Blue Hat, Green Hat

Like most days, I spend some time reading to the kids. This time though, Andrew started cracking up while I read him "Blue Hat, Green Hat" by Sandra Boynton and I thought I'd share it with you:

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Old McDonald

Here is another Andrew video. Sorry. Can't help it! He's just so darn cute!! :)

Singing and dancing has become some of Andrew's favorite things to do lately. When he hears music, he'll start to hum or jibber jabber along and bob his head around. It's quite funny actually to see him "rocking out!" (As you will see in the video, he's trying to sing "EIEIO" and gets a little thrown off when he hears the rooster!)

It always occurs to me each time my kids round this age that they really do grow up fast in such a short period of time. So I'm doing my best to enjoy the moments right along with him (and my girls too!). I LOVE my children and I feel so blessed to be their Mom!

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Walker

For the past few months before taking his own steps, Andrew has taken his play table to a new level - using it as a walking toy around the house. I found it rather funny, especially when he whines when the toy gets stuck and needs help readjusting it in order to keep moving. What a funny little guy! :)

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Winter Piano Recital

Aubrey performed tonight in the Winter Piano Recital - playing Dance of the Reed Flutes by Tchaikovsky. She was nervous but played very well! And of course, she enjoyed the social aspect of it afterwards: being with friends and eating dessert! :) Which often reminds me of my brother, on a larger scale, that if there was going to be food served at an event (wedding, funeral - what have you!)...he was there!!! But that's an entirely different story. Some memories are hard to forget and hard not to mention. (Love ya Michael!) Jocelyn and I have been sick with some kind of bronchial irritation spreading around so we were just glad that we could all make it for the event. There were 16 of them that perfomed tonight and they all did wonderful! Enjoy the video below! 

{family picture}

{he loves music!}

{Aubrey and her (piano) friend}

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Baby Dance

I caught Andrew dancing to the song of one of his musical toys in our living room. It was so cute!!! I had to record it to share with you all!

Andrew's Pasttime

I finally caught Andrew rolling over on video today!!! So excited over the little things, can ya tell? I did get to SEE him roll over for the first time on Thursday and now that he's rolling over more and more often, I thought I should film it for the fam to see. (Please don't mind me and my high pitched mama voice cheering and encouraging him from the sidelines!) Anyways. I am so excited that he has gotten the hang of rolling over and scooting all over the place. I'm sure I won't be saying that when he's pulling things left and right off of shelves, but then again, our stuff isn't within toddler reach so he can have at it with his sister's toys. Just not sure SHE'LL be too thrilled. :) Oh well.


Andrew - Rolling Over 5/24/09

Spring 2009 Piano Recital

Aubrey performed in the Spring piano recital - playing two songs. And since I'm blogging in a late attempt to get caught up, I unfortunately don't remember the names of those two songs. They were embedded into my brain as she practiced. That I can say proudly! I do know that one is from The Little Mermaid! :) She was really nervous going up to play but she did AMAZING! Her hard work paid off and she had fun shaking out the nerves afterwards with her friends and dessert. :)

I tried recording her performance but the battery died towards the end of her second song. Such a bummer! I was also holding a very wiggly baby so I'm apologizing now that it was a bit shaky. If you get motion sickness, just close your eyes and listen! On the positive side of things, this video is better than nothing! ;) We're so proud of Aubrey and how well she plays and all the time she spends practicing. She sure has talent!

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Soccer Updates

Aubrey's soccer team has won their first two games so far of the season! The first game they won 7-0 and the second game they won 3-0. They're doing awesome out there on the field. She's been playing sweeper lately and really enjoys it. This season's coach is actually the same coach she had two seasons ago and we're so glad she's back on her team. Apparently last season there was a problem with the parks and recs system and took the coach out of the loop so we were stuck with a mediocre coach. I do have to say though that this coach last season, as much as we didn't care for him, he pushed them to get higher than their level so this season it really shows on the field!

After the last game was over, Jocelyn was in the truck with me and Andrew and Aubrey rode in the car with John and I have to note another funny saying from Jocelyn. A car in front of us stopped rather quickly because of another car ahead was waiting to turn so because of this we had to stop rather quickly as well. Not the "tires screeching" kind of stop but you know what I mean. The purse falling off the seat onto the floor kind of stop! :) Right after this happened, Jocelyn said to me: "Woah! Let's not do that again, okay?!?! That was SCARY!" I couldn't help but laugh. What a funny girl!

