"All I Want For Christmas . . ."

Sunday morning during breakfast Gabe lost his first tooth. He has another one working its way out as we speak. I know I just said this about Emily, but how is it possible that he is old enough to loose teeth already?

Baking 101

Emily baked her first batch of brownies last Thursday-all by herself! She read the directions, measured, poured, mixed, baked and frosted a pan of very delicious chocolate fudge brownies. And, more importantly, she even cleaned up after herself. Her next conquest-cookies!

Squirrels In My Pants!

If you're wondering what we do for entertainment around the Hatchitt house, this is it.

We like to watch the Disney cartoon "Phineas and Ferb" on occasion. In this episode, one of the characters has an unfortunate encounter with some squirrels. The resulting song is one of Jonathon's favorite dance numbers. If you watch closely, you can see that he is actually trying to mimic the dancing characters on screen.

Pretty, pretty princess(es)!

Have you ever seen a lovelier group of princesses? I think not! Emily and Makayla recently celebrated their November birthdays together at a princess themed extravaganza!

Pink was our predominate theme, hence the strawberry cupcakes with pink frosting.


We decorated our dining room with pink tulle and white Christmas lights for a fairy tale look.

And then we partied! Okay, really all we did was eat and open presents but the girls had a great time.

Trying To Catch Up

Here's a quick recap since my last post: Chris returned home from Maryland after being gone for a month for National Guard training. Here is a picture of what he learned about while he was gone.

Emily turned 8 years old on November 4th. The saying "time flies" doesn't even come close to describing how I feel when I look at her. How can she be 8 already?

Gabe started Taekwondo at the local YMCA. Here he is practicing his flying side kick. He gets to test for his second belt (and break his first board) in two weeks.

AHGGGG!

I'm not sure why, but blogger does not seem to want to load my recent photos on our blog. Needless to say, I'm a bit frustrated at the moment. Hopefully, we'll have new pictures and an update tomorrow!