Owensk told me last night that he has a new favorite song. I'm finding his favorites are short-lived at times, although "Had a Bad Day" was at the top of his list for months. Then it was "Life is a Highway".
Now. It is "Last Christmas, I gaaaaaave you my heart. But the very next day, you gaaaave it away." He's singing it more than Rudolph or Jingle Bell Rock or Winter Wonderland. He's probably going to get Chloe to start singing it, too. She still goes nutso when 'Bad Day' comes on...Chloe only has to hear the first five notes and her little hands are waving over her head to get our attention that Owen's previous favorite song is on the radio. And I must say previous, because we are quickly corrected by the boy if we call it his favorite song now. It is no longer. Perhaps I need to plug in a Manheim Steamroller CD to play in Owen's bedroom, instead of leaving the radio on all night long. All I need is a four year old running around the house singing George Michael.
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Season's Greetings ~ 2006
Another year has passed and we are looking forward to celebrating another Christmas with those we love. We have all been in school to learn new things, enjoyed vacations with friends & family and watched new milestones be attained.
Todd went back to school for Project Management certification. He spent many grueling hours every night in front of his laptop, study books and in a virtual classroom after the kids went to bed to learn everything needed to become a certified Project Manager. He doesn’t have enough documented work hours to complete the certification process by taking a very intense exam, but should be there soon. He also started a new job in the Sales Organization two months after accepting the new position. Although Todd enjoyed supporting two of Level 3’s top 10 customers over the past two plus years, he was wanting to learn something new. Over the past two weeks in his new job, Todd knows he’s in a perfect fit position and is extremely excited about what he will be doing supporting the sales teams and meeting with customers scattered around New York City, Miami and our nation’s capital.
Owen moved up from his fire engine toddler bed into a big boy bunk bed with a tent of stars over the top. He loves it and also the new light he can turn on/off right over his head. Owen’s favorite activities are weekly Tumblebus visits at school where he and his friends board a schoolbus remade into a gym for kids where he gets to jump on a trampoline, hang from monkey bars and do gymnastics. Although a weekly Friday trip to Dunkin Donuts before school is normally at the top of his list of prayers every night of what he is thankful for. J This year, Kelley’s dad took him shopping and let Owen buy Christmas presents for the family. Owen even helped wrap the presents and is so proud of himself for picking out Christmas presents for his mom, dad, Chloe and Maggie.
Chloe is talking more and more, with new words and better pronunciations being added to her vocabulary on a daily basis. She is our little songbird, always singing surprisingly on tune with the right melody. Chloe’s favorite song right now is the ABC’s. We removed the front of her crib, so she can climb in and out of her ‘big girl’ bed à she doesn’t even have a guard rail and stays on her mattress without falling out! After two years of having very little hair, it seems to finally be growing in as a beautiful blondie girl. Chloe is also using the potty…shouldn’t be long before we’re done with diapers for good!
Kelley has taken a full load of classes every term over the past year and is now ten classes away from completing her bachelor’s degree in Business Management. She has picked up lampworking, a new hobby she learned from her Aunt Gail last summer. Kelley is spending much of her free time behind a torch melting rods of glass into beads and is having a blast doing it. She has really enjoyed being able to make necklaces and other jewelry out of the beads to give to family and friends.
This summer we took family vacations to Minnesota to see Todd’s folks (Owen keeps asking when he can go back and fish some more on his Papa Wenzel’s lake) and Phoenix to see Kelley’s aunt, uncle, cousins & the bad dogs. We also traveled to North Carolina in April to see Leslie, the younger sister of Kelley’s good friend Mary, get married to the love of her life. We really enjoyed spending time with the Payne family during this trip to the coast. Also in the spring, we drove over to Alabama and spent a weekend with the Cox and McCord families at a lake home and loved watching the four kids play the time away. We took long weekend vacations to Amelia Island, FL in September and in November to Helen, GA with our good friends Martin/Carolina and their two kids AND Christal/Daniel and his two girls. Christal was one of Kelley’s good friends from high school whom she hadn’t seen in over ten years and just got back in touch with….it is great rekindling old friendships and seeing that some things don’t change over time. Our vacations to Ohio to see the Barber family, Florida to see Michele/Cecelia and DC to see the Paynes didn’t happen for various reasons, but we hope to visit them in this coming year.
