Friendship Award...

Eric came home from school on monday, and thanks to a dear neighbor brought him home from the bus because Abbey was still napping. Eric walked in the door saying "Mom, we have lunch on wednesday with the principle, your suppose to come." In my head I thought "What have you done now?!?" Well, it wasn't what i thought! Eric along with 2 other students in his class were awarded the "Friendship Award!"
It's amazing what a few months can do; some of you know that the school Eric was slotted to attended was over crowed and needed to move 27 students to a whole new school (4 days into the school year.) Eric was one of those students, and he wasn't happy about it. We had a rough couple weeks and had a meeting with his teacher. We all got on the same page and set goals for Eric, and I started helping in the class every other week!
Flash forward to today... I learned he was given the award from his teacher for going above and beyond, to show kindness in the class room and on the play ground! We are very proud to have a little man who cares about others! Eric has always had a great gift at being a good friend!



After lunch I was invited to stay for Eric's recess... Here's what he did! He even beat me at a four square game!

something other than Baabaa...

Stories and proof...

Every night Abbey hears this story and as you can see watching the video she loves it! It happens every night, and yes you read it right every night!




And as I said in and earlier post, I said that Abbey was caught standing but I wasn't quick enough for the camera... Well, not any longer! Insert evil laugh here...

9 months...

Updated: 1/3/12
~WEIGHT: 19.1 lbs (65%) 26 1/2 inchs

~Your sleeping through the night! Bed time is 7:45 (asleep by 8pm) and you wake up around 7am ish (depends on the day!)Even though the last two weeks you have been waking up around 10pm screaming.

~You are down to 4 bottles a day 5-6oz each

~You eat 3 solid meals

~You finally got your first tooth two day ago!

~You are wearing size 3 diaper’s

~You are wearing 6-12m clothing in most brands, but in others your in 12-18m clothing

~You are pulling yourself up on your knees, it's cute to see you peeking over the rails of your crib!

~You have pulled yourself up to standing just once, and just as mommy went to take a picture you sat down!

~You celebrated your first Christmas and New Years. Christmas was all about the lights and the tree for you. New Years you slept.

~You love to talk

~Your smile is infectious

~Your personality has really started to "pop," you are just so sweet!

~Every where we go we are stopped and everyone just cant stop saying “she’s so beautiful!”

Tea Party...

Like I said in the last post; Abbey got her first tea-set from Aunt Rene and Uncle Gary for Christmas. Well, it's already being put to good use!!!

Ethan played tea party with Abbey this morning...


Then melt a mommy's heart... Daddy played with Abbey. He set it all up and even tried the pretend lemonade!

Annual Pommer family Christmas...

Andrew and I have been hosting the Pommer Christmas for a few years now. We normally have it Christmas eve; but knowing Andrew's cousins were coming into town for a short time, we pushed back the celebration! For a few years I have done a turkey, which is never a mistake! But last year we switched it up and did a ham, not doing that again! This year we did a tri-tip steak, YUMMY! The next question was how are we going to get 11 adults in the same room to eat??? Well, we did it! With the dining table pushed as close as possible to the side, then our kitchen table on the other wall; I borrowed a small kids table from my friend Karla, and you will see the result further down in the pictures!
Now on to usher in a new year! 2011 was a great year in our house, I hope it was for yours also!
Table 1

Table 2

Table 3


Present time:


(the pictures of the boys turned out fussy)

Abbey got her first tea-set


Some favorite pictures from the night, not yet posted!

Update...

We were having some troubles with blogspot and our internet, so we went to http://thepommerfamily.wordpress.com/

Updates on the kiddos...

Eric:
Has lost 4 teeth since May. 2 just since December 1st; just in time to sing "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth!"
Eric turned 8; I can't believe it!

Ethan:
Is enjoying his pre-k class. And upon his last dentist appt. he's permanent bottom teeth are ready to push the baby teeth away. (insert mommy's sad face here)

Abigail:
Is almost 9 months, and has a tooth about to show itself (like within the next few days!)
Today I looked over and she had pulled herself up to standing but hasn't done it again, and I wasn't quick enough with the camera!

Andrew has the next 5 days off and we are enjoying his time off! Andrew took both boys up to the mountains yesterday for some inter-tubing, they had a blast! Tomorrow is our Pommer family Christmas! Looking forward to great family gathering and a wonderful tri-tip steak!