Category: Cali

    Cali Award

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    Cali is a major go getter. If she wants something she finds out a way to make it happen. Mostly if she wants to do something she just practices until she can do it… jump rope, skipping, whistling, shoe tying, splits, singing, reading, writing, bike riding, pumping on swings, …. those are the ones off the top of my head. She sets her mind to it and gets it done. LOVE HER.

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    100th Day

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    Cali is still loving kindergarten! and her reading is really taking off.

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    and when we went for teacher conferences Benji showed me that his art was out on the Wall of Fame! All of the kids are doing well in school!

     

    Categories: Benji, Cali

    Christmas Concert

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    The kids LOVED singing at school on Friday! Cali is a real performer. Pack was excited to learn all the words to the Grinch and Benji was embarrassed because they had to sing Santa Baby. and I was a very poor photographer with lots of babies hanging on my arms…

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    Categories: Benji, Cali, Packer

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY CALI

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    CALI HAD A GREAT BIRTHDAY! It was her Golden birthday! We played hard all day. We opened presents and drank chocolate milk. We spent most of the day at Micah’s baptism and the luncheon afterwards. Then Grandma and Grandpa came to give Cali a present. At 6:00 all of the Netty cousins came over for a PARTY. Doggie Doggie, Cheep Cheep, and the Princess Guess Who were the main games. Cake and presents and a movie… It was fun.

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    She’s 6 years old.  She loves school and reading and writing.  She’s usually a social butterfly.  She’s independent and pushes herself to keep up with her big brothers.  She’s my best helper with the younger kids. She hasn’t thrown a BIG fit since we started the marble jar last month. She still loves Mommy time!

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    End of Fall SOccer!

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    I LOVE LOVE LOVE SOCCER but WE HAVE OUR SATURDAYS BACK!

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    Benji’s team was undefeated. They have been together for a long time now and they are a lot of fun.

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    Benji is a good shielder and passer. He likes Defense.

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    Cali is pretty aggressive. They had a young team this year so it was a rough, lose every game season. But She and Mia have fun out there. Cali always volunteers for everything – take a break? play defender? Stay in? – doesn’t matter what coach asks – she’ll says she’ll do it. Go Lightning Crashers!

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    Look at how close Packer is to the goal! and I was proud of him for going to the middle to wait for the pass. They are learning. I got to go to Packer’s game without any kids on the last game so I got lots of good pictures of him:

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    Categories: Ben, Benji, Cali, General, Packer

    Cute Cali

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    These are some old photo shoot pictures of Cali and Rose and Mia that I never posted. A friend wanted them to model some clothes from her boutique store:

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    Cali loves to read. She just started the Baggy Book program at school and she hurries home each day to read it to me. She also enjoys saving her snack and bringing it home to show all of us. She is doing really well in kindergarten so far. She enjoys the singing and the social aspects. She does come home quite tired though! Cali is still a great help with the other kids – she often checks on Millie for me and gets her up from her afternoon naps.

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    These sisters are BEST friends. They play SOO WELL together and it makes me so HAPPY. They can play for hours. They don’t fight (too much). They work out their differences. I hope it lasts forever.

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    and I love this picture of Cali because she is a sporty little soccer player but she wanted her hair a certain way and insisted on wearing her sparkly shoes!

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    Categories: Cali

    Kindergarten!

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    This Cali Girl was ready for Kindergarten! She has watched her brothers for years and she knew just what to expect.

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    She has been SOO tired after school. Like almost in a daze. She seems a bit overwhelmed with it all. There are about 30 kids in the class! Isn’t that too many?

    But she says she loves it and she is already soo close to reading. She brought home her first school library book yesterday and sounded out every word. The girl does not give up 🙂

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    Fishing with Grandpa

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    On Friday the 3 oldest kids got to go fishing with their Grandpa and their Dad! They went to Deer Creek and fished from the boat. This was Cali’s first time going. They got a few nibbles but Grandpa Netty was the only one that caught one. The kids weren’t too sad since they had talked about bringing one home for dinner and none of them wanted to do that. They loved the boat and loved the attention.
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    Categories: Benji, Cali, Nettesheim, Packer

    Girls Night

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    We couldn’t let the boys have all the fun so I took the 3 girls out on the town while they camped. We went shopping for FROZEN shirts and we found them! We actually found too many shirts so the girls got spoiled! It was fun to spend time with the girls and watch a girl movie and snuggle and stay up late. I love my kids.

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    Categories: Cali, Jana, Millie, Rose

    Cali Lost a TOOTH

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    Cali lost a tooth on Sunday. It’s her first one… She was biting open the SPOT IT game and she broke it loose. It was super wiggly and sore and then 24 hours later it came out during dinner time!. It’s a little early. The new tooth is not ready to come in but…. She’ll be toothless on the bottom middle for a while. SHE was EXCITED though for the TOOTH FAIRY to come!! and SHE came and we have a happy toothless gum chewing with a dollar in her pocket 5 year old 🙂

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