Amelia's Thanksgiving Program

Amelia's school put on their Thanksgiving Program this week. Amelia was an Indian and sang a song and performed an Indian dance. She did really well and remembered all the songs and steps of the dance. Elliott almost ruined the whole performance by yelling "Thister" (his version of Sister) repeatedly and trying to run on the stage. He had to be removed from the chapel. O-well, that's what little brothers are for, right?

We were very proud of Amelia and all the other kids at CHUMS. The teachers did a great job of working with them and putting on a GREAT performance.

Catherine's Princess Party

Catherine turned 4 and had an all girls Princess Party (No boys allowed!). It was great fun with Princess games food and cake. As you can see all the girls had a GREAT time. Amelia decided she would be Ariel the Mermaid. All the girls represented the Princesses well except when Amelia decided to have a burping contest with Princess Belle. O-well, I guess she is a Princess in training.

Amelia and Catherine are great friends and have celebrated every birthday together. We look forward to celebrating all of our birthdays together. Happy Birthday Catherine! We love you!

Happy Halloween-2008!

The Quijano's LOVE Halloween! We had a great time as always. Frank's Aunt Cilia had a party at her house and we all had a great time getting dressed up, trick or treating, playing games and dancing.

I had our family costumes all planned out but Amelia had other ideas. I wanted the boys to be Mariachi's and the girls to be Spanish dancers. Amelia was OK with the idea but then she decided she wanted to be Tinker Bell. One day when she was with her Grandma Rosie she asked Grandma Rosie to take her to Target and what do you know, they had Tinker Bell Costumes and she came home with one! We compromised and she was Tinker Bell at her school parade and a Spanish Dancer on Halloween night. She also decided to be a ghost for a few minutes on Halloween which was easy enough to do. So much for family theme costumes. At least I can get away with planning Elliott's costumes for another 2 years.

Elliott was the cutest Mariachi you have ever seen! Grandma Rosie was Lucy, Grandpa was a Scarecrow, Aunt Bonnie was Katrina, Uncle Eddie was a sick looking old guy and Uncle Eric and Cousin Daniel were Pirates. There were so many great costumes I can't show them all.

Amelia had her school Halloween parade on October 30th and all the kids looked so good in their costumes. It was a great Halloween this year we look forward to next year!

Amelia's Dance at St. Paul's Festival

Amelia danced at the St. Paul's Festival on October 5, 2008. She is doing really well with her dancing and smiles and looks at the crowd when she dances now (She used to turn her head and look away when she danced).

Her friends Diego and Sebastian came to see her perform and had a great time watching her dance. She has a Christmas performance coming up that we are looking forward to because it will be new costumes and dances.