As we near the end of 2006, we are spending much time counting our blessings of health, family and the friendships we see growing stronger. We wish you all the best of everything in the New Year.
May you find peace, contentment & health
With much love,
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to you all!
TOCK
Maggie, Foster, Abbie & Sammy
Todd went back to school for Project Management certification. He spent many grueling hours every night in front of his laptop, study books and in a virtual classroom after the kids went to bed to learn everything needed to become a certified Project Manager. He doesn’t have enough documented work hours to complete the certification process by taking a very intense exam, but should be there soon. He also started a new job in the Sales Organization two months after accepting the new position. Although Todd enjoyed supporting two of Level 3’s top 10 customers over the past two plus years, he was wanting to learn something new. Over the past two weeks in his new job, Todd knows he’s in a perfect fit position and is extremely excited about what he will be doing supporting the sales teams and meeting with customers scattered around New York City, Miami and our nation’s capital.
Owen moved up from his fire engine toddler bed into a big boy bunk bed with a tent of stars over the top. He loves it and also the new light he can turn on/off right over his head. Owen’s favorite activities are weekly Tumblebus visits at school where he and his friends board a schoolbus remade into a gym for kids where he gets to jump on a trampoline, hang from monkey bars and do gymnastics. Although a weekly Friday trip to Dunkin Donuts before school is normally at the top of his list of prayers every night of what he is thankful for. J This year, Kelley’s dad took him shopping and let Owen buy Christmas presents for the family. Owen even helped wrap the presents and is so proud of himself for picking out Christmas presents for his mom, dad, Chloe and Maggie.
Chloe is talking more and more, with new words and better pronunciations being added to her vocabulary on a daily basis. She is our little songbird, always singing surprisingly on tune with the right melody. Chloe’s favorite song right now is the ABC’s. We removed the front of her crib, so she can climb in and out of her ‘big girl’ bed à she doesn’t even have a guard rail and stays on her mattress without falling out! After two years of having very little hair, it seems to finally be growing in as a beautiful blondie girl. Chloe is also using the potty…shouldn’t be long before we’re done with diapers for good!
Kelley has taken a full load of classes every term over the past year and is now ten classes away from completing her bachelor’s degree in Business Management. She has picked up lampworking, a new hobby she learned from her Aunt Gail last summer. Kelley is spending much of her free time behind a torch melting rods of glass into beads and is having a blast doing it. She has really enjoyed being able to make necklaces and other jewelry out of the beads to give to family and friends.
This summer we took family vacations to Minnesota to see Todd’s folks (Owen keeps asking when he can go back and fish some more on his Papa Wenzel’s lake) and Phoenix to see Kelley’s aunt, uncle, cousins & the bad dogs. We also traveled to North Carolina in April to see Leslie, the younger sister of Kelley’s good friend Mary, get married to the love of her life. We really enjoyed spending time with the Payne family during this trip to the coast. Also in the spring, we drove over to Alabama and spent a weekend with the Cox and McCord families at a lake home and loved watching the four kids play the time away. We took long weekend vacations to Amelia Island, FL in September and in November to Helen, GA with our good friends Martin/Carolina and their two kids AND Christal/Daniel and his two girls. Christal was one of Kelley’s good friends from high school whom she hadn’t seen in over ten years and just got back in touch with….it is great rekindling old friendships and seeing that some things don’t change over time. Our vacations to Ohio to see the Barber family, Florida to see Michele/Cecelia and DC to see the Paynes didn’t happen for various reasons, but we hope to visit them in this coming year.
As we near the end of 2006, we are spending much time counting our blessings of health, family and the friendships we see growing stronger. We wish you all the best of everything in the New Year.
May you find peace, contentment & health
With much love,
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to you all!
TOCK
Maggie, Foster, Abbie & Sammy
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