Her perfectionist nature came out of course when it came time for any art project or writing-and it was not unusual for her to be working well until dinner time on something. That is one of the reasons I think I feel like this is such a good fit for her-at preschool she was always rushed to move on to the next thing, when she was trying to cut perfect little circles and glue them exactly where they went, while the teacher was just trying to keep the other kids from eating the glue. So far so good. I think this will be great. Hard, but great.
Now on to the HELP part. I need your creative genius! I made these blocks-but am having some serious well writers block (my mom will laugh) at what to write on them. They are on my desk-any ideas? I need a (clean) 4 letter word and a 5 letter word, that work well together.
Then I really wanted some tall pillar black candlesticks to put on top of my media cabinet and maybe a topiary or two, I was sick of my baskets up there. Well my mom got me something better-these really great handmade wooden candlesticks that are about 3 feet tall, there's only one problem-they look lots better on my mantle. Now I have this blank space and I'm drawing a blank (again my mom will laugh at my little puns!) for what to put up there.
Any ideas will be greatly appreciated-if you have pictures of something that will work, that would be immensly helpful!
He is sitting up in the tub now (and everywhere else-so bye bye-swing and bouncy chair). He is loving eating solid foods, and loves playing with his food as well, which is apparent by the following picture of sweet potatoes on his head!
He loves it when his brother and sister play with him-he doesn't care what they do, as long as they are having a good time so is he. I've caught Bekah just tickling him rather hard thinking a fit is coming on and he will just be squealing with delight. Topher likes to put stuff on him and laugh at him-like the washcloths in the tub.
He'll be crawling and soon walking before we know it, if he is anything like big bro and sis-we'll have a little walker here before summer starts! Yikes! It goes by faster and faster with each one, doesn't it?
Porter got a jumperoo-which he is loving-and mom too-a few more minutes to get stuff done while he jumps and plays!
I'd say they are pretty excited that Santa came, wouldn't you?
I made these for the neighbors of my mom, my mom and a couple friends here out of some Stephens hot cocoa cans.
Monday-I decided to make Chad's ornament this year-because I couldn't find one to purchase that I liked enough-so we made salt dough ornaments-lots of fun!
Bekah made a heart and Topher made a dinosaur-and I couldn't get them both to look at me at the same time-so we get the goofball twin pictures!
Tuesday we made a gingerbread house and a gingerbread train...
Then we all opened our ornaments-the kids all get themed ornaments; Bekah-snowmen, Topher-Santa's and Porter will get reindeer.
Porter is at the age-where if something is in his hand-it goes straight for then mouth-so we end up with a lot of these kinds of pictures-don't worry, he's not hurt, a little upset it's not food, but that's it.
Chad and I do something that represents the year, so he gave me this one, because we are finally in a home-even if we are just renting, I am so grateful to be in a house at last, so this means a lot to me this year!
I made this one for Chad, it has our yellow house, our apple tree we (he) have spent so much time on this year, an owl in the tree for him becoming an owl at OIT, a baby bottle and blocks that spell boy, because we had Porter this year, his truck, our Yukon and a hand with a bent thumb. I pretty much got the whole year on there, including a big red heart because I love him more this year than any year previous.
It may not be as pretty as a storebought ornament-but we've had quite the year-and I didn't want to forget any of it!
...and left out some cookies for when he did.
We had a great countdown to Christmas, even when the kids were a little overwhelmed with all the fun stuff and started acting spoiled-we still enjoyed spending all that time together and will probably try to do this every year!
Then each table represented a number of the 12 days of Christmas and everyone had to come up with something from Klamath Falls and sing it as the song went on. Such as; The falls that don't exist for day one, 5 feet of snow for day 5 etc... It was a lot of fun.
If I took your kids' pic and you would like it email me and I will send it to you!
Topher braving the blizzard.
These icicles have also encaged our side door-I didn't notice my daughters life was in danger when I took this picture-her tongue was touching the bottom of it-but look at that pile of snow on the awning-geez!
Topher started building this with Chad but lost interest-Bekah stayed out there and they made this into quite the fort! Bekah wants to build it up even higher tomorrow-well we are in no short supply of building material-sheesh! I hope we are able to make it to Portland for Christmas-but if this keeps up-we'll be snowed in!
Gingerbread Pancakes with whip cream and chocolate chips-yummy! The kids , I cut out with cookie cutters and decorated them-but they were devoured before I got a picture of those.
Almost buddy just a little down and to the left!
