The New Year brought a new change for Lydia. She started attending
Treasure Tree Acadamy preschool with Miss Anela, Miss Erica, and Miss
Stephanie. She goes two afternoons a week while Ethan is in
kindergarten. It works out well so I can do a little work from home.
I've been helping out some friends at Alegra Learning by writing a few
lesson plans for them. It's nice that the work is so flexible.
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| Lydia's first day at Treasure Tree Academy |
We
had a really good snow storm at the beginning of the year and Jason
helped Ethan and Lydia build this giant snowman. Unfortunately he only
lasted a few hours before we dramatically saw him pushed over by an
older kid right as we were pulling into the driveway. We were all
stunned and Lydia cried and cried. It's sad when people purpose destroy
something that is not theirs.
Lydia
also attended her first day in Primary at church as a new member of the
Sunbeam class. She has a big class with about 8-10 children her age.
Ethan
and Lydia playing with the phone and their toothbrushes. I just think
this picture captures them and their life at this stage.
Ethan
had a day off school so we met up with my friend Marilee who treated us
to a trip to the Butterfly Pavillion at Thanksgiving Point. The kids
had fun playing inside and seeing the butterflies and I had fun talking
to Marilee again.
One
day we went home to visit my Mom in West Jordan who was very sick the
first part of January. She was having major health problems and when the
doctors took a look they found a big mass of cancer. Miraculously,
after a lot of prayer and fasting, when the doctors went to remove the
mass they didn't find any cancer and my mom was able to recover
relatively quickly with the mass gone. Such a huge blessing for our
family!
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| I tried on the dress I made for Senior Prom and it still fit great 20 years later! |
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With
cold weather outside, these are some of the typical activities we would
do in the mornings. Ethan loves to build and create things. He also
worked hard on practicing the piano and reading so that he could earn
money for some Fuse Beads. Crafts beads that you arrange and then iron
together. He even went outside and sold rocks by the side of the road a
couple times to earn some extra money.
Ethan
celebrated his 100th day at school. He's doing well and has grown a lot
in reading and writing. He can skip count to 100 by 2's, 5,'s and 10's.
He's writing more sentences and he's reading on Level G which typical
of the middle of 1st grade.
Jason
and I celebrated by birthday by eating at Los Hermanos and seeing the
new Star Wars Movie in the theatre. It was such a fun date together and
it was really nice to spend some time alone together.
Sara
helped me celebrate my birthday by taking me out to lunch at Zupas, one
of my favorite restaurants. And that night we sang, ate cupcakes, and
opened presents.
Lydia
ended up getting a really bad cold or virus. It made it hard for her to
breath and she was coughing almost constantly. We took her to the
doctor's and they gave her a breathing treatment and sent us home with
an inhaler and other medicine to help her get better and sleep through
the night.
Ethan stacked every picture book in the house into a big pile and I think we counted somewhere around 150.
Ethan
has loved playing with his Hot Wheels track from Christmas and has
gotten very creative about how and where he sets up his tracks!
