Morning Glory Apple Orchard

Christian's class took a field trip to the apple orchard. It was a learning experience for me too b/c I've never been to one. He seems to have stared to make some friends in his class and it was fun to watch him interact with them. He is on the last row on the right...not sure why he's holding his nose like that.

Anna Kate and Christian

Farmer Ben (who referred to himself in the third person the entire time we were there) showing the kids the special ladder they use to get the apples from the trees

In the classroom area

Miss Kristin made an apple slinky:) and then she cut in half for each child to have a sample of an apple smile

Disney on Ice w/ the Greens

We decided to make it a family double date and took the kids to see the newest Disney on Ice: Celebrations. It goes around the world showing different things people celebrate. We visited South America for a Carnival, China for the Cherry Blossom Festival, Hawaii for a Luau (complete with fire circle on the ice!) and some old fashioned American holidays too. We tried for a family pic, but couldn't get both ours to look at the camera...big surprise. I think the Green family looks cute in theirs. This was an early b-day present for Caroline who is turning 5 this week!!

Mickey started off the show with his Fantasia outfit and brooms. We were a tad late and missed a little, but Christian still loved it. He plans on dressing like this for Halloween.

Lots of the villains paid a visit during the Halloween portion...the costumes were very cool

Here's who Baylor will look like at Halloween

Mary Ann probably won't appreciate this one, but I love her reaction as Christian is explaining something to her:)
Caitlyn and Caroline

For the Valentines portion of the show, Minnie wished she could be a beautiful princess and find her prince charming. Her fairy godmother granted her wish and all the princess came to visit w/ their own prince to show Minnie what to look for.

Above is Aladin and Jasmin...Belle and her prince are below

All the princes and princess'

And who would have guessed that Mickey would turn out to be her prince charming?!?!

New Orleans...Mardi Gras (the new Princess and the Frog movie is based here too)

The Big Finale

Golf Clinic

Christian says 'any game with a ball is a sport and Golf is my sport' Anytime we have asked him if he wanted to play soccer, baseball or any team sport the answer has always been no. He likes the individual kinda thing.

He spent every afternoon this week at a golf clinic to learn a little more. He did well for his first time out even though he doesn't think he did. We are trying to teach him that it takes time and practice to do well at something. In his perfectionist mind if you don't do well the first time than all is lost...we'll get there buddy:)

It was 'watch & take pictures day' at dance this week. The above picture is the best group shot they would give me. Those girls all have so much fun.

This was during free dance

lining up to listen to Ms. Rachel

Stretching is very important:)

The little girl that could...

Once there was a little girl who always said "I can't" or "I don't want to" whenever anyone asked her to try and use the potty. Her Mommy and Daddy tried to give her treats, told her all her friends were going potty, promised toys, outings, anything to get her to try and her answer was always "I don't want (fill in the blank of offered thing)" Many tears and fits would follow anytime they tried to make the little girl potty, so they finally stopped. The little girls parents were very frustrated.
The family was very busy while moving to a new house and starting school so they left the potty issue alone for awhile. They did mention that this new potty in the new house would be great for her to learn on...
Then one Saturday, the little girl walked downstairs without her diaper. The mommy asked where it was and the little girl said she was tired of wearing her diaper. Her mommy tried to not get too excited, but asked if she wanted to go on the potty..."NO" came the little girls response. Her mommy explained to her once again that if she didn't wear diapers she had to use the potty. They both decided to put her diaper back on, but the mommy and daddy decided the next day they would begin all out trying to train the little girl to use the potty.
She wasn't too thrilled with the idea, but at least tried to sit. She never did pee pee in the potty that day, but they were not going to give up. The next day the little girl tried to potty every time a special timer, her mommy set, rang. SHE WENT PEE PEE and cried. Her mommy felt bad, but knew she had to press on. The little girl went pee pee again and laughed:) She started using the potty EVERY TIME she needed to (w/ no accidents)!!! Her Mommy and Daddy were so proud of her, but felt like this proved just how stubborn their little girl could be.
Here is the beautiful girl...she doesn't wear diapers anymore. Her family and friends are very proud of her, how about you?

Ballerina

Is this not one of the cutest little dancers you have EVER seen? So maybe I'm a little biased, but she and her little friends below were all so sweet at their first dance class. What is even better for mommy and daddy is that it is FREE!!! It is part of a ministry at a local church.

Caroline, Baylor, Macy, Faith and Avery

Our New Home

We have waited a long time for this baby to be finished!! We have officially lived in it for two weeks now and are slowly getting things where we want them. Most of the first week here was spent getting more stuff from KayKay's house and dealing with Christian having the flu. Below you'll see a close-up of our entry way...one of the big selling points of this plan.

My beautiful little alcove...I have been waiting for this part a long time. See, their bags and coats have just the right spot to go:)

The hallway leading to the laundry room, alcove and garage

These letters are over the master bath door--they used to be silver until Jeff found this cool brown hammered spray paint

Our bathroom

If you look on the counter you'll see our initials (they were silver too)

Playroom before

Playroom after

office is still a major work in progress

Living room...still in progress

Kitchen...boxes are gone, but we are still getting there

I bought these yesterday to display in my china cabinent

Dining room

Christian's room before

Christian's room after

He's so happy to have his bunk beds back

I love how his space wall turned out

Baylor's room before

Baylor's room after

Her reading chair

still a bit of (you guessed it) a work in progress

There are other rooms that you are not allowed to see yet. Our bedroom needs some major help, but I wanted to get the kids rooms done first. I just got our bathroom together yesterday. I still need curtains for Baylor's room and we are making cornice boards for the kitchen and dining room. We have NO CLUE what to do with the living room and that is one of the first places you see, Oh well. Hope you enjoyed the mini tour