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Daily Archives: September 8, 2009
Pictures for dad
This afternoon (after a busy time playing outside with Parrish) Lex decided to make five pictures for Alan and write “From Lex To Dad” on each of them. On one of the pictures he wrote “From Lex To ALI.” When Alan asked what he was writing he said:
Lex: “I’m writing To Alan”
Alan: “My name doesn’t have an I in it.”
Lex: “Yes it does. It has the “ih” sound!”
I love how he sounds words out. It’s important for him to spell correctly (especially his dad’s name!) but I always hate correcting him. He abandoned that picture and started over with a new picture and went back to writing “From Lex To Dad” Alan ended up with five pictures from Lex anyway. That’s pretty cool! :)
A picture for Alan
I guess he did do one with Alan’s name :) See Alan’s comment for details. I LOVE that he is interested in writing. Yay Lex!
Arts & Crafts
I have been feeling crafty lately so yesterday I took Eve to JoAnn Fabrics (the only craft store around, that I know of!) to buy some more supplies. We are well stocked on crayons and coloring books, but I thought it was about time to venture out a bit. We got paints, a big pack of funny paint brushes, a few Thanksgiving projects, pipe cleaners, mini pompom balls, and… that’s all I can remember at the moment. This morning we got out the paints to make egg-carton caterpillars and turtles. The kids LOVED it! Lex kept saying over and over how happy he is that we bought paints (and not finger paints because he doesn’t like finger paints). This afternoon we will get out the googly eyes and pipe cleaners to finish the animals. I’ll post pics of the finished products because I know you all are dying to see them!
Painting
Soon we will do a popsicle stick project too. Any suggestions? We’ve had a bunch of them in the art drawer for awhile and Lex keeps asking if we can do something with them. My next project is going to be to organize the art drawer!! It’s horribly messy. Oh, also, any good suggestions for a piggy bank project? The paper-maché ones we made awhile ago are getting soft and not going to last much longer. The kids love them though, so I thought it would be fun to make new piggy banks.
Dog-gone?
Big hugs for doggie
I was all ready to write a sad post today about Lex’s missing doggie. This dog has been with us since Lex was born and has been through a lot! Several weeks ago I even performed abdominal surgery on poor doggie to remove a long-broken music box that was becoming more dangerous by the day. It was as tense surgery (my sewing skills are only adequate!) but doggie pulled through just fine… only to be lost several days later!!! He’s been missing for weeks and I was finally coming to terms with it. Oddly enough I think I was more upset about it than Lex! He moved on pretty quickly to “big dog” (a bigger, shaggier dog we got last year). This morning Eve opened a toy cabinet and found doggie (and his partner in crime, Snoopy Dog) stuffed in the back. Lex was VERY excited to see them again (and I was pretty happy too!) So we are not dog-gone today, just dog-gone cute! (as doggies belly says)
Witch Eve?
Fun with Halloween Costumes.