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Happy Birthday Evelyn & Nick

I love that Nickolas will still come downstairs and celebrate his birthday with all his little friends and his birthday buddy Evelyn. This year we celebrated Nick turning 18 and Evelyn 3. It was so cute when we lit the candles and tried to sing "happy birthday" to them, because when ever there was a pause in the song (eg. happy birthday to you... happy)that was when Evelyn would try to blow out the candles. So we ended up singing the song like this;

"happy birthday to you.. not yet, happy birthday to you..not yet, Happy birthday dear Evelyn and Nickolas.. not yet, happy birthday to you!!!" After we sang the song for Evelyn and she blow her candles it was nicks turn ..... that was a lot of candles for cupcakes!

Happy Birthday Evelyn and Nickolas!

Snow day!

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Merry Christmas 2011

The Christmas season has come so fast this year. I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas with their families this past weekend. I, for one, have truly treasured the down time with my family. I want to thank everyone for making this years daycare party a fun filled evening. Thanks for the wonderful food that everyone contributed and I hope you enjoyed the opportunity to get to know the parents of the children whom your child calls their friends. I would also like to express my gratitude for the wonderful and thoughtful gifts and encouraging words that you have given to me.... thank you! Having such great kids to love, nurture and help mold into thoughtful, caring and smart young people is such a privilege. Thank you for letting me part of their lives!

Inside day Marching band

This past Thursday was so terribly awful outside that we did a vote as to whether we should clean up all the toys and go play outside to play in the cold rain or stay inside and NOT clean up and have a musical marching band instead!

As you can see.... we chose the marching band option!
Mateo was the only one who DID want to go out. So he put on all his rain gear and went outside for about 2 minutes when he finally looked around and saw that he was alone outside in the cold wet backyard, he then decided the loud musical instruments was a much better choice!

Everyone took a turn to be the leader of our marching band and led the parade of sound down the hall, around the table and then back to the play room.

It was a great way to spend a wet cold rainy day!

Birthday Baby!

Happy First Birthday Rosie!

I am so glad we got to share the day with you!

Happy Halloween

This year we tried Grants Pumpkin field, not quite what I wanted, but we could not ask for a nicer day!

We had a great time walking up and down the rows of pumpkins looking for the biggest ones. Evelyn found the smallest pumpkin they had as soon as we got there and decided that i was the only one she wanted.
They also had a kid area with smaller kid size pumpkins on the grass with a few Halloween displays.

Chloes Jack-o-Lantern

Nathan loved to try to pick up every pumpkin.

Where as Drew didn't even really want to touch them.
Kai only wanted to try to climb them all

Halloween day is always fun on a daycare day... any excuse to play dress up ALL day!

Nicks Jack-O-Lantern

Glad everyone had a fun filled safe Halloween!