Nyla's Graduation

Well many of you know that I homeschooled Nyla this past year. I am grateful though for her former preschool, New Testament, allowing her to participate in their field trips and holiday programs so that she could see her old friends once in a while. She also attend a few of their in class sessions .

She was also about to participate in their graduation ceremony for preschool and kindergarten. Nyla is such a bright little girl... really. I feel blessed to be her mother and to have been responsible for her education this past year. I know she will be a bright star.

Here are some pics. My baby... is on her way to kindergarten and public school!

Baker 5

Finally an updated picture of our family. We were at Azul's piano recital in this picture too. Emil is 10 months, Azul age 7 and Nyla age 4.

Azul's Piano Recital

Here is a picture of Azul at his piano recital with his friend and fellow piano student Grant and teacher Pastor Luke.

He loves the piano and the Lord is blessing him to play beautifully at this point. Really hoping he will keep it up.

Too Long Since Last Post - Kid Updates

Okay it has been FOREVER since I posted. Life is chaotic... really chaotic. I will try to think of all the updates that I can but am sure I will still miss something.

Azul will be turning 8 in a few short weeks and is having a LEGO party. We got the idea after attending the Maker Faire in San Mateo last month. They had LEGOS spread all over the floor for kids to build with and kids just went wild! Azul is a tremendous fan of LEGOS so we decided to use it for his theme this year. He just finished 2nd grade with all A's and B's. He is still in piano class and had his first recital two weeks ago. He is about to start up his football season again this year (ughh) but I know that exposure to and experience with sports is healthy for him.

Nyla is still 4 and is preparing to enter kindergarten about which she is very excited! She is reading full on books now and adding and subtracting with 1's, 0's and 2's (i.e. 9+2, 6-1, etc). Last night I noticed that her two bottom middle teeth are wiggling so they will be out soon. She is so happy that she will start kindergarten minus 2 teeth!

Emil is now 10 months old and is a master of climbing onto of things and crawling full speed around the house. He screams, oh does he scream to get his point across and the attention of others. So far his vocabulary still only of mama and dada but he recognizes "no", "Azul" and "Nyla" and responds to those words. Occassionally he will stand unassisted but as soon as he realizes it "plop" down he goes and full speed ahead with crawling.