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cassandra walking holly on the porch

Griffin wearing the shirt i had when i was about 8 years old from my trip to the salem witch museum! it's his fav shirt now!

savannah posing

alyssa enjoying the outdoor entertaiment!

it has been oddly quiet around here lately. quiet but busy if that makes any sense? hopefully it does!

our daily school routine has been plugging along. cassandra walks her goat every day after school for exercise. she is supposed to be teaching her to walk on a chain for the showring but i admit, it is a PITA and i avoid it sometimes. cassandra seems to get anxious when the goat acts up. i guess she doesn't have much confidence in all this livestock stuff and i'm so used to it with having had the sheep. she is doing better thought. she has 2 practice shows in february. the "big" show is in april. savannah reached her reading AR goal at school and was over the moon! i am so proud of her, she worked very hard. she had trouble the first 2 quarters as we discovered she was signing on to take tests that were on books she had never read before and then getting 0's on the test. she was so deflated and it was so odd to see those scores because she's in the highest reading group in her class. once we figured it out her teacher took extra time to help her sign on and get the correct test. since then, she's been all A's!

well it's kindergarten registration week at our school. i honestly hate it but i guess it's the way it is. the upside is that it appears we have a good chance of not being forced into all day kinder. with all the budget cuts they are finding that cutting free all day K would save the state $218 million dollars. i have all my fingers crossed that griffin will have the option for 1/2 day. he's doing great in preschool and most days he wants to go. at least it's only 3 afternoons a week.

alyssa is great, she's still all over. she recently learned how to climb onto the couch. that isn't so bad. the fact that she likes to "bouncy bouncy" on it is frightening. so we're working on it. and we removed the coffee table just in case! she's talking more and more (if that were possible) and her sentences are getting pretty complex for 19 months old. you can just see her working things out in her head sometimes when she's watching the kids or me doing something. today she was in the kitchen singing "shake your booty...shake your booooo-tayyyyyyyy" and it was adorable!

i am anxiously awaiting our march vacation. 3 weeks of spring break bliss! disneyland calls to me like the mothership LMAO. i can't wait to go. we had a blast last time in march. alyssa was 9 months old so i can only imagine how awesome it will be this time w/ her being older. i'm praying for good weather. last time we had a hot spell and it was in the 90's the last few days we were there. toasty!

other than that, i am co-hosting a baby shower for my friend traci on the 8th. our friend audrey lives up north and she's the one i'm hosting it with. we all met on babycenter.com and we all have june 2007 babies. they are really cool ladies. one of our moms moved to washington but we still claim her as our own! so i'm excited to do this for traci. audrey is coming down the night before and having a sleepover so we can be up and butts moving in the morning! we are doing a brunch shower which makes me salivate just thinking about it!

so that's it, i hope everyone is doing great!

susan