December flew by like most months. Here are a few of the highlights!
The girls Sunday hair. It is always fun to come up with special hair styles for Sundays. They usually like rollers in their hair on Saturday nights. Victoria doesn't do it anymore since her hair does not hold the curl very well. Alicia usually does, but I think her hair was too wet this time. Victoria and Alicia have very thick hair. In this pictures Alicia has a 4 strand French braid and Victoria has something like a bun. We have checked out you tube for some neat ideas.
We ended up with everyone sick for about 2 weeks before Christmas. The girls only had fevers and were tired so it made for lots of cozy time laying around reading or watching movies.
We were able to make it to almost all the family gatherings. Bryan's family we had to reschedule and then I thought we were all better but the day of I was really sick but decided to go anyway and then the Moriah started feeling sick just before we left and I think had a fever by the time we got there.
The 4 oldest girls got Lego from Bryan's mom and have been really enjoying it. We don't really have anywhere for them to play since Joel is crawling so I let them play on the dinning room table. Pieces still end up on the floor and I know I have sucked up a few with the vacuum but we try hard to not lose the little pieces.
You will find me here in the kitchen for a big part of my day. One of the girls must have taken this picture. I feel like I need to work on the cooking as it has seemed rather boring to me lately.
I will leave with a picture of our Joel, one of his sisters decided to do his hair! I think it looks really cute but I am not ready for gel yet! I am busy enough with the 5 girls! I have been debating about cutting his hair but I think I will wait until it gets in his eyes. He has a little bit of curl in the back. I know once it is cut he will look like a little boy instead of a baby! He is getting further and further away from being a baby. He is not walking yet but is cruising more and more. He discovered the stairs so we have to keep an eye on him. He is constantly saying "yah, yah, yah" it is very cute. I hope he doesn't learn 'no' too soon, but with all the times I tell him "no" about climbing the stairs I am sure it will be his next word.
Homeschooling is going really well this term. I wrote out the girls schedule until for the rest of year and Victoria will be done in April and Alicia in May. Moriah and Cassia not until June. The oldest 2 do a lot on their own and I continue to work with Moriah on her reading waiting for her to catch on. She can read some but it just hasn't clicked yet. I am slowly starting Cassia on the road to reading so we will see how it goes.
Life is busy here, we had a relator come through the house yesterday for some advice on what to fix up for selling our home and to let us know what we could sell the house for. We are anxious to get started on redoing our upstairs bathroom. We have to take down all the tile and put in a new tub, and flooring. The laundry room is almost done just some painting there and then Joel's room needs wall paper and the trim throughout the whole house needs some touch ups. We were happy with the price the relator thought we should be able to get as it was a little higher then we were hoping.
We are not sure if we will be putting the house up for sale now, but my grandparents are looking at moving so it could be any time (we are looking at buying their house). We are waiting to hear how much they want for their house to make our decision to buy it or not. So we have some big decisions to make. We really want the next house we buy to be the last, moving all the time is not a great way to save money!! :-) So we shall see what this new year will bring!!
