What's New at Our House

We went back to school this week and have gotten right back into the swing of things. The kids were definitely ready to go back on Tuesday. With me it was okay to go back. The dread of going back was far worse than actually being there. Once I got there it was good. I think it's kind of like pulling a band-aid off. You just have to do it and then you realize it's really okay. It was great to see my 8 little friends in my class and all the girls that I work with. We are truly blessed to have all 3 of us be at such a great place.

Nathan's class celebrated the 50th day of school this week with a 50's themed celebration. They had hamburgers and root beer floats at lunch, a sock hop in creative movement, fun times with hula hoops, and counted to 50 all kinds of different ways. They had so much fun! The kids all had huge smiles on their faces the whole day.

Born to Hand Jive, Baby! Do kids ever get tired of the whole bunny ears thing? Reading!!! Nathan is becoming a great reader! He really enjoys reading to us every night and singing all the fun poems/songs that they are learning in school. He likes school and doesn't even mind doing his homework. This last week we took his Pizza Hut Book-It coupon and got hime a pizza as a reward for all of his reading. We are so proud of him!

Potty Training!!! The week of Christmas was a big turning point for Abby and the potty. She is doing a great job and suddenly has just decided it's time to use the potty. We have even been venturing out of the house in panties the last few days. She wears her Pull-Up to school and has stayed dry all day. Most of the kids in her class are at the same stage. So they go to the potty ALL day in there. Clay & I are so excited that the end of diapers is in sight for us. Yeah!!!

And of course Mallory Joy or Mallalee as Abby calls her. We have only seen her a short short time on the day she was born, but we love her so much already. The kids always want to look at Marcia's blog to see the pics of Mallory and Parsh and Maf. Abby lets out a big, "Mallalee!" cheer when she sees the pics and anytime we see baby stuff when we are out and about she cheers out for "Mallalee!"

Had to Share

Marcia emailed me all of her pics from Christmas last night. There were alot of fun ones, but this one was my favorite. We sure love Uncle Maf! He is such a good sport.

I'm an Aunt!!!

Mallory Joy was born yesterday to my sister and brother-in-law!! She is precious and we are so excited that she is here. She weighed in at 6 lbs. 13 oz. and was 19 1/2 inches long. Almost identical stats to her cousin Abby. It was such a great day! I am aleady planning my next trip to go see her and give her some good spoiling.

Christmas 2007!

We have had a great Christmas week! We started out the week celebrating with our in-town family and then traveled to Houston to celebrate with our family there. We hope you have all had a great time with family and friends. Merry Christmas!

Johnson Family Christmas

We just got home from having our first Christmas celebration of the season. We always travel to Abilene the weekend before Christmas to have our time with the Johnsons. Minus a trip to the walk-in clinic with Abby for an ear infection, we all had a fun weekend. The kids just played and played and we just laughed and laughed at all the things they came up with. Nathan got to spend Saturday afternoon with his Uncle Ryan painting at Mimi's pottery studio. He would stay there forever if we'd let him. He loves to have a project to work on.

Abby is working very hard sweeping Mimi's floor in her beautiful mardi gras beads. This broom and dust pan is a hot toy at Mimi's. Nathan loved playing with it too when he was her age.

Abby with her "cereal bowl". She takes her "cereal bowl" very seriously. That's what she would eat at every meal if it was up to her.

We love Aunt Lyssa and Uncle Ryan!

After a hard day of playing and painting at the studio. Nathan crashed. He slept through dinner and then came back strong when it was time for presents.

Abby is finally warming up to Grandad!

Cars, Crossbows & Catapults, and more!

Abby got her Dora big wheel! She was very quick to point out where Boots was. He is her favorite.

Everybody needs some new dress-up clothes!

Merry Johnson Family Christmas 2007!

It's Beginning to Look Alot Like Christmas!

We are definitely getting into the Christmas spirit around here. The last few weeks have been full of many fun times. We went to a Christmas tree lighting, decorated Christmas cookies on a COLD winter day, and saw Santa at school.

I sure love my guys!

We definitely won't win any cookie decorating contest, but we all had a great time decorating our Christmas cookies with lots of sprinkles and icing.

Abby is still not sure about Santa. This is the Santa that came to school last week. Abby would have nothing to do with him when her class went in, but she could do it with Nathan. I have to agree with her here, though this Santa was a little scary.

Busy Weekend!

What a great weekend we have had! Saturday we went to Cabelas to see Santa. Nathan walked right up and sat on his lap, but Abby was having NO part of Santa at all! She was yelling, "No, No!" So this year's picture is Nathan only. Last year we had both of them in the picture and the year before we only had Abby. Who can predict what the reaction to Santa will be? Maybe next year we'll have both of them again.

Saturday night we had a great birthday party for our friends Kendall & Kaitlyn. It was at their gymnastics place and the kids had a great time! Nathan loved the zip line.

Abby bonded with Mr. Chris!

Red icing from Elmo cupcakes!