Wednesday, July 29, 2009
paint
Ira received a belated birthday present in the mail and it was a huge hit. A nightlight cover to paint and a keepsake wooden box to decorate. We pulled out an old craft project never finished to have liv paint along side her sister... since these days she only wants to do what ira is doing.
cave dwellers.....
at least that is what I like to refer to us as ;)
not only is it hot outside... but the sun is intense... and we are pale pale people who burn incredibly easy. So we tend to hibernate inside during the most intense parts of the day.
we have taken to baking daily. We are currently trying to perfect our blueberry muffin recipe. At this point, I am simply the swedish chef adding this and that.. but they are good.
Ira makes all sorts of forts and houses for her hundreds of animals and friends.
Lots of lego building....
good times.
not only is it hot outside... but the sun is intense... and we are pale pale people who burn incredibly easy. So we tend to hibernate inside during the most intense parts of the day.
we have taken to baking daily. We are currently trying to perfect our blueberry muffin recipe. At this point, I am simply the swedish chef adding this and that.. but they are good.
Ira makes all sorts of forts and houses for her hundreds of animals and friends.
Lots of lego building....
good times.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Tuesday Musing
Ira can snap. and she can snap well.
Anyone care to share when they learned????
I didnt master snapping in even the most gracious definition until I was maybe 5? jared swears he was older. Now- she can snap songs and its loud and really cool. We kept telling her that she needed to practice and lots of people cant snap until they are older.
I think she does this stuff just to prove us wrong.
Then, this morning... as I was having a cup of coffee she came in and sat down next to me. I think I should preface this by saying we recently have been visiting the international wildlife museum, which is a natural history type museum, with taxidermy animals, birds, etc. Hunting collections i presume.. turned into a museum....very informative, very educational, very sad..... so the topic of dead animals has been a topic of discussion A LOT lately.
"Mom", she says... very business like.
"Mom, I think that its awful that people hunt animals in africa. But even though those people kill the lions... they have cubs.... and the cubs grow up and become lions and have cubs. So even if people still try to kill animals... there will always be a cycle. There will always be cubs, right mama? like an ecosystem. there are cycles."
i swear to you.... I just sat there. I had no words. she is four. just turned four two weeks ago. I felt like saying, "wanna color?"
her thoughts seem so heavy.
Instead, I said, "yes, there is a cycle. The cycle was in place before us... usually with the lions at the top.. They eat things like antelope and zebra, and the antelope and zebra eat the grass. Before man killed lion they didnt have any other natural predators..." and I turned it into an impromptu food chain discussion, then we did a craft... posted here...
It just amazes me though, the retention of information that we discuss casually and the ability to really understand, comprehend and then build on those concepts.
Anyone care to share when they learned????
I didnt master snapping in even the most gracious definition until I was maybe 5? jared swears he was older. Now- she can snap songs and its loud and really cool. We kept telling her that she needed to practice and lots of people cant snap until they are older.
I think she does this stuff just to prove us wrong.
Then, this morning... as I was having a cup of coffee she came in and sat down next to me. I think I should preface this by saying we recently have been visiting the international wildlife museum, which is a natural history type museum, with taxidermy animals, birds, etc. Hunting collections i presume.. turned into a museum....very informative, very educational, very sad..... so the topic of dead animals has been a topic of discussion A LOT lately.
"Mom", she says... very business like.
"Mom, I think that its awful that people hunt animals in africa. But even though those people kill the lions... they have cubs.... and the cubs grow up and become lions and have cubs. So even if people still try to kill animals... there will always be a cycle. There will always be cubs, right mama? like an ecosystem. there are cycles."
i swear to you.... I just sat there. I had no words. she is four. just turned four two weeks ago. I felt like saying, "wanna color?"
her thoughts seem so heavy.
Instead, I said, "yes, there is a cycle. The cycle was in place before us... usually with the lions at the top.. They eat things like antelope and zebra, and the antelope and zebra eat the grass. Before man killed lion they didnt have any other natural predators..." and I turned it into an impromptu food chain discussion, then we did a craft... posted here...
It just amazes me though, the retention of information that we discuss casually and the ability to really understand, comprehend and then build on those concepts.
Friday, July 17, 2009
fun friday
today, ira did interpretive star wars dancing. She turned r2d2, 3cpo & jedi movements into dances.... :)
liv learned how to pretend to be frankenstein, and how to spin in circles..... oh, and she said "cheese" for the first time.
and we ran in the rain....
a really productive day.
oh and we did read some really great books that we picked up at our last library trip....
our very new favourite that I cannot BELIEVE we haven't read before is
If you see a fairy ring!
princesses are NOT quitters
the frogs and toes all sang
ten little fingers and ten little toes
turk and runt
a sweet smell of roses
a sweet smell of roses is such a lovely, lovely, inspiring civil rights story, with beautiful artwork. made me cry.
liv learned how to pretend to be frankenstein, and how to spin in circles..... oh, and she said "cheese" for the first time.
and we ran in the rain....
a really productive day.
oh and we did read some really great books that we picked up at our last library trip....
our very new favourite that I cannot BELIEVE we haven't read before is
If you see a fairy ring!
princesses are NOT quitters
the frogs and toes all sang
ten little fingers and ten little toes
turk and runt
a sweet smell of roses
a sweet smell of roses is such a lovely, lovely, inspiring civil rights story, with beautiful artwork. made me cry.
Monday, July 13, 2009
desert museum
learning about the owl.... did YOU know they ate scorpions???? we didn't.
the gals posing by the metal javelinas....
the dead agave...... I blogged about this here....
the gals posing by the metal javelinas....
the dead agave...... I blogged about this here....
paint a dog.....
i think she did a great job..... I also think its hilarious. Diva puppies. Diva BOBBLE HEAD puppies. But it was HER birthday, and she requested these.... she took it very very seriosuly as you can plainly see.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
potty??
everyday, at least once a day- liv demands to sit on the potty. at 14 months, im not expecting anything, but she goes in, grabs a book & chills.
water painting
live loves to paint, but it gets MESSY, so i have her paint the chalkboard with water- and it helps me clean it ;)
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