Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day!  Braeden and Teagan enjoyed their now annual scavenger hunt for cards, coupons for great treats like a movie with popcorn and no vegetables at dinner,  Braeden was especially thrilled with the last one :)

Teagan was able to make great headway sounding out her clues.  She is really working on her reading and is starting to notice the results.

The roses are from a student of mine.  Apparently teachers get more Valentine's than anyone else--it seems true in this house (although Teagan and Braeden each came home with quite a few).

I hope the glitter was able to be contained from the Valentine's the kids sent out :)

A Heart-y Girl

Teagan has worn hearts to school for the past two days in recognition of Valentine's week.  Hearts are her favorite shape, so she ends up with many clothes with hearts on them.  Yesterday it was a purple jumper with a heart made of buttons.  You just need to imagine since I forgot to take a picture.  Here is today's outfit.  I bought her two t-shirts and a pair of knit pants at Target just before Christmas--this is one of the t-shirts.  I guess by December 20 the Christmas stuff had to go in favor of Valentine's!  Probably if I looked now I could get something for Halloween!

Valentine's week?

Today we decorated some cookies for Valentine's Day.  These Thursday "holidays" are tough this year.  It seems sort of silly to celebrate at all the weekend before, but the weekend after seems even odder.  Teagan enjoys stretching any holiday out and we all enjoy making crafts and doing projects together.  Teagan asked to make these cookies from a magazine cover and they came out pretty well!

Since Teagan's favorite shape is hearts, she may have enough clothing with hearts to wear something heartish everyday this week--stay tuned we'll try to remember to photograph her!

Yesterday Teagan played basketball.  Mostly she just ran around in circles and played with her hair.  Whenever Teagan passed the ball, the other team seemed to always get the ball.  She had the ball twice and bumped heads with somebody else.  She recovered and was able to continue in the game.

This is a video I took of Teagaan.  If you get seasick, don't watch it.

Braeden

Fashion Girl Outfits

Our fashion girl has started ignoring the outfits we choose together.  

On Sunday we try to choose a week's worth of clothes to make the mornings easier.  This week, Teagan decided to leave those clothes where they were and choose her own outfits.  To this stunning outfit, she added a noodle belt she made herself at school.

Again today, Teagan had a beautiful outfit.  Under this summer dress, she has on pink polka dot tights and a red long-sleeved t-shirt!  It is difficult to get the full impact in this picture--she is talking to Meeps on the phone.

Beautiful Quotes

I like to remember the beautiful quotes from my children.  As I was dressed to leave for a party Friday night (an annual party for work--lots of fun!), Teagan said, 

"You look pretty Mommy.  People who don't know might even think you are a fashion girl."  

I guess my fashion girl party days are long past, and much to Teagan's dismay, hers will be long to arrive!  A fashion girl wears pretty shoes or high boots (after all she is a New England fashion girl), with heels, and a dress or skirt.  My boots almost fit the bill and I wore pants!

Basketball

Braeden is having a great season!  He has become a consistent scorer for his team and is really improving each week.

Teagan got the ball two times during the game on Saturday.  As she explained to Jeff when she got home, "I got the ball two times without my coach giving it to me!  AND when I threw the ball at practice, IT HIT THE NET!"  Just to clarify, she actually means it hit the net, the bottom of the net, it didn't go anywhere near the rim!  Hey, if we all noticed our improvement in those degrees we'd probably be much happier!

  A video of Braeden dribbling and shooting.  I am sure the ball went in at the end of this movie!  He scored three baskets during this game.