Let if Snow! and YaYa

On Friday, it was Annie's turn to bring home Yaya, her panda bear classroom mascot. Annie (and Mia) took excellent care of Yaya all weekend and we wrote a story and took lots of pictures of what Yaya did this weekend with the girls. Here, Annie is taking Yaya to church on Sunday morning. We woke up to our house being at 46 degrees - luckily mommy called a friend and we had the furnace fixed in no time. But the girls and I stayed out of the house by going out for breakfast, church then meeting Grandma and Papo for lunch at Flossmoor Station before...mia's first piano recital!


Saturday afternoon we had a blast at Willow hill, sledding down with Isla, Alex, Bennett and Ava. Then we went to our friend Priscilla's house down the block for a hot coco and cookie party - the kids had a great time!





Mia attended Breakfast with the Angels on Sunday and had fun seeing Sophie.








Mia performed "Greatest Show on Earth" and "Silent Night" first as a solo then as a duet with Miss Carrie. She did awesome and below is a picture of all of Mia's fellow piano students. The recital was followed by a hot coco and cookie party and then each student lead us in a Christmas sing-a-long, Mia sang "Frost the Snowman".

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Catch up

Haven't blogged in forever!
We took our annual trip to the symphony last month to see " Stone Soup". The kids loved it then we went to Greek town for uncle Brian's birthday.












We put our tree up on Thanksgiving weekend.








And the girls' Christmas Pageant at school was last Friday. Mia was the lead Angel and Annie was a dive and sang "First Noel" with her panda room. It was great and the girls did a great job!




















This weekend I took the girls to our towns Christmas festival with some friends. We also saw the Nutcracker and had lunch with some other friends.















And some silly pictures of Annie dancing with her buddy David.








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Annie's friends

Annie was invited to her classmate Nina's birthday celebration. Nina could only pick 5 friends and Annie was one of the friends. We went to see Hansel and Gretel then to Lou Malnatis for pizza dinner. Mia came too. It was fun to hang out downtown with school friends!



Annie also started her Ballet Recital class today. We took her friend Daniela with us today. It was fun!



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Halloween 2013

Despite the rainy drizzle, the kiddos had a fun Halloween. We had a big parade at school then Halloween parties in the classroom. Later at home we went trick or treating for the last half hour if it - it only drizzled. The girls had a blast. Mia was Wonder woman and Annie was Dorothy.

















Mommy and Miss Cahill went as If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.




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Soccer stars

Great soccer season for Mia! Lots of goals scored and lots of fun with her friends!! See ya next Spring!








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Ballet recital

Annie's tap and ballet recital

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Soccer Star & piano

Mia scored two more goals last Saturday - Annie and I missed the game as it was the same time as Annie's ballet class. Only two more weeks of soccer left! She has been doing great passing to her teammates and playing good defense!

Mia is doing great playing piano still. Her pieces are getting harder so it's taking her a little longer to learn them, but she is still doing super great and playing beautifully. It will be just about one year that she has been playing - I can't believe how fast that year fly - and how much she has learned!