Gym recital 2012

 Kyra and Myles are in the same gymnastics class with a bunch of other girls and guys their age.  This year they did a great job at their recital with lights on the big stage.

 Their class showed off their bridges, cartwheels, round offs, dive rolls, and different jumps.  Kyra had a special part where she ran across the stage then did a round off into a tuck jump and the rest of the class cheered:).  Each gymnast got a turn on stage by themselves, showing oft their tricks.  Kyra and Myles both whipped out great one handed cartwheels!

 We are so grateful for a Christian gym where the kids have great teachers, learn a lot, and have tons of fun!

Sophyisms

 Sophy is quickly becoming a little ham!  She has no shortage of knock-knock jokes with no punch line, lots of silly faces and voices, and knows how to make our family laugh!

 When asked, "Is your name Sophy?"  She responds, "No-Sophynator!"

When asked at the pool,  "Are you a fish?"  She always says, "No, I a dolphin!"

 When she asks for a snack-sandwich, banana, milk, whatever-she always says, "Only big ones!  Only big ones!"

 When it's time to bush her teeth or hair, she runs away laughing and yelling, "Nunca, nunca, nunca!"  ( in Spanish:  never, never, never!)

When it's popsicle time she says, "Only twaclit, only twaclit."

(translated only chocolate-a girl after my own heart:))

Our next reader

There are lots of things I enjoy about homeschooling, but I have discovered that one of my favorites is teaching my children how to read!  Like I assume most people do, we start with letters and sounds and easy Bob books and progress to more and challenging words, books, etc.  I love seeing "the light bulb" go on as they put sounds together into words and then words into sentences.  I love the excitement they have when they've just read a "real" book.  Lately Myles has really taken off in his reading and I'm so proud of this little dude!  I think he gets better everyday at reading more fluently and sounding out hard words.  It's so fun for me to see all his hard work pay off.  Now I even find him in bed in the dark(when he's supposed to be going to sleep) with his flashlight on, sneaking a peek at the next chapter!  Here he is working on an Imagination Station book...Myles will be a first grader next year and we're excited to explore even more new books!

Kyra turns 8!

This year was Kyra's golden birthday!!  She turned 8 on the 8th and wanted a golden theme!  We had some friends over to celebrate with games, lunch, cupcakes, and fun!  We played a memory type game with gold chocolate coins for prizes and had a golden scavenger hunt.  Each pair of kids had clues to find gold sunglasses, a gold trophy, a gold necklace, a golden grape, a gold flower, golden candy, and a gold nugget(guess who spray painted a bunch of rocks at 5:30 that morning :)).  We all had a great time celebrating 8 years of Kyra!

The golden girls!

Kyra requested cherry limeade cupcakes...oh so delicious!

Golden birthday girl

Kyra made herself a gold crown.

Happy birthday to you!

The golden boys...these guys crack me up!

Kyra trying out the new rollerblades from grandma and papa!

Someone once told me that as a mom the days are long, but the years go fast!  I totally get that now!  Can't believe we have an 8 year old!  Kyra, we love you and are so blessed to watch God work in your life each day.  We love you!!

According to Hayley...

 This is how mommy dinosaurs carry their babies...:)

Almost every morning Hayley wakes up asking for breakfast of coffee with chips and salsa!

aka. milk in a special "coffee" cup, yogurt, and Life cereal to dip with:)