Edith has been kind of into pretending to do our makeup and hair lately. My hair was getting pretty long a few weeks ago, so once my makeup was finished I helped Edith do my hair in "pigtails". She was so happy with the results. I do look rather fetching.
We had a pretty serious bout of inversion air, so I tried to make sure we were occupied doing fun things indoors. It sure is nice to hang out together.
I was the big loser at Rack-o.
Edith informed me that the reason she's so good at playing Trio is because her hands are so big. She's right, her hands are huge.
I took pictures the last time we did this floor puzzle, but just couldn't resist taking more. It's the pigtails. They kill me. Waaay better than mine.
Bud competed in his school's spelling bee this year. They started including the 3rd graders a few years ago, even though they can't go on in competition if they win. It was a good experience for him and he did a great job. Bud missed his word in the 5th round and, of course, "pulitzer" was the only word he didn't know in that round. Isn't that how it always is?
Big lost his very first tooth! He wouldn't wiggle it or attempt in any way to speed its demise, so it just kind of fell out into his mouth while he was walking in the hall at school. He told me about it when I showed up at his class to volunteer. Talk about a happy kid!
It really is a lot of fun hanging out with Edith during the day. She's such a great conversationalist! And it made me feel so good when I told her that she's the cutest and she responded, "No, you're the cutest! And, you're the best mother." Thanks, Edith. That was just what I needed to hear.
Talking non-stop can wear a person out, though.
It's not all about play when Edith and I are together, though. Luckily she likes to work, too.
The best part of working is the relaxing you get to do afterward. Especially if it's relaxing in a fort.
Thankfully we got some snow to clear the air so we could spend a little time outdoors. I told Edith we could build her very first snowman after we shoveled the driveway, but the snow was too powdery. Luckily she was happy to just play together instead.
The next day the snow was perfect.
On February 8th I helped Ginger throw a brunch birthday party. I served waffles with berries, whipped cream, and buttermilk syrup, chicken and apple breakfast sausage, cheesy scrambled eggs, orange juice, and chocolate milk. Ten 12/13 year old girls can make a good amount of noise, especially when playing team Pictionary. It was a lot of fun to watch Ginger with her friends. I hope she had a blast.
Last week was a little bit crafty. Edith painted some rock magnets while I painted some knobs for the child-sized hutch we were putting in her room.
I got off pretty easy this year when it comes to Valentine's boxes. Bud decided to reuse the one we made last year, so I only had to collaborate with Big on his. We were pretty proud of the results and it only took about 15 minutes to make. Perfect.
Tuesday the 11th was a pretty busy day for Ginger. During the day she got braces:
She had basketball practice after school (no picture). And then in the evening we got to go see Ginger be inducted into the National Junior Honor Society. It was nice.
We were kind of laughing during the ceremony about how even though Pen was in the NJHS, we never went to any ceremony. She didn't let us know about it. Kind of like how we didn't even know she was in the elementary school spelling bee until after she won the whole thing… Ha!
I went to the elementary school on Valentine's Day to help with Big's class party. I made frosting and was in charge of the frosting-cookies station. Knowing that compulsive knife licking is pretty par for the course in first grade, we had enough knives for all and I put a dollop of frosting on each plate. With some of the sprinkle mountains kids were creating on their cookies I was sure we wouldn't have enough sprinkles to last, but they did. Kind of a loaves and fishes moment. Or something.
It was super nice to have the day off yesterday for President's Day. I always look forward to the chance to hang with my honey. My sister-in-law, Jazz Hands, was in town with her youngest, so we got together at Art's house so we could all see each other. It was loads of fun.
I have been doing this old-school-but-awesome workout called Callanetics lately. Edith loves it. She came up to me last night right before bed and asked me to take a picture of her doing "Warm-up #3". It made my evening. So funny.
The weather was really great today-- clear skies, fairly warm-- so I knew it was time to get out for our first tricycle ride of the year. I was amazed at how much she has grown since we last went in the fall! The tricycle seat needs to be moved back to the last spot, that's for sure. It was really fun to be out together. I think it invigorated both of us. Seriously, such a cutie.
I'm hoping to maybe get a picture or two of Pen in the next post. Time for forced picture taking, it seems. We'll see how that goes...
2 comments:
Wow, so fun. Your pigtails were awesome. In a funny way, not really an awesome way. ha ha They were hilarious. I love the birthday brunch idea! Fun.
I love the pics. Edith really does look adorable in pigtails!
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