Hula Hoops and Loose Teeth

I just had to post this adorable video of Kallie doing Hula Hoops on the Wii Fit! Notice her little tongue going back and forth to help her concentrate! It just makes me laugh to see her little moves!

I also had to show you Abbie's latest artwork! She is so cute how she always adds the new baby to her family drawings now even though he won't actually be here until June! You can see her tall tall dad on the right and then mom, then Abbie, then Kallie(with her crazy curls), and the new baby brother on the left. She also draws our house and our tree out front! So sweet!

In other news..... Kallie has just revealed to us a loose tooth! It's one of the front teeth on the bottom and I am kinda freaking out a little. She won't be 4 until April and it just seems to me that she's to young to be losing teeth, but maybe it's just another Kallie quirk! Hopefully all is well when we go to the dentist next month!

Also, I have to brag a little on my Abbie girl! We love, love, love, Abbie's school and as most of you know it's a dual language program and Abbie is doing very well learning Spanish as well as keeping up with all she needs to learn in English. I was helping out in her kindergarten classroom on Tuesday and was busily putting papers together and doing other odd jobs when the teacher called Abbie up to her desk. I glanced over and then continued working on my jobs. After a couple of minutes Abbie's teacher came to me and just said, "WOW!" In kindergarten, they don't test reading because most of the kids don't read, but Mrs. Abad had decided to test some of the kids that do know how to read just to see how they're doing. She asked them to read a simple story and counted how many words they could read in one minute. Well, Abbie read 113 words in a minute with 0 mistakes! The only kid in the class that was even close to that, read 70 words in a minute. Mrs. Abad then told me that the spring semester goal for Kindergarten is that the children read 5-10 words. The spring semester goal for 3rd grade is 109-140 words. Abbie did at least as well as a 3rd grader!!!! Holy Cow!!! I knew she could read but even I was impressed by this!! We're so proud of our little girl and so happy she is doing so well in her school!

Anyway... all is well with the pregnancy and baby boy seems to be growing and developing well(as evidenced by the well placed kicks and jabs in my abdomen)! Karlo is still working when and where he can find work and we are grateful for all of the blessings being poured out upon us in that regard. So, enjoy the pics and video and until next time....