It's about time
I figured it was about time I posted again. Now, don't get your hopes up, it's not going to be anything spectacular, just a way to persuade myself that I haven't completely lost touch with cyber-world.
Alice has recently developed an interest in mazes. I download them from various sites and print them out for her but she goes through them amazingly fast that I can barely keep up.
She's very much into art and anything artistic and I try to let her express herself artistically even if it means that her seals are rainbow colored and her elephants have green trunks. And when I question her choice of color and remind her that elephants are generally grey all around, she calmly informs me that THIS elephant stuck his nose in a bucket of green paint.
We went through a bit of a dry spell in her reading, but thanks to The Learning Company's "Interactive Reading Journey" game, she has gained a love for reading that up until now, I've only dreamed of.
Math is a subject she likes a lot and she's doing very good with her spelling and phonics. Though, of course, nothing beats our art project day in her list of favorite things to do.
Yesterday she made a fruit basket out of modeling clay complete with an apple and a tomato.
Since I started doing face-painting more regularly, she also decided that she wanted to become a face painter, so at every oppertunity, she practices on herself, creating her own ideas of faces to make such as an apple, which came out quite well, and a waterfall, the idea of which was quite brilliant, however, the application of it looked very close to something out of a horror movie.
Evlyne has invented a game for her times outdoor. First, she picks up all the pebbles she can find and carefully inserts one between each of her toes. Then she ambles over to the caravan where she proceeds to dump handfuls of pebbles in the holes of the wheel. It's a game that can enthrall her for up to a half hour straight!
She loves playing in the sand box, dunping the sand neatly outside of the box.
She's quite a stickler for tidying up and has discovered the joy of throwing things in the trash. While I appreciate her efforts at cleaning, I do find I have to intervene when her books, my socks and Alice's t-shirt ends up in said trash can. -at least she means well!
She's finally getting her last few teeth. Teething has been tough on her; far worse than I remember it being for Alice. But she remians (mostly) her cheerful little self. The picture is of her favorite "showing off my teeth" face. She is actually a very pretty baby, but her smile is so goofy that it tends to outshine her other beautiful features.
Coming soon are a few (extremely belated) pics of Alice's birthday party. I just needa get them off Tino's computer (a feat not as easy as it may sound!).
Till then,
Cheerio
Alice has recently developed an interest in mazes. I download them from various sites and print them out for her but she goes through them amazingly fast that I can barely keep up.She's very much into art and anything artistic and I try to let her express herself artistically even if it means that her seals are rainbow colored and her elephants have green trunks. And when I question her choice of color and remind her that elephants are generally grey all around, she calmly informs me that THIS elephant stuck his nose in a bucket of green paint.
We went through a bit of a dry spell in her reading, but thanks to The Learning Company's "Interactive Reading Journey" game, she has gained a love for reading that up until now, I've only dreamed of.
Math is a subject she likes a lot and she's doing very good with her spelling and phonics. Though, of course, nothing beats our art project day in her list of favorite things to do.
Yesterday she made a fruit basket out of modeling clay complete with an apple and a tomato.
Since I started doing face-painting more regularly, she also decided that she wanted to become a face painter, so at every oppertunity, she practices on herself, creating her own ideas of faces to make such as an apple, which came out quite well, and a waterfall, the idea of which was quite brilliant, however, the application of it looked very close to something out of a horror movie.
Evlyne has invented a game for her times outdoor. First, she picks up all the pebbles she can find and carefully inserts one between each of her toes. Then she ambles over to the caravan where she proceeds to dump handfuls of pebbles in the holes of the wheel. It's a game that can enthrall her for up to a half hour straight!
She loves playing in the sand box, dunping the sand neatly outside of the box.
She's quite a stickler for tidying up and has discovered the joy of throwing things in the trash. While I appreciate her efforts at cleaning, I do find I have to intervene when her books, my socks and Alice's t-shirt ends up in said trash can. -at least she means well!
She's finally getting her last few teeth. Teething has been tough on her; far worse than I remember it being for Alice. But she remians (mostly) her cheerful little self. The picture is of her favorite "showing off my teeth" face. She is actually a very pretty baby, but her smile is so goofy that it tends to outshine her other beautiful features.
Coming soon are a few (extremely belated) pics of Alice's birthday party. I just needa get them off Tino's computer (a feat not as easy as it may sound!).
Till then,
Cheerio
