Prolific

Marie has been creating crayon drawings like they are going out of style this week. I got her to sit down and describe them all to me, and scanned them in and uploaded them to Flickr. “Enjoy looking at them!”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/42942388@N00/sets/72157603221394317

Free playtime

My child has a net on her head (from the Elephun game) and is crawling around on the floor with a flashlight, looking into nooks and crannies. She said she is the worker person who is looking around in things to see if they need to be cleaned. I am supposed to pretend to know she is the worker person, but not know her name. We won’t talk about how much stuff she is going to find that needs to be cleaned!

Culinary adventures

The other night, we were having breakfast for dinner. Brian dunked his bacon in his milk.
Then a couple nights ago, we had peas. The kids had theirs in little bowls. Brian added milk to his and ate them like cereal.
Today at lunch they both put peas in their apple juice.
At least they are eating! I guess.

She's SOOOO sweet!

The other day I was going through some stuff in the basement and found my old Figment doll (a miniature version of “this”:http://www.mouseextra.com/wp-content/uploads/figment_1_07.jpg ) and decided to give it to Marie. I explained that it was mine when I was little, but now I thought that she would enjoy it. (The Figment ride was one of the last ones we went on during our October trip to Disneyworld.)

Just as I suspected, she loved it. She carried it around with her for days.

Last night, as she was getting ready for bed, she told me how much she loved Figment and she was so thankful for me giving it to her. Then she hopped out of bed, went to her tub of stuffed animals, said “I need to find something I _really_ love…” under her breath, and came back to the bed holding her Marie kitty.

“Here daddy, you gave me something you really loved, and so I wanted to give you something I really love. You can sleep with my Marie kitty.”

She is adamant that I take it to bed with me each night. And that I bring it to work with me so I don’t get lonely.

Just a typical afternoon

I put Brian in his room for a nap, and he said he wanted to sleep in his nest. Your nest? Yes, he said, pointing to the red crate holding all his books. Ok then. We emptied it out, I lined it with two towels and sat him inside. It didn’t look too comfy to me, but he was happy as a clam so I said goodnight and went downstairs…
To find Marie sitting in the middle of the floor, box of crayons emptied out all around her, big pile of kleenex that Brian had emptied on the floor earlier next to her as well. She said “Mom, I laid 25 eggs and they all hatched into chicks and I’m feeding them chick food with whipped cream.” I missed so much while I was upstairs! She had taken a kleenex and wadded it up around a blue crayon (blue whipped cream) and was squirting it on some kleenexes to feed to her chicks which are actually the crayons. I said ok, then went back upstairs to see how Brian was doing in his nest. He is sitting in there reading a book to himself, happy as can be, didn’t even notice I stuck my head in the doorway. I didn’t disturb him. I’m on my way to help with the chicks now.

Back from the Beach

Hi, we’re back from a lovely trip to “Corolla Beach”:http://www.outerbanks.com/corolla/ on the Outer Banks of North Carolina with our friends. Marie and Brian both had a wonderful time, we got plenty of time on the beach and in the sand, and I think they are both still getting sand out of their various body parts.

By the way, while we were gone we got our floors refinished by “Nic-Lor Floors”:http://nic-lorfloors.com/ and we will happily recommend them to others. They did a great job for a great price.

Pictures will be forthcoming soon. I know I’m terribly behind on pictures. I try and update them on the website at the same time I send them to the “Ceivas”:http://www.ceiva.com but it doesn’t always work to everyone’s benefit…