It seems I can only get a real smile and a pose if she's in costume...
Monday, December 27, 2010
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Kitchen Help
Quinn is in the not-actually-helpful helper phase. While this makes preparation much longer and messier, she is quite cute, saying "Hep, Hep, Hep" pushing her little chair across the kitchen.
Monday, December 6, 2010
Indian Summer
We had several warm dry days well into October this year, allowing the girls a lot of time to play outside in the afternoons. It was really quite beautiful to see all the leaves change colors against the blue sky. We spent many hours at the park collecting leaves, chasing squirrels, swinging, running and fighting over the rocking frog.
Writing
October 13, 2010
Ella had a big interest in writing for about a month or so. She was able to let go of her perfectionist tendencies and be happy with what she wrote. Since then, she has moved on to writing long zig-zags as notes. I'm also a tad embarassed to admit that she is also teaching herself phonics on our iPods and iPad. So much for the No Video Game rule. But, she is learning to read and write with it. Totally self-motivated~ she knows all the consonant sounds and some vowel sounds, and now some 2- and 3-letter group sounds, using those to sound out some words.
Plumper Pumpkin Patch
A few photos from a not very pumpkin centric trip to a pumpkin patch.
They were happier than they look...the sun was super bright!
Proof that we did go and pick our pumpkins from the field another day, on Sauvie Island:
Family Portrait
Clockwise from top left: Dad, Mom, Ella (devil horns are barettes), Quinn. Hailey is blue blob in middle. Pink signature under Dad's body. She has been doing the many armed E for months now, no care to limit it to 3. I think she thinks it is fancier this way.
The proud artist
October 9, 2010
Impromptu Tea Party
October 4, 2010
Bathroom tea party. I don't remember what I was doing when they got up to this, but when I went looking for them, here is what I found.
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