We made peanut butter and bird seed pine cones a few days ago to give the birdies a treat. As usual, everything gets done in stages around here so they were sitting on the table for awhile before we finally got around to hanging them today.
Don't they look like they are having fun?! :)
I can't reach any good tree limbs to hang them from, so instead I hung them from the porch and...
in front of the window. I hope we see some birds soon!
The soda bread came out pretty good. Better, in fact, than it looks on that cell phone picture! :)
My little leprechaun
Yummy. We had some for snack, I brought some to my Good Beginnings meeting, and Alan brought the rest to poker. I love when baked goods are out of the house by evening :)
Eve made a leprechaun mirror at school. We had a lot of fun with it!
This was supposed to be a picture of Lex trying on not one, but two, pairs of sunglasses, but instead I got darkness and a sunny background.
Spring is in the 50° air and tiny flowers are poking their noses out! Hooray!
Little crocus (croci?) poking up. We moved the snow shovels this afternoon and got this wonderful surprise!
Amongst the dead growth from last year you can see little bits of fresh green poking through the dirt.
My first Irish Soda Bread. I hope it tastes as good as it looks!
Lex finished his “get out the door on time” sticker chart last week so we did some chart making this afternoon. I made one for myself (dorky, I know, but I really need to figure out how to motivate myself to lose these last 10lbs!) and then Lex made himself another one. I was going to make his, but he wanted to do it himself. His spacing was a bit off, which worked out well because Eve wanted a chart too, so he cut his apart and made one for him and one for her. Isn’t he sweet?!
Lex making his chart
Smiles for the camera!
He wanted me to write the days because he was worried he couldn't fit them in the boxes. When I explained the M/T/W/TH/F shortcut he was thrilled.
After our chart making activities we decided to make cookies (hmm… and I wonder why I have trouble with those last 10lbs!). Lex helped for a few minutes, but on the way to the recycling bin with the empty egg carton he announced, “We could recycle this, or… we could do a craft project!!” Coincidentally I recently read about an egg carton dump truck project that I thought looked like fun. Lex loved the idea. We brought my laptop to the table and he followed the instructions while Eve and I made cookies. He needed some help with the cutting and hole punching, and he made a few modifications of his own (need tape, no time for glue to dry!) and he had a great time. It was awesome.
Lex is excellent at following directions.
I got the glue out but Lex insisted tape would be better. He was right.
Lex told me decorating the truck was his favorite part. This is his "stop taking pictures of me" smile :)
The finished dump truck. Pretty cool, huh? It even has a license plate on the front.
Kindergarten has him well trained. He wrote his name on the truck so we don't get it confused with all the other egg carton dump trucks around here!
The sun was shining today and we got out the door a few minutes early, so I grabbed the camera.
Eve went to a birthday party at the bowling alley this weekend. She was the best dressed there!
She wanted a ponytail, but she doesn't have enough hair anymore for a ponytail, so we settled on barrettes instead.
Except maybe this girl! :)
The party had a St. Patty's Day theme, but the birthday girl wanted purple, so they settled on green and orange outside, and purple cake on the inside!
We had a fun-ish movie night on Saturday. Lex and I picked up Happy Feet at the library and thought we’d have pizza and a movie and a fun family night. Turns out they had a lot of “screen time” all day, then we got the movie started later than I had hoped for, then Happy Feet was too scary for Eve so we switched to The Incredibles after half an hour and even that was too much for Eve. Of course she was pretty tired by this point. Neither of them ate any pizza, although they chowed on the fruits and veggies I set out as appetizers so I can’t complain about that! We ended up turning off the movie at 8:30 (I think it was) and Lex had a total meltdown. In hindsight I think we should have let him stay up and finish watching and just put Eve to bed, but obviously my brain wasn’t operating a peak performance. Sigh. It was a fun idea anyway, and Sunday morning the kids were talking about the fun movie night, so I guess that’s what matters most. Here is my favorite part:
Aren't they sweet? :)
Yesterday I said,
“Pete and Repeat had a race” (a smile slid across Lex’s face, he loves this one)
“Pete lost. Who won?”
“THE TURTLE,” yelled Eve!
Laughter erupted in the living room. When things settled down, she added,
“As you know, slow and steady wins the race.”
For the past few weeks the kids have been waking up at 5:30. Sometimes they manage to stay in their room until 6am, as is the rule, but more likely than not Eve is out way too early. Now, with the time change, it’s 6:45 and they are both still sleeping! I got up extra early to get a shower before they woke up, but now I may have to wake them for school this morning. I guess the joke is on me this morning.
Eve has been doing a ton of writing lately. I LOVE it! She is so smart. Sometimes the writing is well spaced and evenly sized, and sometimes it’s all over the place. All the time she does a great job with the spelling (with a bit of help) and she has so much fun.
Here's Eve writing a birthday card for her friend's party this weekend. We put together a butterfly themed present with a butterfly kite, butterfly crayons, and a butterfly card. :)
Eve drew a picture of me and wrote "To Tessa Love Eve" in an artistic sort of way. Then she told me a story about the special glasses she had that made my face look orange to her. She has an AWESOME imagination!
We went to visit a friend this morning and Eve made her a game. It's a maze and at the end it says "Central Park Straight Ahead" The green grass at the bottom is Central Park.