Tree Lighting Ceremony, 2009
We made it to the annual Lake Forest Tree Lighting Ceremony again this year. John and Kris and the kids and Grandma came too! We made it just in the nick of time and guess who was called upon to come up and flip the switch which lit up the entire street and market square…my niece, Sidney!!! How cool is that :-)
Here are a couple of pics.
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| The group shot. |
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| Myself with Vivianne and Sidney! |
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| Vivianne on Santa’s lap…she told him she wanted candy for Christmas, then threw a fit when we left to go home and she didn’t have any candy…I don’t think she understood that she had to wait until Christmas ;-) |
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The fam, minus Lilah. |
And she smiles :-)
She’s just started to smile, not all the time yet, but every once in a while I can get her to smile…and it’s so cute!
Parent-Teacher Conference
Today I had my first ever parent-teacher conference (as a parent, that is!) with Vivianne’s pre-school teachers. They had completed a very informal evaluation on her and shared it with me. The first thing on the list was “separation anxiety” and next to it they had written, NONE. I just laughed inside because it wasn’t that long ago that this child wouldn’t leave my side…people told me then that it was a “phase” and that she’d get over it and eventually learn she’d be ok without me…well they were right, it was a phase, a quite long phase, but none-the-less a phase :-) Dropping her off is a breeze, she marches right into class with the biggest smile and waves goodbye over her shoulder to me, if she says goodbye at all!
The next thing on the list was “peer relationships” and written by it was, VERY OUTGOING AND FRIENDLY :-) Note the “VERY”! That’s all her father in her as I am not outgoing whatsoever, I’m more like the shy kid in the corner, but a friendly shy kid, so she may get that from me ;-)
The next thing was “attention span” and by it was, GROWING. Nicely put, I thought :-)
The rest of the comments that followed were positive as well, so apparently we’ve haven’t screwed her up too much…yet!
This is who I married...
The other night I was paying bills, happened to come across the hospital bills from Lilah’s delivery and I commented to Thomas how expensive they were even with our insurance.
Thomas: Are we all paid up now?
Me: Yes
Thomas: Well, good. At least we don’t have to worry about them taking her back, she’s all ours now :-)
Santa was good to me, again, this year!
I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas!
Lilah’s 1st Christmas!
The Grosges plus a couple Kerstens ;-)