Who needs toys....

when you have a great box????

budding artist

Grace has started to draw people lately when she's coloring. I took a picture to document this as her first drawing of a person since it couldn't be kept otherwise (it's on the magnadoodle). She was so excited to show me her pictures. She would draw them and then proudly declare to me, "I did that!"
My camera flipped that picture around and I can't figure out how to flip it back...I didn't try that hard to anyway.
This one is of me, Grace and Lucas.

Dancing Princess

Thursday was observation day and costume check for Grace's dance class. I am hopeful that she will dance better this recital because they are tapping and she much prefers tap to ballet.


And I finally made Grace her big, fluffy tutu that I've been promising her for months now. I asked her what color she wanted and all she wanted was blue, blue, blue. If it's an option for anything, she picks blue. It is definitely her favorite color right now.

Just like Sister

Lucas has gotten to where he wants to be doing whatever it is that Grace is doing (she is not always so fond of this...) When she reads a book, he reads a book.
When she skateboards in a hat, he skateboards in a hat.
When she is swinging, he needs to be swinging (although this poor swingset is way past the point of being able to have them both swing without someone holding it down).

He is even starting to fall asleep in funny places like she does!
I love these two little buggers that are such good friends!

feeling like Goldie Hawn

We have a whole bunch of gnats outside this year. I don't ever remember them like they are this year. Well today I was outside with the kids for a minute and walked right through a cluster of them. I have felt like Goldie Hawn in Overboard since....



I am still gagging hours later.

cars for Luke

Grace is not good at sharing cars (despite our lectures/commands/coercion to have her do so) with Lucas. So the other night Luke was so cute stuffing them in his pockets when he could sneak them away from her. His pants were nearly falling down and his legs were jangling when he walked. He was so proud of himself for discovering a use for his pockets!

pardon the outfit...

Don't mind Grace's outfit...we were in the middle of getting jammies on the other night. I had both kids half undressed and Buck came home and found Grace in the hall doing this:



I think she'll end up being an athlete of some sort one day... atleast I hope she will.

perfect day for kites

The weather was so beautiful today. We were outside without jackets because it was so warm. It's crazy windy today too and so we dug out the kite and flew it. Grace did such a good job holding on to it and had so much fun.

class clown

I found a little tumbling class for Grace to take to see if she liked it and she has had a lot of fun. She especially likes having her friend Averee in the class with her. The problem is that there is a lot of standing in line time during class as the teacher helps each kid one at a time so Grace gets easily distracted...


She loves to twirl until she is so dizzy that she falls down (because the whole floor is a big giant mat). Last week she and Averee were twirling each other as you can see on the left here. She is always the first kid to start messing around and then the other kids start to follow. She's an instigator. That little girl in the purple sweats is about the only one in the class that stays in line the whole time and always takes a turn. She has older sisters though that take another class so she has someone's behavior to model...anyway, she can almost do a cartwheel by herself. Grace does somersaults and assisted back-bends. She has fun though.
This picture I was trying to snap while driving because it was this new Mercedes delivering Papa John's pizza and I found it amusing...

sleepy girl

Add this to the list of funny ways Grace has fallen asleep. She's on the couch and the box of cars is between her legs and with her arm wrapped over the top of it. She will carry that box all over the house and sometimes asks to bring it in the car. Sometimes I try to clean up and put some of our other cars in there and the next thing I know, she's realized what I've done and I find a little pile of the reject cars that she doesn't want in there laying around.