Year of the Dragon

So, Gabe and Mya are studying ancient China at their tutorial; very conveniently at the same time as the celebration of the Chinese New Year. They had to take paper bag vests to school on Monday for the dance of the dragon each vest decorated as a piece of the dragon's body. Here's our attempt:

(You'll be happy to know that Gabe got a haircut the next day. His hair was looking slightly shaggy!)

I didn't get to see their dance, but they had a good time so we'll count it a success.

Tuesday was a beautiful day and the kids spent most of the afternoon outside which resulted in this at about 4:00. This is how Eden always sleeps - blanket in mouth and cup in hand. So funny what they get attached too.

5 Months

From the past week...

The girls strung bead necklaces on Sunday night. They decided to be very silly once they had them completed.

Love how Laney sucks her fingers to go to sleep.

Miss Inspector Gadget

Another sleeping picture, this time with Daddy holding her

Laughing Laney

Nae took this video tonight while he was giving Laney and Eden a bath.

Roll over

(There's always a sibling nearby to provide Laney with plenty of reading material. Eden in particular will set the books up so carefully so that Laney can "read" them.)

Purple

Alena: "Hey, Momma, me, Eden and Laney all have purple on. You'd better take a picture!"

Loved this one of these two (Alena had her eyes closed), and is Laney not funny. She's so tiny and her whole face is just hair and eyes.

We had lots of other pictures along these lines:

All clean!

January 5

I've seen on several blogs the idea to take a group picture on the same day of every month. I'm going to give it a go. Hopefully we'll get some better shots than this one, even though Laney's look cracks me up in this picture.

A picture of our 5 kiddos on the 5th of each month.

A Missing Tooth

Mya finally lost her first tooth while we were at my parents. It had been loose for a while, but once the new one started growing behind it she let Grandmama pull the baby one out.

Love those fingers

It seems the paci is being replaced.

1-1-12

I'm barely getting this one on here in time (blame it on being in the car all day.) Happy First day of 2012!