D Day!

Tomorrow our family is getting juuust a little bit bigger! 

Meet Rebecca, a 2 year old springer spaniel who was rescued from a puppy mill:

She is shy and needs lots of love, but apparently we're up for the challenge! :-)

Amelia's First Report Card

Amelia came home with her first report card today! Her teacher wrote that she's doing "exceptionally well" with literacy, has met the literacy goals for pre-k and is working on sight words, creative spelling and writing more independently.  She is "always the first to raise her hand in group discussions and always has an intelligent answer." That "like in literacy, she is mastering more and more goals in mathematics each day" and is doing basic addition and subtraction and seems to "really enjoy" problem solving. That she has mastered her social emotional skills, is excellent with using words to express her feeling and solve conflicts, and that she "treats all adults with great respect and is a joy to have in class."

Awwwww way to go Amelia!!

OK, So I Only Decorated What I Could Reach...

Sue me. 

Football Coma...

Not sure if the football game was THAT boring to them, or if they played too hard this afternoon ;-)

Who Says You Can't Get In The Christmas Spirit When It's Warm Out?

Looks Like Our Elf Found Us In Charlotte!

A Day Of Christmas Decorating

We put the tree up this morning (which by the way looks very small now that we have a living room with cathedral ceilings!) and put together the dough to bake "dog dirt in the snow" cookies, with the help of the Kaplans. 

This afternoon we got to work decorating the porch, which is still a work in progress! 

Here are some pictures: