This and That

Addison and Bryn are in official (as in, not taught by one of their parents) piano lessons now. Sister Smith is a great teacher and loves them so much. They did a great job at their Christmas recital and were glad that Grandpa got to come to it!

We started our New Year's Eve celebration a day early with a trip to the ice cream store from Grandma and Grandpa. What a treat!

New Year's Eve with the Aarons!

In the words of his father, "When you've got big sisters, you want to be like big sisters."

The most wildly popular and successful preschool ever known in the land! We turned Leah's room into a blizzard!

A series of encouraging texts we sent to Daddy in the middle of the day.

That's right - mouth wide open = encouragement.

Addison and Asa blasting off to the moon in their secret hideout. We'll miss this house! (P.S. our house is under contract!!!!)

Our silly cat. She loves to curl up in our folded stroller.

Asa felt the need to try and one-up Leah's December, medically speaking. So he knocked his breakfast chair, that he was strapped into, over and busted his chin open on New Year's Eve. His mother was upstairs on facebook at the time, thank you for asking. He was very brave and his siblings very supportive as we rushed to the doctor and got him stitched up, a famous first for our offspring.

Leah countered a few days later by swallowing a penny at 8:30 p.m. while playing in her bed. Nate and I were mid-meeting with a realtor, so I excused myself and Leah and I ran over to the ER, where we were relieved to find it in her stomach. If these kids keep it up Nate's going to have to get a second job!