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Amanda on September 2nd, 2012

Training wheels that is! Ian declared, one day in May, that he was going to learn to ride his bike without training wheels.  The following weekend we took him to his school to teach him and wouldn’t you know?  The boy picked it up in about 15-20 minutes!!! Videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjNbQEZMjf0   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tblhtJax_Ks   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tblhtJax_Ks   […]

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Amanda on June 21st, 2012

Matthew’s class sang at church in March for Sunbeam Sunday. Waiting for the festivities to begin.     The children have arrived!   Matthew is in the middle row, fourth in on the left (to the left of the girl in the yellow dress): Waving to Papaw: The applause was too loud, apparently!   Here […]

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Amanda on May 14th, 2012

Back in February, Willow Ridge had a Kindergarten and 1st Grade concert.  The whole family went to see Ian’s stage debut. 🙂 Mom and I took Ian about an hour to snag good seats up from.  While we waited for the festivities to begin, Ian had fun dancing on stage.    Soon the rest of […]

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Amanda on May 11th, 2012

We were invited to a Reading Celebration in Ian’s classroom back in February.  Ian’s teacher, Mrs. Newman, taught a lesson to the children while the parents watched.  Her lesson was all about how readers use print strategies to read like they’re talking. After explaining in detail and showing the kids how it was done, she […]

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Amanda on March 10th, 2012

(and the last of my 2011 posts! woo!) Christmas morning started off a little slow.  Mike and I were  up well before the boys and we actually had to send Matthew in to wake Ian up. We weren’t really upset they were sleeping in but we had my family coming over for brunch and we […]

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