All Things Bright and Beautiful

It's a vacation day here at the Freeman home and the day has dawned bright and beautiful. The sun is gleaming through our windows and Kurt and I are enjoying a healthy breakfast after Day 1 of Week 3's workout.

Melissa has been busily cutting and doing an activity from the Friend. She's moved on to practicing the song she'll be singing with her class in Sharing Time next Sunday. She's standing over my shoulder right now, humming.

Nathan is in his chair singing the theme song to Jeopardy!. If I could ever get him to do it when the camera is on, I'll post it here. Adorable!

Kathryn has been on Nathan duty this morning while mom and dad got their workouts in. She's working on her project for G/T now.

Elizabeth has been bitten by the health bug and tried to go for a run this morning. She aborted when she discovered that the sunshine was deceptively warm in the window, but not so much outside. It is after all, February.

Emily swung in her swing and I'm sure laughed to herself while Kurt and I worked out in front of her. Weird grown-ups!!

She did want me to wish everyone a belated Happy Valentine's Day ~

And show off her latest trick ~ sitting!

Our Lovey!

Emily's progress is in a large part thanks to her terrific Physical Therapist, Wendy. Love this picture!!

Emily is working on sitting up these days. She still doesn't like tummy time at all, but we're meanies and try to get in a few minutes as often as we can. She's holding her head more steadily, and we're seeing improvement in her arms.

Emily seems to wait to show off her skills until Wendy comes. The last two weeks she's done things I've never seen her do. The girl is a Champ-i-on!

In other random family doings....

We didn't intentionally mean to upset Nathan, but putting Emily in HIS chair the other night, sure did the trick:

"MY CHAIR! MINE! MINE! MINE!" Nathan said in his very best jealous two-year-old brother voice.
Emily thought it was funny... what a smile!

So Nathan consoled himself with a cool swig of milk. No just kidding ~ this picture was taken at a different time, but he really did just go to the fridge, pull out the jug, take off the lid and go for a drink. Dad grabbed the camera fast enough to catch him. Better to have proof than to have stopped him in the first place, right??

If you're a regular reader, you know that dates are a big deal for us. Ok, for me (Mom, Maryhelen). So here are the cupcakes I made for Elizabeth's half birthday on the 29th of January. I took them to her dance team after school that day. My sincere apologies for not bringing enough. What was I thinking!!

Here's Liz (2nd from the left) ready to dance. The girls perform at the half of each of the boys' basketball games. They are awesome!

Nathan now has a vertical sleeping habit to add to his horizontal one, at least where the stairs are concerned:

At the end of the day, there's no better place to be than with daddy.