Ice Skating with Naomi

Snack shop

Poppi playing Snack Shop with Ainsley and Kaley. Kaley likes playing the shop keeper. her favorite thing to say is "what do you want to buy"....over and over and over

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Face painting

The girls realized that they could paint their faces with the water color pencils....and paint they did!

One minute she's a ballerina, the next- a robot

We received some gifts and before we could dispose of the cardboard boxes, Miss Ainsley swiped them and started working on her Robot suit. With daddy's help, she was able to parade around the house as a robot.

The Nutcracker is finally here

Poppi and Nana came to visit mid-December for our long awaited trip to SF to see SF Ballet's Nutcracker. The girls went to the ballet while one of the dad's car shopped and the other worked. Michael joined us later for dinner at Max's Opera House Cafe. This is going to be a hard act to follow....

Kaley wanted to hang an ornament on the Children's Tree in the Civic Center playground....so she did...

Ainsley ran into (literally) a friend from Sequoia, Gabrielle. It was fun for the girls to see one another all dressed up and in such a fancy place (War Memorial Operal House)

The excitement of the day was ooozzzing out of the Worthley girls. Ainsley, especially, loved our seats where she could sit on the edge of seat and rest on the railing while watching the dancers. It was such a memorable day. Hope to do it again in a couple of years.

Making Holiday Candy

It has become the family tradition to make holiday treats for our friends. This year, daddy and the girls worked on the project together. We learned that humidity really does make a difference in the outcome of divinity....three failed batches later :)

Kaley and her winter concert

Kaley sang three songs really nicely at the Winter concert. Her favorite was one in which she kept the beat by alternating claps between her hands and legs while singing "Hey Mama wee bear"....It was really exciting to see that she was able to get all the words out to the songs. It is rewarding to see her progress through speech. Here she is with Naomi.

Ainsley sings "You better watch out"

Ainsley's favorite Christmas song is "You better watch out, you better not cry". We were all working hard on getting the tree ready when Ainsley disappeared with the Christmas Tree Skirt. Soon she reappeared....wear...the tree skirt and singing "her song".

Making Placemats at Mary Clare's

The girls were invited over to Mary Clare's to make Christmas placemats and eat pizza. We have a really enjoyable night with the Davis family.

Kaley lost her first tooth

For a couple of weeks, Kaley has been commenting that she had a loose tooth, It was usually in "play". Then, last week, we noticed that Kaley's bottom tooth DID look like it was moving. I asked her if she fell at school. "No" was her answer. She then said she was excited about the tooth fairy coming. I had a feeling that this "loose" tooth was something that she was forcing so that the tooth fairy would come. I told her that the tooth fairy couldn't come yet, because Kaley wasn't on the tooth fairy's list because she was a bit young to loose a tooth. The next day, I happened to glance in her mouth and noticed that her gum was swollen and it looked like something "white" was popping through. Well, things progressed quickly and Thursday, we made a quick trip to Joanne's for fabric for Kaley's tooth fairy pillow. Friday, the tooth was a' hanging and I was a' sewing. Kaley did not eat much Friday or Saturday and finally today, she was munching salad and.....the tooth popped out. For the next couple of hours, Kaley kept the tooth in place, but wouldn't talk. Finally, she was coughing and the tooth was out for good. She spit it out and placed in my hand and...smiled:)

Halloween 07

Here are some photos of the girls at Halloween. Ainsley was Pipi and Kaley was a mermaid. We had dinner with the Skows, Wakefields, Jellinghaus' and Davis' at our house first, then we all hit the street. We missed the Rapelas as they were out of town. We look forward to next Halloween with them and also Baby W (akefield) will be here for the holiday and festivities.

Mary Claire as a butterfly, Sydney as Hannah Montana and Ainsley as Pipi.
Kaley as a Mermaid and our neighbor Skyler, as Ariel
Kaley and Jordie as Cinderella

Jumping in Leaves

At dinner tonight, we were talking about all the things we did today- here's a run down of Saturday:

Ice Skating w/Skows

Playing at Civic Park

Grocery store

Lunch

Ballet dancing

Visit from Melody

Mary Claire came over

Sydney and Jordie also came over

When Mary Claire, Syd and Jordie were here, they had a tea party w/oranges and wheat thins, played fairies and jumped in the leaves.

Ice Skating

Today, Saturday, we took the girls ice skating with The Skows. The Gillettes, De Credicos and Erik and Roxy were there as well. Ainsley had a good time and was really comfortable on the ice. After about an hour of skating with Michael, she decided to branch out on her own. Kaley was quite content watching from the side.....she said maybe she'll try later.

Hard drive is replaced- Tree Lighting Ceremony

Well, I haven't been sooo good about putting our photos up (once again). Big bummer, too, being as our hard drive crashed and we lost all of our photos. Thank goodness we have the blog as some are captured there. Our friend, Erik, explained that there are two types of people in the world- Those who back up....and....Those who will. I guess after our little experience, we fall into the later category.



Anyway, we met our Tuffo relatives(Uncle Tony, Aunt Jane, Michelle, Mark, Kelly and Kai) at the annual Macys Tree Lighting Cermony yesterday. The Jersey Boys performed, as did the SF Boys Choir. The ceremony opened with a large Christmas present on stage. Out of the present popped a Cirque du Soleil performer from Kooza. We had a really nice spot next to the tree- It was nice to share it with the Tuffos!