September!!!!

You know autumn is near when pumpkin spice lattes are back!

I got my first one this morning...










We took a longer walk around town today- saw a squirrel eating-







Liv was afraid it was going to attack....








Ira showing off her favorite watermelon shirt...








We found a new park- very fun...









With a rubberized track...


































Liv said "bird! Wait for me!" then turned to me and said "mama where you put my wings, unwed to fly"








I love bridges.....


























Everything here is so clean! Even underneath the bridges- no
Litter, no grafitti, nada.... Crazy!







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recovery...

we all slept last night!!!!

thank goodness!

we made gluten free cookies today to celebrate...

ira made an elevator for her pet shops...

then the lego bug bit ira and she was in that world for a couple hours... she even made two videos....

we went for a walk, but left my phone on accident...

i was too frustrated with my iphone blogging app- it ate three posts yesterday and is still not working!

blogging from the laptop after having an easy phone app seems so hard!

wow, what a day!

Emers kept me up until 2a.m. and then woke me up at 530a.m.!!!!

i have been walking and bouncing this teething cranky boy all night and day!

its a good thing that I can knit whilst walking and bouncing though- i was able to finish the most labor intensive portion of one of ira's solstice gifts.

it was an easy going day today, I scrapped all our plans and followed the girls' lead.

We went for a couple walks...

the girls bring their new buckets with us everywhere... they have brought home so many leaves and twigs- we really need to get on that craft...
here is liv at the finish line... who is racing you might ask?
team zhu zhu....ira insisted on serving up tea today... she wanted me to relax- but then liv said, "i help too!" and she kept dumping it everywhere.

ira started getting frustrated at how clumsy a two year old is... i am always impressed when she interacts in this way though. She didnt yell at her sister. She said, "liv, you are spilling it, can you wait until I can help you"

i eventually had to step in because liv is determined. but I thought it was a good teaching/learning moment and was proud at them for trying to work it out.

she even frothed my tea- she said, "just like you like your coffee!"

as I scrubbed the hibiscus tea off the kitchen- the girls went off to the play room....

liv set up the barn in the kitchen...
liv set up a castle in the playhouse...

man, I REALLY need to sand and beeswax that play furniture!!!! its so worn and beat up looking! (and drawn on)

we made some chocolate chia seed pudding...

I thought at this point it was for sure almost time for jared to be home! NOPE!

it was only 3!

we got out the play clay- the lemongrass was mine!
liv creating a masterpiece on the whiteboard- mixed media- whiteboard markers and whiteboard crayons! she turned the bag into a puppet too.... note the crayon on her face....then note why I took off her beautiful dress before she can play with whiteboard materials :P

ira set up an excer-tripod... to take the place of a hamster wheel.

the zhu zhus will go around and around and around....
then we had more tea with watermelon....
the girls were upset that it was seedless....
so they added their own with raisins...

liv said she needed her hat and phone to go to dinner...

Summery September 1!

Happy September!!!

We have started reading our autumn themed books and doing fall crafts.... But today it's hot! Gotta love it here- highs of 62 in July and august and 90 degrees in September.

We had ice cream....



We made popcorn





And played with water...

A penny toss...


Liv knocked one over- so they jumped in the puddles...





They measured, used funnels, etc...


Gave the ponies a bath...


We read this book....


When I turned to this page, Ira said, "mama, I miss tucson" :(


This page made mama miss Tucson....

Nature walks and dinosaurs...

Liv woke up bright eyed way early... So while the rest of us caught up to her alertness, she played super why on the iPad.

She can correctly identify the entire alphabet in random order and she can choose the correct letter from sets of three.


Liv then made me a birthday cake...


Our first walk of the day- looking for signs of fall....





Collected some twigs for a craft we have planned....


After lunch- and an outfit change or two or three- We went on another walk.... More leaves...


Liv found a heart shaped red one!


Picked this flower from our patio....


Left it for our faeries.....


After looking at some other blogs, And seeing lots of people making tipi dwellings out of sticks and sheets- Ira said- we should use daddy's camera stand, then we don't need sticks or rope!"

So I pulled out an old blanket.... As I draped it, Ira said "no!!! They didn't use plain white! They put symbols on it!"







She added a unicorn, because we are the unicorn clan and she added mobsters to "scare away the evil spirits". I love it because it really showed that she was absorbing all that information from our roadtrip through Montana, South Dakota, etc.







She even added a painted horse...


And a tent for her animals


Liv did some drawing/coloring...


And then we read about dinosaurs...