Carey on November 30th, 2009

This Saturday, with much help from Gabbi, we got our decorations down from the garage attic and started putting up our Christmas decor, starting with the tree. While we decorated the tree Isabel played inside the tree box…for a little while anyway. Gabbi and I worked on “fluffing” the branches while Gino did the lights. [...]

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Carey on November 29th, 2009

Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you – Uncle Jerry! Happy Birthday to you! It was good to talk with you on Thanksgiving and then again on your birthday. We hope you had a great day with family! We love you and miss you – Gino, Carey, and Isabel

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Carey on November 27th, 2009

Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you – Marci! Happy Birthday to you! Sorry we missed talking with you yesterday, we hope you had a wonderful time at your mother’s. Sorry to hear that you have to work on your birthday, let alone it’s Black Friday! Hopefully, you’ll get to [...]

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Carey on November 26th, 2009

This year was a special one for the Espinoza household; we had guests for Thanksgiving! Our friend Dale and my cousin Gabbi! We had a early dinner with all the fixings and then spent the remainder of the evening playing Wii and watching movies. Good times! I had to use the small camera, so I’m [...]

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Carey on November 19th, 2009

I haven’t added any of Isabel’s cutting projects since April but we have done them! We worked with the scissors yesterday and she seems to do o.k., she just needs more practice, practice, practice! She worked on a spiral cut, a zig-zag cut, and other “turning of the paper” projects. A few times she had [...]

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Carey on November 16th, 2009

Today, Isabel and I played her word building game (for the first time – we usually just play the matching game) and she did really well. She looked at each picture and sounded out the words all by herself. She only needed my help with a few of them. I was really pleased with her [...]

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