Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Christmas!

It was a great Christmas in the Dennison household!  We spent over half the day in pajamas, opening gifts, eating, and Skyping with family, and the kids were the best behaved on Christmas that they ever have been.  I guess that was their gift to us!  In the late afternoon, we went over to our friends' house for a vegetarian, gluten-free, dairy-free, etc etc Christmas dinner and caroling.  

You have to get creative with the Christmas tree when your living room is the size of most peoples' bathrooms.


Finley's favorite gift was a car transporter.



First bag of Mike & Ikes (the only candy he got, which he rationed throughout the whole day).

Elise's big gift, a scooter.  She likes to pick her leg up and do "scooter ballet".



No hands, no problem!

Joint gift for both kids-- an empty fish tank.

"What do you think it's for?  What could live in there?" we ask.  
"Cockroaches?" asks Finley.
"No," we laugh.
"Little people??" he guesses.

The kids trying on my big gift-- rain boots.

Love how we got our fake fire in the back of this photo of our happy little firefighter.



Elise brushing my hair with her new "tangle teaser" (which I highly recommend for those with tangly hair).


At our friends' house for Christmas dinner.


Elise made this little Rudolph hat at school with her handprints.

Merry Christmas to our family and friends near and especially far.  We love you and miss you!  


Sunday, December 28, 2014

December iPhone Photos

Time to catch up on December iPhone photos!


Finley in front of one of many gigantic Christmas trees in HK.

Out for dinner and dancing as a goodbye to some great friends who just left HK.


 Delicious birthday breakfast at work for me.

Elise looks like a J Crew model.

And Finley's showing off his big eyes.

Beautiful day at HK Park, trying out the "selfie stick" Nate was given at a tech conference.


Lots of time at playgrounds!

The kids' first pets, some fish they decided to name Margo 1, Margo 2, Fin, and Lucy Orange.  When we gave them the empty tank for Christmas and asked what they thought could live inside, Finley replied, "Cockroaches?" 
Now every time they go into the room and see them they say, "The fish are still alive!" with surprise. 

More playgrounds!

It can be extremely difficult to get a good photo of these two.

Better!

Dinner at an Indian restaurant.  

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Class Christmas Pageant

I don't talk much about work on this blog, but if you want to see what I've been up to, CLICK HERE to see a video of our class Christmas pageant. :)  For those of you who have worked with 4-year-olds before, you'll appreciate how difficult it was to even get them to do this much!

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

ABCs

This smart boy can identify all the letters of the alphabet and put them in order!

And this smart girl can sing the whole alphabet song!

Thursday, November 27, 2014

November Wrap-Up

Taking a break from his scooter to climb. Look Mom, no hands!


Elise is so proud of the crafts and paintings she makes at school. She wore this around for hours!

One of our roommates. 

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

I'm Not Tired!

After they both insisted they weren't tired and didn't need a nap...



Yep, we have kids that get more energetic when they're tired, that is until they totally crash!

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Roof Season

It's definitely roof season now. We're enjoying lots of gorgeous afternoons up there!





Friday, November 21, 2014

Elise at School

Elise LOVES her "school"!  Here are some photos from her teacher, Ms. Kathrin.  They've been learning about shapes this month.  Elise is really good at identifying circles and triangles so far!  

 Triangle Stencil Painting

Threading a Letter Necklace

Human Rectangle

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Swinging

The kids discovered a new way to swing! The temperature has finally broken 80 degrees here (well, most days) and we are loving it. I predict a lot of playground time in our future....

 


This poor little one has been getting two new molars over the past couple of weeks and there has been a LOT of screaming and crying in the house (the phrase "weeping and gnashing of teeth" comes to mind). We have to really soak up the smiles when they come!