Hana Turns 2

 Hana enjoyed opening her presents.  Reach Hana reach!

 She insisted on immediately donning the clothes, right over her pajamas, layer upon layer.

 The next day friends and family from near and far came to celebrate with her.  These girls played doctor.

 There was cake.

 Big brother and his best bud assisted in the blowing out of the candles.

 And then there was reading.

 The next morning everyone needed some milk and some tongue exercises.

Thanks for coming!
(And sorry for the delay in posting.  DadKV has been too busy building shoe racks, disposing of cardboard, and assembling Ikea furniture to post and I have, for obvious reasons, been put off by the new blog format.)

New House!

 First, some photos of Leigh enjoying her birthday song.

 

Swarming tee-ball defense.

 

  Crazy squirrel outside our windows this morning.

Moving Day

The house isn't all done, yet, but we're moving in anyway!

 

Gratuitous tot pics.

April 29th

 

Tee Ball

Danny's first day of tee-ball.  The last time he was in an A's outfit he was much smaller.

 Captain Serious.

 

 

 

The team is 37.5% girls.

 

Happy Birthday Leigh

With the help of two sibling life-coaches, Leigh is doing more than just reading, like climbing and sliding.

 

 

 

 Life coaches helping with some new birthday games.

 

Leigh can f-ing Read

Leigh smashed her face two nights ago, loosening up a tooth and making her look like a plastic surgery patient after a lip plumping injection gone bad. Susannah took her to the dentist yesterday and Leigh started reading some books she had never seen before. We had assumed she was just repeating memorized books to herself when she snuck into Danny's room to read books by herself.

Here she is, reading Danny's word ring. His kindergarten teacher tells us these are first grade words that he is working on "sight recognition" of. Leigh has them down, without ever practicing a word ring before. She is wearing my safety glasses just because she can.


Needless to say, this development made us quite happy.