Ward Christmas Party

Tonight we had our ward Christmas party. Sadie wasn't feeling well, so Rich stayed home with her. My kids loved the snowball fight.

As you can tell by Blake wearing his shorts it's not cold here yet and this activity is something that would only go over well in Southern California. Basically they threw balls of batting at each other. This kept them occupied the whole night.

Blake asked Santa for a Wii and a football. Santa told Blake he has an extra Wii at the North Pole that he exercises with.

Logan with Santa I have no idea what he said to Santa if he said anything at all. This is the first year Logan didn't cry sitting on Santa's lap.

Both the boys with Santa.

Leaves

So far we have had a very mild winter even for California. It wasn't until now that the leaves started falling off the tree. The kids love raking them up and playing in the leafs.

Logan is buried in a pile of leafs.

Big Blake

Blake and Logan

School Christmas Program

Tonight the kids had their school Christmas program. Logan had only been in school two days but we brought him anyways. Logan got ready in his classroom.

Logan watching Charlie Browns Christmas while waiting for the performance.

Putting his hat on.

Sadie already to watch her brothers sing.

On the phone again!

Logan's class was up first. He didn't want to get up on stage the morning class teacher had to stand by him to get him to stay.

The preschool.

Logan not cooperating during the song.

During the song he ended up crawling behind the kids on the stage until his teacher grabbed him and had Logan stand by her. He sang the end of the song. During the performance as we were watching Logan misbehave Rich and I were mumbling angry words about our kid. After the performance we picked up Logan and his teacher gave Logan praise, "He did such a great job!" There is always one kid and it happened to be ours. Logan is lucky to have such a patient teacher.

The next song was the first graders.

Here is Blake it looks like he is picking his nose, but he has his finger in his mouth because he is nervous.

The First graders.

Blake singing: Up on the Housetop.

Blake with his friends David and Dawson after the performance.

Blake with his deer in the headlights look.

Grandma Rauch's Birthday

Today is Grandma Rauch's Birthday. She has the same birthday as her good friend Linda Tuifua. So we went over to Linda's house this morning for a brunch with both our families to celebrate their birthdays.

This Summer we all went camping to Carpenteria Beach and Linda had these shirts made for everyone. On the back it says Carpenteria 2010 and every family name that was there. We were going to take a big group and family picture together all wearing our matching shirts. Well that never happened because not everyone was up their at the same time. So today we were going to take a Rauch family picture with our shirts on. Not everyone wore their shirts, so we just did our family picture.

But as you can tell we were not able to get one good family picture.

3The birthday girl Grandma Rauch. My kids love Grandma Rauch's walker! Sadie likes sitting on it and Grandma pushes her around. I love this picture of Grandma Rauch and Sadie. Happy Birthday Grandma! We love you!

Logan Preschool

The last six months Logan has been tested by the school district because of his delayed speech. The poor kid as seen the speech pathologist and the school psychologist many times. He was diagnosed with Auditory Processing Disorder and was place in a special day preschool. Luckily his preschool is at the same school Blake attends and I already knew his teacher. This is Logan on his first day of school.

Logan loves going to school with his teacher Mrs. Kim and playing with all his friends.

I am excited for Logan and he seems to be adjusting well to preschool. He goes everyday from 11:20-3:14. Logan's teacher is so nice and very patient with all the kids.

Logan at the Hospital

It's a very long story, but Logan had to go to the hospital for an MRI to check on his head size. Because of his age they had to admit him into the hospital and give him sedation so they could do the MRI. The night before Logan was only allowed four hours of sleep and couldn't eat. Lucky me I got the wonderful job of keeping him up all night. He did good, when he started to fall asleep we would do stuff like make brownies (before his no eat time), and play games on the computer. I took him to the hospital that morning and he was admitted into pediatric. He was so grumpy that morning from no sleep, but Logan loved watching tv in his room.

They gave him his medicine to help him fall asleep, Logan like to bury his face under the cover, I had to move the blankets so I could take his picture.

Here is Logan sound asleep right before we had to move him for his MRI. Well things didn't go as planed when we went to move him for the MRI he woke up and wouldn't go back to sleep. So after all that we couldn't get the MRI done because he was moving too much.

This is Logan after the meds acting like a drunk little boy which is what the medicine can do. He was funny, angry, and it was a little scary. He was so wobbly and couldn't control his body that he would try to sit up, but fall and bang his head on the bed. After they couldn't do the tests they let us go home and he was able to go back to sleep. It was a long night and day sadly with no results, but a crazy little boy.

Christmas Tree

Today we went and got our Christmas Tree. We had to get a small tree that we could put up on a table so Sadie and even Logan wouldn't take all the ornaments off. This is our little tree that we picked out. I love going and picking out a tree, but my family doesn't get as excited as I do.

Rich and Blake, they were so cute walking around together.