Barnyard Moosical

Last Thursday, all the kindergarten classes presented their annual play. This year's theme was the cutest musical with cows, pigs, chickens, and goats. They all did such a great job! You could tell they all worked really hard. The set and costumes were adorable too.


My little pig and chicken!

And she's off!!

Ellen began walking on January 18th. I guess she just decided that she wanted to, so she started doing it. Now she pretty much walks everywhere.


I remember reading somewhere that personality is established by the age of 6. Oh, I beg to differ. Ellen is such a feisty little thing. She tries to hang in there with the big kids, and she is quick to let her feelings known if someone crosses her or takes a toy from her. She screams really loud! She loves to be in the middle of everything. Her laugh is contagious, as is the laugh of every baby. Can't get much sweeter than that. She is loving as well; she loves to hug and kiss. And she loves her mommy! If she's tired, she wants no one else! And, is she ever into everything! This girl can pull out things from drawers and cabinets and then put them somewhere else. The other kids have learned to store their precious things out of reach! Whenever something is dropped, her phrase is "Uh-oh, Mom-ma!"
Vivian still loves to sing "Jingle Bells" and Ellen chimes in with the "hey!", although she gets a little ahead of herself. Likewise, whenever a prayer is being said, she starts shouting, "Amen!" several times before it is finished.
Oh, and no more bottles!!
Thank you, God, for this sweet angel!

Basketball

My computer was down for over 2 weeks after becoming infected with a virus. Luckily, all my pictures were saved. We do have most of them backed up, but there are a few recent ones that I have not saved to hard copy. I have figured out that being a computer geek really pays; those jokers charge $65/hour for labor!

William's basketball season tipped off on January 11th. He really loves playing and he is improving with each game.

Posing with the star before the big game.

Cheering on the team?

In action!


Enjoying the game with MawMaw.

The weekend

Billy got home Friday night from California. Yeah! Saturday, while Billy took all the kids for William's basketball pictures and to watch Walker's first basketball game, I took Vivian to Chick-fil-a for a friend's birthday party.


Here's my brave girl about to give a "high five" to the cow. She was trembling the entire time the cow was present.


After a beautiful Lord's Day service, we headed to Grandma's house for a belated Phillips Christmas.




Here's 2nd cousin Devin in the middle of William and Henry. (He's 6 months older than the boys.)


Macy with Aunt Susan and Uncle Mark

A good day

The kids had a snow day yesterday, although it didn't snow that much, and Alabama won the National Championship! Billy and his dad have been in sunny and warm southern California since Tuesday for the game, while we've been here in the deep freeze!

Ballerinas

Granddaddy Bill gave the girls new dance costumes for Christmas. Here they are before their dance classes this week! Rebecca's class is on Monday afternoons and Vivian's is on Tuesdays. Vivian loves it so much that she used to be mad at Rebecca because Rebecca's class is the day before hers. She now says she's happy for Rebecca, but she cannot wait until her turn! She was so funny yesterday as we were driving there, just squealing with excitement. "We're almost there, Mommy! We're almost there!"

William's glasses

Even though you might have noticed in the holiday photos, I forgot to mention that William now wears glasses. A couple of months ago, there was an eye screening at school, and William brought home a form stating that he had significant hyperopia. We were very surprised as we had no idea that he had any problem at all; he certainly had no signs or symptoms that we were aware of. So, I made him an appointment with an optometrist and soon discovered that his eyesight was pretty bad. The doctor does not think that he will "outgrow" his condition due to the severity, and said that he also had some amblyopia and was glad that we were able to determine that there was a problem and get him in before it got worse. William does great with his new glasses; he is very conscientious about wearing them. I guess that goes along with his OCD personality. He was a little self-conscious at first; it took a while for him to let me take his picture. I think he looks very handsome, don't you?