Thanksgiving

Our main dinner was at Steve's parents this year. We ate well!

I was able to snap a few pictures of the cousins playing (Brian, Jesse & Myah).

Afterwards, we headed to Springfield for some family time with my family and some much needed shopping. We were crazy and did the Black Friday shopping. We started at 4:30 am, but we did seem to get most of our Christmas shopping done this weekend!

Kindergarten Fall Sing

Myah had her Kindergarten Fall Sing.
Her and the other 59 kindergarteners sang their hearts out!
It was so cute watching them!

Myah's Journal

Myah's teacher gave us some ideas to work on with her, so to help her not become bored.

She has loved everything we have thrown at her! Piano lessons (She tries to practice every day without being told!), a handwriting workbook (ok, that one was my idea), and a journal. The journal has been where I have seen her biggest independent improvement. The first entry, I had to tell her about capitals and periods and help her with handwriting and spelling things. This most recent entry, she spelled everything on her own and I didn't have to help with any of her handwriting either! Her sentences are just awesome....again, I'm just so proud of her!

Myah Is Reading!

I just had to brag about Myah reading...

She is so cute. It just amazes me that this little 5 year old can read Junie B. Jones - grade level of 2.7.

I just think she is so amazing! I am so proud of her!

When we brought her home, the doctor told us that she would need lots of stimulation since she had a flat head from being in the crib too much at the orphanage. I think we may have over stimulated her...LOL!

Fall Leaves

Finally, we had a decent day to get outside and play in the leaves!

Halloween

The kids had a great time...

Jesse handed out candy with the youth group at church for a while, then joined Myah Trick-or-Treating. Always ending up at Grandma's for a big bag of goodies!

We didn't go all out on costumes this year...but it's what they wanted, so we did these...kinda cute and simple all rolled into one!

More Updates...

We also celebrated my mom's birthday on October 3rd, even though it was October 14Th...
I made my first homemade pie with meringue! We also went to the Arthur Pumpkin Patch and froze, but we had fun!