Our little gymnast

Today was Claire's medal ceremony at US Gold Gymnastics. She has been attending that class once a week on Wednesday morning since August.
She loves it and I have to admit she is really good at it. Here are a few videos of the event. I will let you be the judge of it...

Happy Mother's Day

Today is Mother's Day and I am so blessed to be the Maman of two beautiful daughters. They are the joy of my life and Mike and I are so thankful to have them in our lives.

I love them with all my heart...

Je souhaite aussi une tres Bonne Fete des Meres a ma Maman !

A Mother's Love

What is a Mother's love?
It is something that is very, very special.
It is something that no one can really explain.
It's something that is made up of much deepdevotion, joy, pain and sacrifice.
It is endless and unselfish and it endureswhatever may come.
It is full of hopes, dreams, tears and pleasure.
Nothing can ever destroy it or take thatspecial love away.
It is very patient and forgiving.
A Mother's love is a lifelong commitmentto selflessness.
More often than not, it requires much moregiving than receiving.
But it is something that is given with delight,gratitude, enthusiasm and much satisfaction.
A Mother's love never fails or falters eventhough the heart is breaking.
It is always believing when all the rest of theworld is condemning.
A Mother's love is a splendored miracle that mancannot understand.
It is something that cannot be measured,for it has no beginning or no end.

Happy Mother's Day Tea

(Don't forget to turn off or pause the music on the left before watching to the videos)

Today I was invited to Claire's class for a Mother's Day Tea. They put on a little show with most of the songs they had learned throughout the year and made us an ice cream cake with sherbet drink. It was delicious! Claire also made me a flowers hat and a corsage :-) as well as a beautiful drawing. It was a wonderful morning...

Happy Birthday My Princess!

Today was Emilie's 6th Birthday Party. Mike and I will be out of town at a Commander's Class for her brithday on the 28th April so we celebrated it on Saturday with some of her class and neighborhood friends. Nana was also there to take care of the girls while we were gone.

6 years ago, we had the best surprise ever. I was at the Andrews AFB hospital to give birth to our first child. A beautiful baby girl that we decided to name Emilie, Marie.

1 year old

2 y.o. ------------------ 3 y.o.

4 y.o. ------------------------------5 y.o.

Today she is turning 6! What a big girl! We never wanted to find out the sex of either one of our children and were blessed with 2 amazing princesses!

Emilie is very caring and attentive to others. She loves smaller kids (like her cousinsin Belgium), she loves her sister even though she likes to tease her. Her favorite thing to do is crafts ('bricolage'). Cutting, painting, building... She loves to put on shows for us with her sister and believe it or not :-) she is very good at acting (She is our drama queen after all...). She has done very well in Kindergarten this year. She learned a lot of sight words, can write her name is capital as well as cursive. She can count by 1, 5, 10. She really enjoys school as well. She is eager to learn and is so proud to show us she can read and write 'by herself'. I was making my grocery list the other day and she insisted she could write and wanted to write down eveything we needed. She did a great job.

She is a very bright child.

Her French is also very good.

At 6, she is now looking forward to loosing her first tooth (wants to go to the nurses office at school to get a 'reward' and a mark on the calendar). She did not want to move to Mississippi but when she found out we would live in a 2 stories house, the staircase is what sold it for her!

Happy Easter

This week was very busy for the Callender Family.

On Tuesday, I attended Claire's Easter Party at Happyland Preschool. They had stations for the kids (egg dying, cookie decorating, bunny project and the visit of the Easter Bunny). After that, the kids got to go hunt the eggs. It was a wonderful time.

On Thursday, I went to help Emilie's Kindergarten class decorate their Easter Hat/Bonnets. Friday was the Easter Egg Hunt. Claire and I helped hide the eggs for the class. The kindergarteners then all performed in a parade. They walked down the halls and outside the building to show off their hats. Mike got to come and watch them as well. It was very cute.

On Saturday morning, we went on base for an Easter egg hunt. We did not stay very long at the Fair because we were expecting someone to come look at the house. In the afternoon, we had a neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt with the Mignaccas, the Cantilinas and the Smiley, who just moved in our street, which turned out great. We had fun hiding and finding the eggs.

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On Sunday, we went to church. Relaxed on the deck on this beautiful day and invited our friend Katie for an early dinner. It was a wonderful day!