Sophia turned 4 this October and had a princess theme birthday party. She loves to play with Barbies and play dress up. Sophia started going to a new preschool this fall. She attends Campus Cooperative Preschool on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. She still goes to Tiny Tigers preschool at Urbana High School on Tuesday and Thursday.
Little Henry (Buddy Boy) turned 2 back in March and is also going to Tiny Tigers with Sophia. He LOVES to play with skid steers (bobcats) and any other heavy machinery toy. And all capital LOVE is an extreme understatement of how much he loves to play with them. Both kids love to go out on the farm and see the cows. They are actually really good at helping feed the calves.
One really cool thing about living in a campus town is Sophia and Henry get to participate in research studies on campus. They have each been in 4 or 5 studies.
Big Henry is still busy managing the U of I dairy farm. We get to go out and see him at work some days. He was able to take off a couple weekends this summer so we could take little trips. We took the kids to the Museum of Science and Industry and Lincoln Park Zoo this summer. They had a really good time. We didn't really do a whole lot vacationwise.
We have been doing a lot of activities with the moms group I joined right after we moved here. I am the co-leader and have some responsibilities that have been keeping me busy. Which is nice. I have been experimenting with pie recipes and still baking bread and other sweet treats. This summer, Grace stayed with us so she could do a project for school. It was great having her here. It was fun to practice cooking Vegan food. I must admit, I enjoyed the challenge, but it is nice to cook meat and use butter and cheese ;).
Henry and I celebrated our 5th anniversary this year and took a weekend trip to Indianapolis. We stayed with Henry's sister and brother in law and went out in Indy with them (their anniversary is the day before ours). It was nice to be able to do something for our anniversary.
We wish everyone a very happy and healthy holiday season and new year.
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