half an hour snapping shots of crazy poses. This is a glimpse inside such an event...

Greg was reading to Addison when the other two decided he should wear the crown that belongs to their Sleeping Beauty build-a-bear outfit. He was kind enough to keep it on for the evening. The girls sure did think it was hysterical! I'm fairly certain they thought he didn't know it was there:) The innocence of children is so amazing! It warms my heart and brings a smile to my face.

Addison is a little confused as to where the apporpriate places to color with markers might be. You see, her sisters were in the back of their aunts car one day and decided it would be funny if they colored all over themselves with PERMANENT marker. Addison was apparently just staring in awe. Ever since then she's been a bit confused...can you tell?

Of course when I'm giggling (not so under my breath) and snapping pictures of her I'm fairly certain I'm not doing a much better job of being a role model than her sisters were. Oh well...she'll figure it out eventually:)

Go Mean Green!

Several weeks ago was the Mean Green homecoming game. We packed up our "Family Utility Vehicle" and headed north for the day (and by day I mean the ENTIRE DAY...14ish hours!!!) Here are photos of just a few memories from that day:

Wells Fargo Wagon in the parade

Trinity flashing her Scrappy Claw in hopes of receiving more candy

Once Emory realized the connection she frequently flashed the claw.

Addison was so adorable the people were leaving the parade to share candy with her!

The father of a NT freshman converted this 18 wheeler into an RV and a pretty comfy one at that! They are a very sweet couple, they even let our girls use their restroom instead of the port-a-potty!

SCRAPPY!!!!!