Carey on November 30th, 2009

This Saturday, with much help from Gabbi, we got our decorations down from the garage attic and started putting up our Christmas decor, starting with the tree. While we decorated the tree Isabel played inside the tree box…for a little while anyway. Gabbi and I worked on “fluffing” the branches while Gino did the lights. [...]

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Carey on November 26th, 2009

This year was a special one for the Espinoza household; we had guests for Thanksgiving! Our friend Dale and my cousin Gabbi! We had a early dinner with all the fixings and then spent the remainder of the evening playing Wii and watching movies. Good times! I had to use the small camera, so I’m [...]

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Carey on November 19th, 2009

I haven’t added any of Isabel’s cutting projects since April but we have done them! We worked with the scissors yesterday and she seems to do o.k., she just needs more practice, practice, practice! She worked on a spiral cut, a zig-zag cut, and other “turning of the paper” projects. A few times she had [...]

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Carey on November 16th, 2009

Today, Isabel and I played her word building game (for the first time – we usually just play the matching game) and she did really well. She looked at each picture and sounded out the words all by herself. She only needed my help with a few of them. I was really pleased with her [...]

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Carey on November 14th, 2009

Last night after Gabbi got home from school she sat down to listen to her iPod, which got the curiosity of Isabel. It was to cute not to take a picture…Enjoy! Selecting a song; they choose David Crowder Band. …I love this picture.

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Carey on November 9th, 2009

While Daddy was in Texas visiting Uncle Ron. Uncle Ron and family sent home with Daddy these cool blinking glasses for Isabel! She’s got the hair; she’s got the shades; all she needs now are band-mates for her rock-star band!

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