Painting

Same paint dot markers, same type of canvass, two vastly different paintings! See if you can guess which one is by Butters and which one by the Princess.

Snow!

Snow day, no school, sledding with friends and lots of hot chocolate.











Butters didn't want to go down the hill after the first time. E jumped up and said, "Again!" She went down it around 6 times, he did it twice. Then, last night, we got around 3 inches and Butters finally enjoyed sledding, it was dark out and he rolled down our backyard and couldn't get enough of it.

Ballet

This was going to be a post with pictures of Princess E dancing all around the room in her ballet class.

But during the parent observation day, she decided against participating. She one of the youngest in the class, and that day, it showed. She usually hangs on the teachers every word and has a great time. On this day, the parents walked in and her face dropped. She told me later, "I didn't do what the teacher told me to do."







Strong willed, that girl. Something tells me this could be the last photo from ballet!

We Made That!

The kids and DH made this to send to Grandma.

I made this play tent for the table. Inspired by this one (click here), but not as nice since my table is 89" long! I hope to go back and add windows.

We made this for my mom's birthday. The center needlework is by my grandmother who had put this on a dress for my aunt. The fabric was my grandmothers, so I used it to make a boarder. The frame is made by DH from purple heartwood. That amazing purple hue is the natural color of the wood!

School Yes and No

School is going great for this little lady, you can see where she wrote her name in the photo. And, she can make a perfect snowball, I'm kidding, DH made the snowman with a snowball maker. E loves going to school, and she catches on fast. She is actually jealous that her brother gets to go and she has to drop him off and pick him up but doesn't get to stay.






Butters is her opposite. He has relented to attending school, but his class is so big, I worry I am doing a disservice to him. There are now over 30 kids in the class and only one teacher. His handwriting is full of bad habits. It's so hard to know when to jump in and demand more. So, I went ahead a wrote a letter for the principal and had the parents sign it. I'm asking for an update on what is being done to improve the learning environment. I don't even know how his teacher can walk down the hall with that many kids!

PacSci

Pacific Science Center and the Harry Potter exhibit, a fun family outing for the New Year.

The tree was down the post party clean up complete so we headed south for a bit of fun!

Sledding

DH took today off, their wasn't snow in our neighborhood, but it wasn't hard to find. We went to Tucker Willis Park, there was a little hill for the kids, the dog and BYO hot chocolate!