Meet our new friend, Alpha Rex.
I’m tired and Alan is waiting patiently for me to go to bed, so I’m going to leave you with this for now. I’ll tell you more about Alpha Rex another day.
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What’s going on?
Here is a peek at what’s going on in our world.
Everything bagel pretzels! A grocery store score!
An obstacle course for the Lego Mindstorm bull dozer Lex planned all week and eagerly built with Alan one Saturday morning.
A mid-afternoon trip to the bowling alley. Lex won both games!
Eve is the world’s slowest bowler, but she has fun with it. :)
Blueberry picking!
We went with some friends and it was a beautiful day.
Eve eventually switched to collecting rocks and wood chips to bring home. Yay, more “nature” for the collection.
We made muffins, which disappeared in a day, and froze a bunch. I think I’m going to make more muffins tomorrow. I could live on blueberry muffins! :)
Poor tired kids couldn’t even make it up the stairs at bedtime.
We had planned a trip to the lake today, but the weather was pretty sketchy so we went to the playground instead.
It started out as a simple puppet show…
Look at what happens to my living room when I have a cup of tea in the dining room with a friend and we ignore the children for awhile! This is a theater, I’m told. I’m sure there will be a more lengthy blog post on this later!
Our new toy
Like the juxtaposition of the old and the new? :)
Doggie pillows
We finally finished our first embroidery projects (started here and here). The kids made pillows for their doggies! Each pillow has a design on the front and the doggie’s name on the back. Mema and I helped Eve with the name side of her pillow, but she did the front and Lex did all of the embroidering on his. We sewed them together with the sewing machine, stuffed them with old quilt batting from a previous project, and I hand-stitched them closed. Don’t look to closely!
A proud crafter shows off his handiwork.
Yes, their doggies names are Alex and Jesus. Can you guess whose is whose?
The designs are kind of vague. Eve’s pillow, in the back, is a flower and some sky, I think. Lex’s is a flower, a sun, blue sky, and green grass at the bottom. Not too bad for design-on-the-fly by first timers! (sorry for the terrible photo quality!)
Lex wanted to rush right upstairs and give the doggies their pillows, but I said, “Wait! What do we always do first when we finish a craft project?” Lex stopped and replied, “Oh yes, we need to take pictures first!” Then he brought the camera upstairs to take pictures of the pillows in use. :)
Alex was “happy and surprised” with the gift.
Jesus thinks her new pillow is very comfortable.
Friday afternoon…
Them playing with someone else’s Legos at the library Legotime, me sitting on my butt reading a magazine. Good times. :)
LEGO picture
A LEGO picture with my initials.
A skirt!
With more Anna inspiration, I found this simple skirt tutorial and made Eve a skirt! I am so excited and it was SO easy! Eve insisted I make one for doggie as well. Of course.
I started it yesterday afternoon while the kids worked on their embroidered pillow projects (more on those later) and bounced around. I did a bit more after they went to bed. I left it with the hem pinned up and the waistband elastic pinned together so I could try it on Eve this morning and make sure it fits. It did. This afternoon I finished the hem and closed up the waistband and voila! A cute skirt!
A cute skirt.
A fancy waistband.
A snazzy hem.
A shy model.
A silly girl and her doll. (Apparently doggie wasn’t in the mood to wear a skirt today so Kristin volunteered instead.)
More piano hunting
Time is running out and we have many more pianos to find. Splash Camp has been taking up most of our time and energy these days! After camp on Wednesday I had haircut appointments scheduled for them, so we stopped by two pianos in the area as well.
Located in an artsy building, this piano is painted with chalkboard paint and available for decorating.
We all signed our names and left little notes.
This one is my favorite so far. It’s decorated in a “blues” theme, with lyrics and blues history and other decorations. The back (why didn’t I get a picture of that?!) is covered with white tiles decorated by lots of different people to show what “the blues” meant to them.
I like how they have a song written inside the cover. Clearly a lot of thought was put into it. It’s a very well done piano!
Lex’s To-Do List
Mowing the lawn, with a little help from dad.
This picture makes it look like he took off on his own! Really it lasted for about 20 seconds. He helped Alan do maybe a quarter of that side yard. Then Alan did the rest. You gotta start somewhere though, right? He was eager to learn, but tired out quickly. It’s a hard job for a little guy!
After dinner piano practice, explaining 8va and slurs to Alan.
Not bad for a Sunday!