Shopping

I went shopping today. Alone. To stores other than the grocery store. It was exciting. However, it was also mayhem! We haven’t even made it to December yet and people are out in force! Of course it was Saturday afternoon, which isn’t really the best time for shopping, unless you are trying to buy little treats for little kids and want to go to the toy store and the candy store without said kids underfoot. Then Saturday is the best time to go while daddy plays at home with kiddies. Anyway, it was fun. I went to a bunch of stores and bought little things for the advent calendar I’m making for them. Now I’m going to turn of this computer and put Alan to work helping me put the project together :) Family fun!

DoodlePro

Lex drew a fun picture on the DoodlePro last week and has insisted it stay there. For the past few days Eve has been wanting to erase it and draw something else, but each time she mentions Lex freaks out. Yesterday he was in tears because he thought she erased it. I told him he could leave it for one more day, but reminded him that the DoodlePro is not for permanent artwork. This morning Eve asked again about erasing it and Lex said, “Just let me copy it onto paper first!” A reasonable request, I think. I expected him to just redraw the picture, but instead he got a big piece of paper and traced the DoodlePro! Then he drew the picture within that. So clever! :)

At work

Lex at work, copying from the DoodlePro to paper.

All done

All done. The writing is a little hard to read on the paper because he used a light colored pencil, but it's all there.

When he finished he happily handed the DoodleProp to Eve and let her erase the picture.

Roar!

Eve found this old lion costume in the dress up box and wore it for awhile yesterday and then all morning today. She is so cute in it!

Lion Eve with kitty

Lion Eve with kitty

roar

ROAR!

lion on a horsey

A lion on a horsey?

getting away

He's getting away, but little lion is holding on tight!

down

The little lion took him down! :)

Remember when we got the costume last year?

Snowman pizza

Fun mommy came to dinner last night…

Snowman pizza - before cooking

Snowman pizza - before cooking

Snowman pizza - after cooking

Snowman pizza - after cooking

We saw this idea in a Highlights magazine and when Eve asked for pizza for dinner I thought it would be a fun treat. Both kids enjoyed looking at it, but only Eve was brave enough to eat it. It was delicious. Silly Lex ate carrots and peppers while Eve and I dug into the pizza.