Our Little Dancer

Madison has been taking dance lessons for a few years now. Today was a parent observation day at her studio, and we were able to watch our little dancers and the progress they are making. Of course, I think she did great! Just wanted to share some photos and a brief clip of one of her beautiful bar exercises.

A few new hobbies

So, we have been saying since birth that Hudson looks like a football player. Well, now he is acting like one. One of his new favorite hobbies is to put buckets, bowls, or pretty much anything big enough onto his head, then runs around crashing into things. Yes, that's right, he does this for fun....and laughs the entire time he's doing it. He also has discovered how fun it is to hang....this is great at the park, but the only problem is he tries to do this on unstable objects...like our chairs. So, maybe we were right in thinking he was going to be a football player. If not that, maybe a stunt man!

Below are two videos of Hudson's new hobbies.

Madison is 5!

Our sweet, baby girl turned 5 today....where has the time gone? 5 just sounds way too old! It seems like yesterday that she joined our family, and yet it is hard to remember life without her. She is such an amazing, special part of our family. What a year she has had. Here are a few highlights and accomplishments:

• She learned how to do a cartwheel and a bridge
• She can pump herself real high on a swing, and still loves to swing
• She can count to 115
• She has learned to read simple words and loves to spell and write the words she knows...about 25!
• She performed in her second dance recital, and did a tap and ballet dance
• She continues to be giving and kind to her friends. She still enjoys giving away her toys
• Her favorite color currently is purple
• She also still loves to play with her dolls, do arts and crafts, read books, dance and sing and watch movies...I don't think there is a favorite at the moment
• She is very insightful and doesn't miss anything we say, nor does she forget...If you say you will do something with her, for her...you better follow through!
• She has elaborate conversations and has always spoken very well...however she still has a few words that she mispronounces that we love: photum album (photo album), upslidedown (upside down), extructions (instructions), Duck Ella (Lake Ella), paterin (pattern), callepittar (caterpillar).

We are all so blessed by her each and everyday. To celebrate this 5th year of life we had a gymnastics birthday party yesterday. She decided that she wanted a purple, turquoise, and green cake. So, after Halloween trick-or-treating, I got busy making frosting and created a special cake for my princess. Thankfully it held up well and tasted great too! After a fun-filled party, thanks to Daddy, she spent the afternoon playing with her new toys and watching one of her new movies. This morning she woke up and opened the rest of her presents, and then put on her new dress, made by my friend, Janay. When she was asked what she wanted to eat for her birthday meal she said, "a taco", so after church we went out to lunch with friends for some Mexican. After watching another new movie, Brian surprised us by telling us to go get our nails done together. This was Madison's first time getting her nails done in a salon, and she thought she was really something special!

It was a wonderful birthday weekend, for a wonderful big girl!

Happy 5th Birthday Madison

Here is a slide show of the weekend!

Happy Halloween

Well, it was a trip to Oz this Halloween for the Mosier family. Dorothy followed the yellow brick road and found the Tin Man, Cowardly Lion and the Wicked Witch. Luckily, Dorothy saved Toto from the Witch, after getting oiled up, the Tin Man got a heart, the Lion found some courage.....we think from the two lollipops he had, and everyone got plenty of candy. We were also joined by a vampire, Curious George, The Man in the Yellow Hat, a little Dorothy in training, and a Sparkly Fairy. It was a wonderful Halloween in our neighborhood.

I love this holiday!

Below is a slide show of our adventure Halloween night and our visit to the pumpkin patch.

There is also a video of Dorothy singing a very special song.