Here are some pictures from tonight's soccer game:

{She caught me snapping her picture here!}

{And again}

{Of course her attention span doesn't last long at this age. The crackers out won her desire to watch the game.}

{Now I see you, now I don't!}

I know this picture has nothing to do with soccer, but I had to post this adorable picture of Andrew somewhere! :)

{I layed Andrew on our bed while I was helping to get the girls off to bed and when I came back to where he was laying, this is how I found him. I just love how he's holding his hands together!}

Monkeying Around

This morning at 1am, I heard a LOUD noise followed by screaming and crying. At first I thought I was hearing things but then I heard her cry again. I startled John out of his sleep, jumped out of bed and we both darted across the hall to Jocelyn's room. She had managed to stand herself back up in the middle of her room during the time it took us to get to her and she complained of a headache. Poor girl fell out of her bed for the first time. We don't have rails to keep her in her big girl bed yet and I felt terrible that she got hurt because of it. A little cuddling and singing put her right back to sleep.

Around 11 this morning before I started on her lunch, she was running in circles around the coffee table in the living room singing the "no more monkeys jumping on the bed" song. Then she ran over to me and with all seriousness in her voice and on her face said (or should I say yelled), "I'm a monkey and I fell off my bed and went KABOOOOOM!" That has got to be one of her funniest sayings yet. I'm glad I'm writing these things down so I don't forget them. Priceless!

Another surprise I found this morning was Andrew laying at almost the bottom of his crib. I layed him down last night right smack in the middle and by morning, he had wiggled himself OUT of his covers and was laying sideways a good foot or two down from his original spot. So there we have it: it's official! He's starting to be mobile!! :)

Tonight, I caught the cutest video of Jocelyn singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to Andrew in his swing. She's so sweet to him and I love watching all three of them interact with one another with great love and care. I love being a mom. It's the best job and reward in the whole wide world!


Such A Big Boy! 3/11/09

My Daughter, My Teacher

We've been working with Jocelyn on her ABC's and I happened to film her singing the ABC song (I had to sing along with her for support). At the end she says, "Good job momma!" That made me laugh for quite awhile. It's almost like she's saying: "Good job momma...you now know your ABC's like I do!" :) She never ceases to amaze me!

Jocelyn (ABC's) - 2/11/09

Jingle Bells

The girls and I were sitting in the dining room waiting for some of John's yummy waffles and out of no where Jocelyn started to sing the WHOLE song to Jingle Bells. I was quite stunned to be honest! We've been playing a little bit of Christmas music around here but not a whole lot so it really surprised me that she knew this song entirely. It was really cute and we were all so excited for her that she had it memorized. I went and grabbed the camera and recorded what I could (she only did the first verse this time)...finally getting her to sing a little bit on TAKE #4! I was beginning to think that she enjoyed the spotlight! :)


Jingle Bells - Take One


Jingle Bells - Take Two


Jingle Bells - Take Three


Jingle Bells - Take Four

Aubrey At The Piano

Aubrey performed tonight in her Christmas piano recital and did such an awesome job! We're really proud of how well she did - especially for just starting lessons this past Winter. She was also pretty happy that she had both of her songs memorized for the recital: Oh Christmas Tree and The First Noel. Here is a little video of her performance. (Again, you'll have to pause the blog music in order to hear the video.)

Aubrey's Winter 2008 Piano Recital

Soccer Playoffs

{Aubrey: Fall soccer 2008}

Aubrey's soccer team made it to playoffs again. Their first playoff game was tonight and they won 4 to 0. The next game they play is on Saturday and if they beat that team, we'll go on to the last final game the following Wednesday. She has had so much fun playing soccer and does so well. Because in tonight's game she was mainly playing defense, she didn't get a whole lot of action on the field but here is two videos of her team making a goal and her standing guard blocking the goal:


Fall Soccer Finals - Goal

Fall Soccer Finals - Aubrey

And a video of Jocelyn 'dancing' on the sidelines for I guess either something to do to stay warm or because she was happy I gave her a few m&ms (personally, i'm thinking the m&ms was the reason):

Jocelyn - 10/13/08

The Itsy Bitsy Spider

The Itsy Bitsy Spider is one of Jocelyn's favorite songs. I caught her singing the song over and over with her puppy dog on the couch and took a video of it. Arm motions and all! :) (First mute blog music on the right scroll bar to hear video.)

Itsy Bitsy Spider 10/08