Happy Holidays

Holidays are fast appoaching and the freezing rain is here! We had pictures done they are all fantastic so I used 4 of them to create the Christmas card in our header.

We wish all our friends and family near and far happy holidays and a joyous New Year!

I will try to scan in a few more to post later.

We found out this week that Kole tends to have Asthma symptoms when he has a virus. It is triggered with a virus or cold air or strong odors. So now I have inhalers for all three kids! What a year!

We've had many ups and downs this year, but thank goodness the ups out do the downs.

Kole has started really enjoying his lie with us. You can just tell that something has finally clicked with him. Or maybe it is just that Christmas is coming and he wants presents! We are not having to redirect him as much and he seems like he is growing up. He spilled water by accident this morning and he went and got a towel and cleaned it up himself. He even told me about it instead of hiding the fact that an accident happened. He also wants to help with everything and I am more than willing to have him do it. We will see how he does picking up his toys in him room so we can vacuum the floors. He has also started talking about last year and how things were going for him. He is also referring to his old mommy and daddy in China as his foster mom and dad.

The girls are doing great. Kaci has her first piano recital on Monday and Kali auditioned for solos in the Christmas concert and earned the right to play a solo during the concert on the 18th on clarinet. Kali is also doing a duet and solo for competition early next year.

Kali starts volleyball soon, Kaci will be starting basketball season soon and Kole is going to try basketball to see if it something he might like and then in the spring it will be either football or baseball. We will wait and see what he thinks then.

Vivian is having a lot of fun with friends and school. She will be doing a duet on flute in competition and a piano solo and singing solo. This weekend I am taking her and another exchange student from France to the mall for Christmas shopping. While they are on their own, I am taking my three to a store where they can shop too.

That's it for now!