fishy fishy

Love this fish Abby made with leaves at her after school program ....

bunnies

A recent work of art from Abby -- entitled "bunneis evrware" or "bunnies everywhere".

Watch out for the bunnies!

weekending

Beautiful weather. Preschool picnic, painting play dates, playground visits.

rainy sunday

Watercolors in the morning.

clay date

We bought a "Clay Date for 4" at last year's preschool auction and put it to good use this weekend with Abby and three of her buddies. Beautiful mugs, bowl, and plate were created and the girls had a blast. Will be fun to pick up the finished products!

playdate

Fun times with A+A...

wearable art

Finished an art project? Tape it to your chin!

what's abby up to?

In case anyone was wondering what Abby is up to these days ... she's been very busy writing and drawing.  Please don't offer to spell words anymore. She prefers HER spelling.  A few examples:

"Bees can fly" (and something else in the lower left hand corner I can't remember what it says)

"This is a fish"

"Butterfly"

She's got first and middle name down.  Spelling of last name proves to be a bit more challenging.  Butterflies she did draw all by herself!

"Brontosaurus dinosaur"

"Ladybugs buzz and fly and have legs"

"A poisonous cricket" (and below, another attempt at last name spelling)

At Nate's request ... a "dump truck"

Most of the words to the book "I love trucks".

 

fingerpainting

Nothing says "welcome home papa" more than a messy craft like fingerpainting!

The dots approach.

My fingers are red!

Squish, smear, smoosh.

More dots, which eventually lead to giant smears.

Dot dot dot dot dot dot...

The artist has a serious moment.

 

hi october

Celebrating October with a Very Special Halloween Shirt from Grandma!  (And a fun new haircut...)

Nate finally stops putting crayons in his mouth for long enough to be given a chance to try to scribble a little!  Yay Nate!

Busy bees.

Put them in, take them out, put them in, take them out ....

farewell january

Farewell (almost) to January! We're hoping that February is a healthier month (Christmas cold lingers on!) and brings us a little closer to a new rhythm with our days now that we have two worker-bees in the house again.
We stuck close to home this weekend......Abby tries on Papa's gloves:

You may also notice that Abby is wearing her swimsuit over her clothes. You probably wouldn't have guessed that she also slept in it (over jammies) on Friday and Saturday night! Tonight she is snoozing swimsuit-free upstairs in her bed. Maybe she's still dreaming of summer though. Even after hearing a couple of months ago about fellow troublemaker Annabelle's sudden wintertime love for her swimsuit, we did not tuck Abby's swimsuit far enough back in her closet for it not to become an item of interest.

Nate plays a tune on the piano with Papa. Remind you of someone else we know?

Nate and Abby share an intense gaze over morning waffles.

Abigail fingerpaints the world's largest blueberry. (World's largest strawberry already completed.)

Blue hands!

The artist at work.

lovey colors

"Oh, hi guys! Just looking out the window, as usual..."

Abigail is lured to the porch by the promise of crayons and paper - hooray!

Getting the hang of the scribble.

But then, oops, this seemed to Abigail like a good idea at the time....

Yuckers. Crayons are not tasty.....(remember that next time Abigail...)