and then I chuckled
Jimmy encouraged her to pick a real language for her “Language Report” so she switched to Italian. We’ll see if that one is a little easier to understand. Oh – how I laughed about the Pig latin though.
Abe brought home his Persuasive Paragraph from school. I liked his choice of topic… how awesome his dad is.
First Piano Recital
Miss Hannah has been taking piano lessons since the Fall from our friend & neighbor, Wendy Rencher. She is such a fabulous teacher. This month, Hannah participated in her first piano recital. She played Three Blind Mice & Ode to Joy. She has learned so much and seems to be a natural at learning music. I believe she thoroughly enjoys it too. Our entire family enjoyed the recital, especially Max who had a comment about most every song played. Grandma & Grandpa Price & Uncle John came to support. It was a fun evening and Hannah looked darling! Go Hannah!
Hi. My name is Bob.
Wanna get to know Miss Hannah? Well… this is an example of the type of story she comes up with. Where does she think of these things? She really is a clever creative imaginative girl. She’s had this funny thing for months about how she calls anything and everything Bob… so mostly it was funny that she named the monkey Bob (wait – that monkey is a girlie with a flower… should have been Bobelina which is another favorite name of hers). And interesting that she finds things like this hilarious. She must have 3 little brothers. Anyhoo… Enjoy!
haiku for spring
A Haiku poem has 3 lines.
Lines 1 and 3 have 5 syllables.
Line 2 has 7 syllables.
Haiku poems are usually about nature.
Abe came home from school this week with his book of poems. I really liked this one and thought it quite clever for 2nd grader Abe.
I asked Hannah to write one about tulips (since hers last year was about a boy named Tyler) so we could hang both Hannah & Abe’s poems in our home.
sisters … sisters … there were never such devoted sisters …
seriously? more pictures? what happens when the sun comes out and the grass turns green? we spend half of our life outside. because i’ve missed color so much during wintertime, I delight in attempting to capture things. my camera is a 1, my photography is about a 2.5 … but the memories of these little people are about a 10+. ‘Liza’s hair is getting so thick. I tried to put gel on it to help the curls come out a little. She wouldn’t look up because it was too bright… even though it was completely overcast. Sensitive little girlie. She had a delightful afternoon dancing with Hannah. She giggled so much. I hope these girls are darling friends ever more.
Sunshine makes us happy
Truman loves being outdoors.
The outdoors loves Truman.
Mom loves the “flower” Truman picked for her.
This might be one of my favorite pictures ever…
from the hole in the jeans, to the superman shirt…
to the cheerful dandelion… to the bare feet…. to the green grass…
to the squinty eyes from the sun.
Truman is a darling little soul.
And when he’s happy … he IS happy.
Then he took his dandelion and boinged it along all the tulips on his way inside. Boing… Boing… Boing.
a bit of the happenings
Today is Crazy Hair Day at School. We’re “Crazy” about Getting FIT day.
‘Liza’s 2nd top tooth is breaking through today. She is so awesome at crawling this week.She’s finally caught the vision of the joy in movement. Really she’s “Crazy” about getting FIT! She’s also finally decided to start swallowing some of that baby food we feed her. I think the magic food was beans and also Jimmy’s fabulous feeding skills.
And the final glorious news about Zuzu is that she slept for longer than 8 hours in the middle of the night. I know – she’s 8 months old. We’ve tried. We’ve made her cry forever. She’s full of drama though. But the past 2 nights she’s just stayed asleep. Fabulous. Perhaps it’s all that glorious exercise she is getting. Crawl baby crawl. Eat baby eat. Sleep baby Sleep!
Hannah did the mile run yesterday in P.E. She was disappointed because in all other areas she hit the Presidential level… but in the run she will get National. She’s awesome. I hope she knows it.
I have a wicked cold. I was in bed all day yesterday… well, as much as a mom can be. Poor Jimmy has had to endure all my essential oils (that I can’t smell with this clogged nose). Hoping to feel better soon.
It’s supposed to be 80 this weekend. We are cleaning out the garage. Oh joy!
A bit of our weekend
On Friday I decided to be really brave & take the 3 littles to Thanksgiving Point to cash in on our free membership we won. We quickly zipped through the Dinosaur Museum. Max and Tru were scared of the dinosaurs. But they did great & obeyed quite well. Eliza fell asleep in the Ergo Carrier (love it, by the way!).
Then after the school tots got home I decided to be really brave & try to walk/ride bikes to the Pettit’s across the neighborhood. It took us 20 minutes with Max and Tru doddling when it was their turn to walk. Zuzu loved the stroller and quietly drank her bottle. We ended up having Jimmy come pick us up. Wimps. I could tell I was already getting sunburned though. Abe & Hannah rode their bikes home and loved the freedom of being on their own.
Saturday – fence day. Aeration day. Sunburn day. Windy day. Conference day!