Random Happenings From January

Today, the twins had their concert at preschool and also celebrated their birthday! Due to all of the snow days and school cancellations, today was the first day that Mrs. Clayton had since their actual birthday! So, she had the class celebrate their birthday today! They wore these happy birthday hats, the kids sang to them as they had this fake birthday cake, and Mrs. Clayton got each of them a book! We've had such a great year at Preschool!


Here they are with their very first teacher, Mrs. Clayton!

My 4 year olds after their music program at school today!

I was so proud of these two! They sang all of the songs, watched their teachers for words and directions, did the arm and hand motions, and just had fun! I can't believe how far they've come in 4 years! God is so good!

Addison and Carter were in the middle of the group of kids, so my pictures aren't the greatest! But, we do have clear video of them singing their little hearts out!

They sang about 5 songs. On the way to school this morning, I asked the twins what songs they were going to sing today and here is what they both told me: "We're going to sing a song about hibernation, another song about puffy clouds, and the Pee Pee song!" I said, "Aww guys, you guys are silly you aren't gonna sing a song about Pee Pee!" Well, after listening to the program, they did sing a song about hibernation, a song about puffy clouds, and a song that said "H-A-PP-Y!" As in they were spelling the word Happy and they called it the Pee Pee song! They were right! On the way home, they said, "See Mommy, we told ya!" I am so glad they are paying attention to their teacher and learning songs! Even if they are about "Pee Pee!" :)

Here comes Addison walking into the program with her classmates!

Here is Carter coming in for the program with his class!

I got there early, before the program started, and got to watch Carter and Addison play with their friends. I just love to watch them interact with the other kids and not just with each other. Both of them seemed to play with different groups of kids in their class, rather than sticking to each other the entire time.

Ahh they saw me! Ha!

At home, before mommy took them to preschool today!

Carter is SO tall! Where in the world he gets this from is beyond us!

Can't believe they're 4 and halfway through their first year of Preschool! Wow! One proud mommy here!

This past weekend, all the girls in Aunt Kristin's wedding party, including Addison who is the flower girl, went to try on bridesmaids dresses and flower girl dresses for Kristin to see and decide on. Kristin was finally able to pick a dress and color for the bridesmaids, and we are still finalizing the flower girl dress! We have found a couple that we like! This is one of them, but not my favorite!

Addy said she wanted a blue dress, just like Cinderella!

As soon as I saw her in this dress, I immediately said her daddy is going to die and cry when he sees her in this! I can't imagine her in a real wedding dress some day! Crazy to think that will happen before we know it! But for now, she is still our little baby girl.

One day, I was in the shower and Macy plopped right down in Addison's lap. Macy is usually in my lap all of the time, I am her mommy and she knows it. But on this day, my lap was unavailable so Macy decided that Addison's lap would have to do! She actually likes Addison because Addison is soft and gentle, while Carter is more loud and rough and Macy is kinda leary of him! She likes him, but trusts Addison more!

Unfortunately, our son is into princesses these days too! And, it's starting to freak Daddy out! ha! He wanted to try this on, and one day I caught him asleep for naptime in his crib, holding 2 princess dolls! Yikes! He is excited about Disney World this summer and can't wait to see the princesses! Oh My! I think Daddy might have a heart attack on this subject!

This was Alex's 4th Birthday party last weekend. It was a bowling party and it was the twins' first time ever bowling. They had a blast! Alex is only 5 days apart from the twins, kinda funny! I was leaving Kettering hospital and that same day Shelly was coming in to have Alex! Crazy!

the big bowling ball, bigger than her I think! The bowling shoes were the cutest little things ever! They actually fit so good! I was a little freaked out about the nastiness of sharing dirty bowling shoes, but Shelly assured me that they sprayed them down really well. Ah well, it was fun anyway!

She just rolled her ball, and obviously doesn't care about the outcome! Ha!

Waiting their turn to bowl

She actually did okay! Knocked quite a few pins down!

I told them to watch their balls after they rolled them and this is what they did!

Big boy!

Setting up our games for bowling!

This was at Chuck E. Cheese on their actual birthday night! We took them, just them, to do something fun with them on their actual birthday! They had a blast! Mamaw and Papaw, Kissy and Kyle went too and we all had so much fun! We had a ton of tickets, but only got these tiny plastic spiders and airplanes that broke on the way home! :) Gotta love Chuck E. Cheap, I mean, Chuck E. Cheese! The kids sure did have a great night!

Our family at Chuck E. Cheese on the twins 4th Birthday, January 12, 2011.

Addison at gymastics! She loves gymastics! She's been taking it since early fall and loves it so much! This is her first leotard and she looks so cute in it!

my monkey swinging on a rope

Doing her warmups and exercises! It's crazy to think that I used to go to this same gymnastics center and sit on this same floor when I was younger!

Addy and her gymastics class

Hi Mommy!

January has been a great, exciting month! We've had so much fun things going on, like turning 4, continuing gymnastics, birthday parties, school musisc program, and just a great month! However, I am looking forward to February for our family vacation! Ahh! Not too much longer!