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Happy belated Valentine's Day! We had a fun weekend. Brynn was able to decorate a box for her valentines at school. They had their party on Friday.



  
Clara playing

On Saturday I had reserved a time slot at the Plains Art Museum to take Brynn's seven-year pics and Clara's six-month pictures.













Pictures are OVER!

Clara had her six-month check-up a week ago and is healthy and growing well! She weighs 14 lbs which puts her in the 16th percentile for weight and she is in the 44% percentile for length. I would have thought the opposite for height and weight. She is working on sitting up all by herself and can do so unassisted for short periods of time. No toothies yet. Just in the past week she has been more receptive to her baby food/cereal, so hopefully that continues. She sure loves to be around big sister and always is laughing and smiling at her.



On Saturday night Brynn and I went to a West Fargo and Sheyenne High Schools production of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. It was so much fun. The cast did an excellent job. The orchestra played and were spot on as well. The set also looked amazing. We partook in some of the homemade concessions at intermission and they were so tasty. We saw one of Brynn's old preschool teachers/baby-sitter there too.

Ready to head out.





Lumiere stole the show for sure. 

Brynn and Belle 



Sunday night Grandma Holly came up to stay, so Dana and I took her up on her offer to baby-sit and went out for Valentine's Day. 
We're excited to be out.

Tonight we had Brynn's parent-teacher conferences. She had a good report from Mrs. Stewart. She said Brynn is well liked by the other students and is respectful in class and is a gem! There were some areas that Brynn should keep working on, like organization and some math and reading comprehension skills, but overall she is a good student and doing well in first grade. Mrs. Stewart said she is still reading at a level which would be where they're at toward the end of the year.

I am still laughing at this video I took after supper tonight. Brynn was belting out "Noel," and I just had to capture some of it; she was really getting into it. The camera starts shaking a bit in the middle - that is me laughing. She didn't know I was recording her. Not sure if she misses Christmas or where the Christmas tune came from...enjoy! ;-)    Noel

Comments

carrington said…
Nice job on the photo shoot Tara! Ha - Brynnie cracked me up with her rendition of 'Noel'! Love the whole blog post!
February 17, 2015 at 10:44 AM
Anonymous said…
Love the tutu's! The girls are getting so big, too fast.
February 17, 2015 at 11:45 AM
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