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Super quick update

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I’m employing Starfall as my babysitter for a few minutes so I can do some Good Beginnings work. That done, I’m going to take two more minutes for a blog update as I noticed I left you all hanging on the sick thing.

Lex is feeling much better now. He went to school Tuesday morning, despite red rosy checks and a warm forehead. He insisted he felt fine and wanted to go to school. He came home yesterday afternoon wanting to take a nap (no surprise!). Unfortunately his bed was stripped and instead of waiting for me to remake his bed he decided to watch Toy Story instead. They both settled into the dark living room (darn winter!) and watched Toy Story. He almost dozed off a few times, but didn’t. I took the opportunity to bake a pumpkin pie. More on that later!

He went to bed feeling fine and woke up this morning happy and ready to go back to school. Yay!

The other good news from today is that Eve’s eye sight progress is going well. We had a checkup this morning and her eye doctor was very happy with her progress. I guess when she first got her glasses she measured at 20/30-20/40 corrected, but now she was 20/20 corrected. Which means her left eye is working harder and her vision is improving. Yay! The doctor was very pleased and Eve, of course, was a Wonderful Patient (or so said her sticker reward at the end.)

Ok, time to shut down and go… make dinner I suppose. Or maybe I’ll cuddle and play Starfall with them for awhile. :)

Silly Sleepers

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I added a tag called “silly sleepers” to mark all these crazy sleep positions :) Some day I’ll go back through the years of blog posts and tag them all. For now, here’s a starter photo.

sleeping eve

Her legs were criss-crossed in front of her (criss-cross applesauce, hands in your lap) and she was flopped right over them. Sound asleep. So flexible!

Colors

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Eve’s class at school is learning colors and to that end they are supposed to wear certain colors on certain days. Today is black day and she insisted on ALL black! She wore her black pants and shoes, Lex’s black shirt and hat, and Alan’s black socks, pulled all they way up!  They go well above her knees!  She’s so funny.  She wouldn’t smile for a picture, but she behaved perfectly during our super busy morning of meetings and errands, so I’ll take the crazy face.  :-o

Fun with horsey

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Eve LOVES this new horse balloon. Thanks Greg and Kathy! This morning she decided it was tired and tried to put a blanket on it for a nap. Hilarity ensued as the hovering horse kept slipping out from underneath the blanket, much to Eve’s frustration (and mine that I didn’t have the camera in hand!) Instead we decided to use the blanket for a picnic. Horse got her own plate.

snack

Eve was happy to "help" horse pull her head down to reach the snack.

socks

This is Eve's very disappointed face when she discovered that her new Hello Kitty socks don't fit the horse.

While we ate lunch we decided to play a game of Candy Land. Horse got to play too, with a little help from Eve.

red

Horse is the red player because she has a red harness and therefore it must be her favorite color. :)

stools

Do you like the stools Eve gathered so the horse could reach the table? I suggested a chair but she insisted stools would be better.

This last one is just a funny picture. You wonder where she gets her energy from?!?

tea

Just kidding, it's blueberry tea and I drank most of it.

Linked up to the Happiness Is… blog hop over at Rub Some Dirt On It.
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Horse walks slowly.

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After dinner tonight Eve got out a notebook and crayon and settled down on the chair with Pinky by her side.

eve writing
I said, “It’s time for bath, what are you doing?”
She said, “I need to write something down real quick. You need to help me.”
Me: “Ok, what do you need to write?”
Her: “Horse walks slowly. Horse jumps. I have the H, what comes next?”

How could I say no to that? So we sat for awhile and I said the sounds for each letter and she wrote them. When she was done she smiled for the camera, put her things away, and went upstairs for bath. I guess she just had to get that off her mind.

eve

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Horse walks slowly. Horse jumps.

A super easy craft project

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This might be one of the easiest craft projects ever and it took me forever (years, really!) to get around to doing it. (this one is for you Julie!)

Take some pasta, any shape will do as long as it has a hole in it. We used whole wheat penne pasta because that’s what I had in the cabinet.

In a little plastic bag put 2t vinegar, 10-12 drops of food coloring, and 1/2c pasta. Seal it well and shake. A lot. This was Eve’s favorite part. Repeat as needed for as many colors as you want to make.

Let the pasta sit in the dye for five minutes, shaking occasionally. Or a lot. Whatever.

Dump the pasta out onto newspaper to dry. We made four colors and I tried to put each one in it’s own corner, but I let Eve help and therefore many of the wet noodles touched, causing pretty streaking patterns.

Let dry for 15 minutes then turn the pieces over. This sounds very precise. I dumped them from one piece of newspaper to another (dry) piece. Lots of mixing occurred at this point but they were dry enough that it didn’t matter much.

Let sit for awhile longer (we left them for about 4hrs until after school) then grab a string and go to town! Eve made a necklace for her classmate :) You can also use them for gluing pretty pictures on paper, or counting and sorting, or countless other random activities.

Have fun!

pasta necklaces - p1

pasta necklaces - p2

pasta necklaces - p3