Happy birthday!

This past weekend was my grandpa's birthday (I won't put in here how old he is :) Drew and Kate call him "papa" and in the two videos below they are working hard at wishing him a happy birthday. Happy Birthday Grandpa Vryhof!!

Here is our first attempt:

Drew and Kate were having so much fun after I stopped the first video that we decided to record them again. You can tell that we have two children who are very used to being photographed and recorded!

yoga

Kate loves to do "yoga." Here she is practicing one of her positions. Her legs are straight, her trunk is straight, and her head is resting on the floor. It makes my muscles tighten up just looking at that amazing flexibility!Yum! Kate loves to eat oranges. They're probably her favorite fruit.

Today I picked up Kate from daycare and she had her hair "up!" She's got enough hair now that it can be gathered into one of those hair holder band things . . . I guess I need to start learning the names of these girl hair products. Kate thought she looked quite pretty!

I happened to put on my slippers tonight, which immediately led to Drew yelling "Slipper Party!!" We got out Kate and Drew's slippers and had a dance party in the living room in our slippers. Good times.

Drew was really rocking it!

In the video below Kate is playing peekaboo with Jana and saying, "I see you!" She sneaks under the table and then can see Jana through the cutout pattern in the center of our table. It's fun to see her joy at spotting Jana.

The other night at dinner both Drew and Kate decided to take turns being there version of scary. It was making Jana and I laugh to watch them give a yell (that was supposed to be scary) and proceed to grin at us proud of their scary accomplishment. Yes, these are the weird things we do during dinner! :)

Student of the day

Last week Drew was the student of the day at preschool. As part of his special day, he got to take home Buddy Bear (seated next to Drew) and write about his time at home with Buddy Bear in a journal. Jana and I aren't the craftiest people in the world, and it's almost like a little scrapbook for each child in his class. The picture below is one that made it into Drew's section of the book. For show-and-share, which Drew also got to do as part of the day, he brought in his favorite construction vehicle blanket to show his class. Drew handled being the center of attention very well and when he got home he sang us the special song that his class sings for the student of the day. We didn't take very many pictures during Halloween evening because the kids were constantly on the go. We went to East Lansing for trick-or-treating and joined some friends. We had a dragon, a leopard, a fireman, and a bumblebee in our group.

Kate had to try out her bumblebee costume prior to the big evening, but she didn't like to keep on her hat!

Look at our little bumblebee! Kate loves making these silly faces for the camera.

School pictures

Drew got his first school picture back today! I'm frustrated that I can't make the picture below less blurry, but for some reason blogger isn't cooperating with me. If you click on the picture to enlarge it, then it's a lot clearer. Jana and I are thrilled with how Drew's picture turned out and we're looking forward to seeing his class picture. Drew looks like such a big guy in this picture, doesn't he? It's hard to believe he's only three!Earlier this week we had our first parent-teacher conference at Drew's school and he's doing very well. He knows everything he should know at this point and he's interacting well with his classmates. Way to go Drew!!