Early Christmas

We always celebrate X-Mas early at our house since we normally travel to Nina and Grandpa's for the Holidays, so here are some pics of this past weekend!  The kids exchanged gifts they got for each other and they got to open their stocking gifts!

X7 is 7 Years Old Today!

Happy Birthday X7!

This year X7 did not want a normal b-day cake, he wanted a "cotton candy mini cupcakes" cake! 

It was so good!

Now he has his own DS, no longer needs to borrow it from his sister!

Of course Legos, Legos and more Legos!

Tonight we are all going out for ice cream in honor of his birthday!

Our Time at Roxbury

It was that time of the year again, Roxbury time! We had a great time, even though it rained... a lot!
I truly miss the sense of community we have while we are there!

 See you next year Roxbury!

Ballet Recital

Today was A9's rehearsal for her ballet recital tomorrow. We are not allowed to take any pics or video during the performance tomorrow but we can during the rehearsal...

Here's a few pics of our morning.... we were there from 9am to 1pm... It was girlie heaven!!

Happy 9th Birthday A!

Today is A_9's birthday. She is 9 years old!!
Here is her Hello Kitty cake, the thing is I forgot to order her a cake, I bought one already made and just bought the tops separately... she loved it so no harm done!
She had a little party with her friends, what she really wants is to go to Chuck E. Cheese for her birthday, we will be taking her today!!
Happy Birthday!

Another Tooth Bites the Dust

I think the tooth faerie might give him some money this time around!

Snow Day and No Tooth

It is snowing outside, it's started around noon and it's still going. Nothing heavy but it is staying...I had no idea were supposed to be getting snow today....We are going to the movies tonight with our small group, we are going to see Narnia!!! I hope it will stop snowing by then...

In other news, my son X6 has lost another tooth!It happened last night right before Clubs. We already had his tooth fairy gift at hand... we knew it was only a matter of time before the tooth finally came out.Now the tooth right beside it is loose as well...

Parents Day at Ballet

A8 has been taking ballet lessons for the last few months, today was parents day! I was not able to make it but Dh was there and he took lots of pics and videos of the warm ups and the performance! Enjoy!!


Here's a few video clips of the night!

All Hallows Eve Pics!

I finally moved all of the Halloween pics to my computer!! So here they are!!!

Cleopatra

Toothless

At light the night at our Church.

Hot chocolate and cookies!

The Youth group did a skit for light the night!

We had a great time that night, the weather was perfect, although it did get a bit breezy the later it got. The kids stayed at the church most of the time and it showed in their candy bags. They had enough candy for two days only... usually we have Halloween candy all winter.. ha ha!!

Happy Birthday X6

This weekend was X6's birthday party, his actual birthday was on Monday! Here's a few pics of the party and the gifts he got!

How to train your dragon cake!!

Kids eating cake and ice cream!

Toothless!!!

Legos!!!

My baby is not a baby anymore.... sigh.

A Week of Music School

This week I signed A8 up for this Rhythm movement class at CVSM, the same place she takes piano lessons. She gets to go with her friend and her friends Mom will be taking her to class every morning and dropping her off at noon. The class is 3 hours, 9 AM to 12 PM, for the whole week! Yes, it does count towards school! By the time we start normal school in August we will have 11 days of school in the bag!!

We long decided, Dh and I, that we were going to try and limit the kids' activities to one per kid. However, since X5 is not involved in anything right now we are going to sign A8 up for Ballet this Fall. It starts right after Labor day and goes till May. It is an hour class once a week, and there is a recital at the end of May.

As for X5, we are waiting till he is a bit older to sign him up for either soccer or football.. although I'm hoping for soccer!

At the end of this week we are taking a field trip to the Bronx zoo with Grandma! X5 will be staying with Daddy this weekend. Dh is going to plan something for the two of them to do!

Next week we start packing for Roxbury! We need to find somebody to take care of our dogs....

New and Improved Bedroom

Last week my daughter and I had a long talk about her room. No matter how many times she cleans her room it always looked messy. Sometimes it was so bad(after playing with her little friends) that she had no idea where to start.

She had no room and too much stuff... we decided to do something about it. After praying about it for two days, yes you read right, we prayed about this!!! So after praying it finally came to us.. well to me.. I stripped her room of everything, EVERYTHING but her bed, desk and dresser. Nothing on the wall, nothing in her closet.

I left it like that for a couple of hours just so she could see how much better it looked empty than with all her stuff. Then we began the process of determining what would stay and what had to go.

She did a great job of letting alot of things go. I think she was a little worried that all her stuff would be gone but we were able to keep a lot, we just need a new way to store it.

We got rid of two pieces of furniture, her bookcase and her little drawer. We put her books in a light green crate, just like her brother has in his room. We got rid of some little stuff she had in her little drawers and we moved things around in her closet.

Since I got rid of all the stuff she had on the walls I needed to figure out what was going to replace them... we went to Target over the weekend and she picked the perfect thing!

Here are a few pics of how her room looks now!!

She picked dots, they look great on her wall!

I had to move her dresser a little and there's her crate with all her books. I will be moving her peg a little higher and to the right.

As a reward we bought her a new quilt set from Target, no more ballerinas!!

I moved her phone next to her desk and got her a small bulletin board.

This is a French memo board and it will be going above her headboard, we ordered it online because Target didn't have it in purple. We should be getting it this week!

Her room is much more manageable now, it doesn't look as crowded and the new quilt looks perfect in her pink room!