February

Here are the girls doing some learning at home. Karis loves to be part of our homeschool day, so I usually give her a simplified version of what the girls are doing. She often grabs a paper and a pencil and asks "how do you write an E?"

These girls love their Dadda and are always happy to see him at the end of their day (and so am I)!

Reading books together

Since Ella often reads to the younger 2, Juliette loves to assume the big sister role and "read" to Karis. She has a couple of Karis' favorite books memorized.

Our sweet neighbor delivered the girls some Valentine's day treats.

This picture may offend some Canucks fans. The girls are dressed in their Canucks outfits, complete with Minnie Mouse ears and shoes.

Back in October, Spencer wore a Montreal Canadians jersey while we took the girls trick or treating. At one point Spencer was wearing Karis' Minnie Mouse ears along with the Canadians jersey. Somebody we passed on the sidewalk commented "the Minnie Mouse ears suit your jersey". Thankfully Spencer isn't a huge Canadians fan and got a good laugh out of this.

Different personalities

This video highlights our girls' differing personalities. Ella is very into her book and serious about reading to her sisters. Juliette is in her own world, clowning around, and dumping water on her head.

Karis Counting

Juju's story

The girls love telling progressive stories after dinner. I wanted to get Juju's storytelling on video. We love how often she says "aannd". I also thought this story was very cute because the pig ends up in jail (just like Mr Toad from Wind in the Willows). 

More things they say...

The other day Ella pulled on our dining room curtains and the screw on the hook finally came off. We have been telling the girls to not pull on the curtains but it has been a hard habit to break.

I told Spencer what happened to the curtains when he got home from school. As we were all sitting around for dinner that night, this was our conversation:

Juliette - Dadda, do you notice the curtains are broken?

Dadda - yes, I heard what happened

J - do you want me to tell you who did it?

D - no thanks Juju, I already know who did it

J - ok, I won't tell you ... but ... it wasn't me, and it wasn't Momma, and it wasn't Karis, and it wasn't Dadda.

silence for about 30 seconds as Spencer and I tried to keep our laughter in. Juju was staring intently on Spencer to see if he had cracked this case. And then - 

J - it was Ella.

The girls played "band" the other day when their friend Moriah was over.

"We're all ready to go". The girls love getting ready all on their own in the morning. Hawaiian necklaces, gold clip-on earrings, and outfits picked to suit their tastes. It's always a hard choice for Juju between her zebra pants and her leopard pants.

We bought the girls some harmonicas and a wooden flute. Karis is quite good on the harmonica.

We got some use out of our balcony last week.

Karis loves the adorable bags Grandma Jo-Ann bought the girls. If you look closely they actually say the girls' names on them.

Grandpa Rob came over for dinner last Saturday and he and Juju blew out the candles together.

Yesterday was parent observation day at ballet. It's really cute to see the girls in their class. Video coming soon!

Videos

Here are some cute videos of the girls...

Ella and Juju made me a quilt while I was out for the day on Saturday. It is really cute!

A compilation of Karis cuteness.

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