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| The party continues at the Hull house-- Helen turned 6 on December 29! Helen is strong and smart, loves beauty, creates constantly. She writes sweet love notes to all of us, often tied up with pretty ribbons. She intuitively understands the way things (and people) work. |
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| Helen frosted her own birthday cake and put red sprinkles on it. |
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| Helen got a bird feeder and a field guide to birds for her birthday. The feeder has already attracted some fluffy black and gray juncos to our backyard. |
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| We went sledding on New Year's Eve. It was cold in the mountains, but very beautiful, with lots of fresh snow. Here's a photo of Abe going down a hill. |
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It's a good thing we took a photo of Gibson sledding with Brandan as this was the only time he got on a sled. After this, he refused to go. If you ask him if he had a good time sledding, he will give you an enthusiastic, "YES!" At least he has good memories. |
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| Helen is a little polar bear, sliding down hills, giggling about getting dumped in the snow, making snow angels and a snow fort. We think she ate her own weight in snow. Here she is playing in a snow fort. |
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| Back home, we settled in for New Year's night. We burned our 2010 calendar, sending the old year out in a short lived blaze of glory. |
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| This is the first year we let all the kids stay up playing games as late as they wanted. Gibson wasn't taking any chances and wore a bike helmet while we played Risk. Becky learned the hard way that it's best to stay out of the Middle East. |
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After Brandan achieved world domination (Abe gave him a good fight) we went to work on a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle our friends loaned us. We'll be working on this for a while longer. |
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| Sophie, our Scandinavian pacifist during Risk, flitted between the games and reading. Gibson fell asleep about 10 pm and Helen at 11 pm. We told Helen that she made it long enough to celebrate the New Year with Grandma and Grandpa in the Mountain Time Zone. |
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| Becky found some leftover sparklers in the cupboard which we lit at midnight. |
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| Today marked the end of an era as Gibson left nursery for Sunbeams. We've had at least one child in nursery continuously since 2004. Gibson's cute nursery leader organized a graduation ceremony complete with hats and certificates. Gibson wasn't sure he would like Sunbeams. "I'm going to be very noisy," he told us, but so far, he loves his new teachers. |
3 comments:
I'm glad some of your kids made it to midnight. All of us were asleep in our beds by the time it turned January 1st.
I love Helen's birthday presents. Spencer and I used to be big on birding too but the kids have distracted us from it for a season.
Looks like everyone had an enjoyable break from school.
Wow, I'm amazed that the kids made it so close to midnight! We loved the photo of Gibson's graduating class - they looked so sharp in their caps!
Happy Birthday Helen. So tell Gibson he stayed up long enough to celebrate the New Year with the Helm and Fairchild cousins in the central time zone. We wish you many blessings in the New Year. Love you all!!
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