Terrific Tessa

Tessa came home with some fantastic grades this past grading period and apparently her teachers noticed her awesomeness.

They threw every award they had at her except for 'most improved' - but how does one improve on excellence? Don't worry, she will stay humble, Ryan and I plan to remind her that she only has the second highest grades in class. Lazy.

Milestone

I tried to pick up Alana the other day and I couldn't! She was actually too heavy.

Looking at the picture you may wonder how I was so wimpy, but I assure you, she was heavy.

Ripening for Destruction (?)

We have a tomato plant that has little tiny green tomatoes on it. Peter looked at them and said asked when we take them off. I told him we have to wait until they are red and yummy. He wanted to know why we don't take them off now. I said they have to stay with their momma plant until they get big enough for us to eat. "Just like you," I said, "You stay with me until you are grown up then someone eats you, right?" He said, "No, nobody eats me!" "Then what happens?" I said. "Maybe somebody eats you?" says he. "-No, probably that doesn't happen either." We will figure it out eventually, I hope.

It's beginning to look a lot...

We decorated the Christmas tree last night, each kid got to go up and hang their own ornaments. It was pretty exciting.

We looked at the tree with our glasses that make the tree look nifty. They also make us look super cool. Hooray for Christmas!!