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Thursday, March 10, 2011

WIP Wednesday

we are in the process of making spring art for the nature table and the walls....
this is a piece of carboard from an old pad of paper that the kids painted and we glued scraps of paper to....

when we went outside to take a picture, the kids acted like they hadn't been outdoors in about a year!

PLANE! PLANE!


liv begging me to get out the sidewalk chalk!





duck! plane! water! ahhhhhhh



gosh, he is getting so so big!




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Sick days....

We are still sick! Stuffy noses and coughs.

Didn't stop us though.... Here is Ira and our cornstarch science experiment....





Then, while the kids were eating strawberries, Ira said "would YOU like a strawberry?" o said no, that I like strawberries, but the seeds always get stuck in my teeth. She said, "do you miss eating them?" I said sometimes.


She disappeared for a bit and returned with this- she had used a plastic Ikea knife to cut off the seeds for me! Made me cry. She is so sweet!


Emers and liv think so too.





Queen Ira!


Superhero luv to the rescue? No.


Hero liv destroyed the hedgehog, his home and the robot city. And the monchichi.


Emers stealing from the dollhouse...


Puppet shows...





And sweet sister cuddles...


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Saturday, March 5, 2011

Sunday

After feeling sick for a few days, the little ones got rowdy today!

This is the first time they played together for this long without Ira orchestrating. Emers is really getting old!














"what mama? I can't rip all these things down?"





Ira is still sick... She laid around and watched movies. Then came out and worked 18 pages in her phonics book and a couple pages in "explode the code".

She is really reading now. Sounding out words and figuring it all out. So cool to watch.


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Sneezes

We have been sick. :( Chilling out at home feeling under the weather.

Liv drew endless pictures on the whiteboard for her pen pal "ijah!"


Treasure chest building... They cut gold coins and emeralds from construction paper. You can tell they feel sick because they kept fighting over ev.er.y.thing. They never do that.


Watched baby snakes hatch...


The queens throne...




Friday, March 4, 2011

14 months....

Emers is 14 months!

He loves cashew butter on rice bread dipped in chia seed pudding....





And he likes having his picture taken. As soon as I take out my phone he leans forward and smiles. Sorry for the blurry pic!


He started saying "eyes" today. He took off my glasses and pointed at my eyes. He is loves taking off my glasses and examining them. The first thing he does in the morning is make his sign for "where did it go?" and say, "sssesssesss" (glasses). It's pretty cute.

He still doesn't say mama or dada. But he yelled "sister!" the other night.

New words he added are "ouch" "oops" and "nose".

He fell and ouched his nose outside on a walk. It was a memorable event for him apparently.

He is very active and wants to do every thing his sisters do. Which has resulted in lots of bumps and bruises. When we go for walks he doesn't want to be held, he wants to RUN! At the grocery store or target he squeals as soon as he sees the shopping cart!

The older kids preferred to be held until they were much older so this is all new! The girls didn't walk until almost 15months. They were too busy being chatterboxes, I think.

It is so so so interesting to see how different each child is.

Emers also does something Liv and Ira NEVER did- request Jared to hold them for long periods of time. He will run to Jared and hug him and pat his back, resting his head on his shoulder. He will stay there for a really long time and protest if I try to take him or Jared tries to put him down.

So that's the update I have for the baby.... Or toddler? Yikes. It seems to soon to call him that!

This week in pictures...

We've been too busy and I keep forgetting to snap pictures!

Here are some random shots from the week!

The rain stopped! It's coming back, but we are ignoring that!





Farmers Market Carrots! So sweet!


Dr. Suess had a birthday! We celebrated at home AND went to the library for pajama storytime.


Our favorite.....


Which is, incidentally, Jareds book from when he was 7! The book is 26 years old! Still going strong too :) binding in perfect condition. Jared is a kind book owner.


Livs painting....





Playing grocery store...


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Monday, February 28, 2011

Tattoo

Unicorn tattoo!





I said "tattoos hurt!" so she made this face...





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Saturday, February 26, 2011

Saturday Farmers Market

This picture sums up the entire morning...


We got delicious organic produce for a fraction of what we would pay at whole foods AND found an amazing local sauerkraut stand AND the kids got to meet the people that grow our food. The kids cuteness always seems to score them free veggies and fruit to snack on too.

Then as we were leaving a balloon artist wanted to know if we knew anyone who could give a good home to some stray balloon flowers.


Later that day, the girls set a trap and snagged a bunny!


And we all fell desperately and hopelessly in love.....


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Friday, February 25, 2011

Pen pal...

Liv got a letter from her penal today! She was VERY impressed and went right to the table to write him back!

"he is my friend! He draws me pictures! I love his picture!"





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