The Bryan Family

We’ve been having problems with Liam leaking through his diapers at night.  We’ve used our cloth diapers and disposable ones and he still wakes up wet.  I heard some great things about using wool covers over cloth diapers especially for night time.  They can run about 30-45 dollars a piece.  So I decided to try and make some with some old wool sweaters Neale and I had.  I can’t find the tutorial I used to make these, but this one has the same idea.  We’ll see how well they work.  I am also going to try to make these as well as soon as I can find more wool sweaters.

We were able to spend New Years with Neale’s sister and her family this year.  Ellie had a great time playing with her cousin Max.  (She still talks about it.)

Story time with cousin Max. 

Max trying to hold Liam.

It was so nice outside, so we had to try out Max’s slide.

All ready for bed!

Ellie, Max, and Liam

Happy Holidays!

Liam sitting up.  He’s getting so big!

All the grandkids 

All my siblings (plus spouses)

My parents with the 5

Our annual sister photo

The Bryan 4

All 19

We decided to wait a little while with Liam before we introduced him to solid foods.  I think we started too early with Ellie.  Since Ellie had such a bad experience with rice cereal, we skipped over the cereal and went right to the yummy stuff…sweet potatoes! Liam really enjoyed it! 

Each year my family all gathers at my parent’s house in St. Louis around Christmas.  We have recently added on a new tradition of going ice skating while we are all there together.  This year Ellie was finally able to do it…she was so excited to go ice skating!!

 

There she goes…with Daddy on one side and my niece Katie on the other side.

Liam enjoying the show.

My nieces and nephews (minus 2).

I guess Liam got a little bored, so he decided to take a little nap.

Here is what we did this week

Letter I:

do -a-dot Ii

Our I craft - iguana

Our I collage with insects

Ellie used the do a dots to dot the uppercase I’s blue and the lowercase i’s purple.

Having fun with ice.  We scooped and poured and played until our hands became too cold.  I then sat the bucket aside so they could watch the ice melt.

Igloo:

We painted igloo shapes white, and then cut out a door for our little eskimo.  We then glued the igloos down on blue paper and and painted snow all around the igloo.

Ovals:

Ellie decided she wanted to make balloons with her ovals.

Ellie painted ovals then glued them down to make an oval collage.

Here are some more ideas for the letter I:

I is for Igloo and more cold weather fun by 1+1+1=1.

I is for inchworm by Confessions of a Homeschooler.

She really enjoyed decorating the tree this year.  She was really excited to see all of her ornaments from her past Christmases. 

Liam had fun watching as well!

~photo by Ellie