The Jones Girls

Grandma (my mom) got the girls the CUTEST Christmas dresses for Christmas.  I dressed the girls up in their dresses from Grandma and they looked beautiful!! 

I had purchased Potato Heads for the triplets and Hungry Hippo Game for Savannah for presents that Santa would give them at the party. 

We drove down to Tustin – to my friend Mary Stechman’s house, who is a member of my Multiple Moms Club.  She hosted this year’s Children’s Christmas party at her house. 

Santa was out on the patio meeting and greeting all of the children.   Each of my girls sat on Santa’s lap and Santa gave them their wrapped present.   Then each girl told Santa what they wanted…each of them wanted a Reindeer!!  LOL!!

Mary has a chicken coupe in her backyard and she has 4 beautiful chickens.  I have never seen such a clean chicken coupe!!   The girls LOVED seeing and watching the chickens.

There was all sorts of yummy Christmas cookies, hot cocoa and gourmet coffees for all of us.

Mary’s house had a really neat Safari themed bathroom and my girls were just enthralled with it.    It was quite the bathroom!!

We stayed a few hours and really had a wonderful time playing with all of the kids (many sets of twins, we had the only triplets there) and I enjoyed chatting with the moms.

Tonight Cliff picked up Nanny Feli to watch the girls and she spent the night.  Cliff and I have a date night!!   It was Numatic Engineering’s Christmas party in Van Nuys.

It was pouring tonight and made it stressful for our drive up to Van Nuys.    We were greeted by all of Cliff’s colleagues.  There was a professional photographer there and we got a nice portait done for Cliff and I.

They served us Filet Minon for dinner.    Cliff was presented with his 20th anniversary gift with Numatic – a very nice Army Swiss watch.   He was so proud and I am so proud of him too.     Congradulations honey!!

After we left Michelle’s Bakery, we ran home to change and get ready for Savannah’s school Christmas performance.  It was a chilly night so we all bundled up.  Rosanne joined us.

I was so excited!  This was our little girl’s first school performance and I could wait.    It was a wonderful performance and production.

The Kindy Kids stole the hearts of everyone and was the favorite hands down.  Savannah and all of the Kindy Kids wore their cute PJ’s and brought a Teddy Bear.  This was the them for what they sang..  “Me and   Bear” and “Santa Clause is coming to town”.

The PTA had a beautiful table of all sorts of delicious goodies along with hot chocolate, coffee and even mistletoe for sale!!    We bought some stuff…of course we wanted to contribute to the PTA.

I organized a fun cupcake decorating event at Michelle’s Bakery for La Habra Moms club.  We had a huge turnout and about 45 showed up!!    My sister Rosanne came with us to join in the fun. 

Michelle’s Bakery was so gracious to us.  They had a private room set up with tables full of all kinds of decorations, icings, chocolates, etc.   We each got a cupcake kit and all of us had a blast decorating our cupcakes.   Each table had an attendant to help us.  There were candy canes and chocolates for us to enjoy while we were decorating at each table.

They had cocoa and coffee for all of us as well.  What a wonderful experience!!

I am doing flash cards with Savannah to help her learn to spell and sound out letters and words.    Tonight I video taped her reading her flash card words.   This was the first time I presented these word flash cards to her.   She can read 2o words now.   She is also sounding out words and learning how to read words such as my, by, see, etc.  This is what she can read now:

White
Brown
Pink
Red
Purple
Yellow
Orange
Gray
Blue
Black
Green
The
Am
We
Have
Is
Little
I
A
To

Maryssa is pigeon toed.    Her pediatrician referred her to an orthopedic doctor.  We met with him today.  

He evaulated her and said her knees and ankles are straight and the hps are causing the legs to move inward causing the pigeon toe.  He said that babies that are born from a mutliple birth can result in hip displasia.  Hip displasia is when then hips form outside of the sockets and require surgery to correct.  He took Xrays to check her hips.   Thank goodness the Xrays showed no hip displasia.

 He said in the old days they used to use braces and special inserts in the shoes.   They have done studies which show that they braces and special shoes don’t help.    So no braces or special shoes for Maryssa.   He said she will hopefully grow out of it but if she is still pigeon toed she will learn to  acclimate herself to it.

This week is Parent Teacher Conference at Savannah’s school.    This means all of the kids get out of school early all week long and they get Friday off.    Savannah’s late bird class has been moved to early bird and that has been a real pain.  Friday I took all of the girls to Disneyland and we had lots of fun!!

I met with Savannah’s teacher today.    Savannah knows all of her alphabet by site and sound.    She knows most of her shapes except for cylinder, rectangle and cone.  I will work with her on those shapes.    She can count to 26 and she will be required to count to 30 by the end of Kindy so I would say she is doing great with her numbers seeing that she has only been in school for a couple of months now.

Savannah knows how to spell and read most “word” colors.     She also knows her colors by sight too.

The teacher says she is doing great in school and to keep up the good work!!  I am so proud of my sweet little Kindergartner!!