Re: photos.. pre-sleeping sleepover makeover

Re: photos.. pre-sleeping sleepover makeover

Kids got dressed up, posed for a few photos, and are now dancing to
Psy's Gangam Style...

5x7 Folded Card

Stars And Peace Christmas Card

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Poppies and daisies

Zoë's painting from tonight.. The lights in the kitchen are giving it a pink tint

Treasure hunt

Zoë and Finn are playing treasure hunt, a new favorite sibling activity... Here is one of Zoë's maps

Story in french.

The translation is roughly:

I played with my cat and my cat played the friend!

I picked the flower with my friend and the friend picked the flower!

Accents part two

Accents

Telling the ending

On Sunday, Zoe and I had a bit of a war going on... I was trying to watch the 90 minute finale of Avatar: the last air bender, and the show was kind of intense... Zoe kept asking me if she could tell me how it was going to end... Well, that is a pet peeve of mine and I refused to let this 6 year old, even if she is as cute as can be, and 6, tell me how the show was going to end... She tried to watch it with me, but just got more and more wound up... I started issuing idle threats, and then more threats, including grounding her to her room.. I know, over kill, but I was trying to also explain how important it was to me to see the end unspoiled... But she too got more and more upset to the point she was throwing things and crying... I stopped the show and took her to her room, where we had a little chat... In my discovery, and by putting myself in her shoes, I reasoned out that watching that show was a bit Intense for her and she was trying to spare me the feelings she had when she watched it for the first time... I explained how I really appreciated her looking out for me, how grateful I was that she cared, but how she needed to see my side, as I saw hers... That I love surprises, that there is something about watching something for the first time...  I set her up with her own show in her bedroom,and finished Avatar without her.

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"Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand."
Chinese Proverb

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Bath fun

We also played with obliq.. Cornstarch and water...

Bath tub fun

We have been experimenting with bath tub fun... Previously we have done a lot of glow in the dark tub time...
Today a package came, full of green styrofoam ...

Nana, Zoë made this drawing book for you

Nana, We will mail you the book when it is done, but I could not resist sending it to you.
Love, Amy and Zoë

Slumber...

I got the 10 pm phone call...Zoë was crying..I couldn't make out much of what she said... Madison's mom said it was that Zoe said "I could come get her if I wanted to..." Of course I wanted to... But I didn't say that ... I gave her 10 more minutes to see if she wanted to stay.. but they called me up and I went to get her.

It turns out that she had probably fallen asleep on her own, but either Owen (the little brother) or Madison woke her up and then she was startled, tired, and couldn't get back to sleep.

 

Halloween!

We had a lovely Halloween yesterday.. I picked up the kids early (after Zoe got out of school) so they'd have some down time.. gathered up costumes, makeup, bags, jackets, etc. and we picked up Bruce and went to Kirsten and Asha's, meeting up with Lise and Claire.  I tried my hardest to put purple eyelashes on Zoe, but they just would not stick.. she was very frustrated and mad at me (I had put my fake lashes on that morning and wore them all day).  But she got out of that rut, we fed the kids pizza spirals, we had fabulous soup and this amazing Italian bread that I must go buy...  Then we headed out the house.. after 2 days of solid rain, we were really lucky.. it even managed to warm up a little.  The girls were off running together.. gaining more momentum the more candy they had, and poor Finn was left behind.. it soon got to him and he was ready to go back to Kirsten's.  Bruce went with Lise and the girls and Kirsten and I headed back.. we saw the Bonfire, or as the kids say: "Bomb Fire", which is this huge house size pile of wood in the parking lot of the firestation... but it was just getting started and the firemen were not letting the kids at the hoses yet (they usually let them hold the hose).  The rain sprinkled a little, but it was mostly a perfect night.

Back at Kirsten's Finn spent the rest of the night handing out candy.. he loved it... I didn't see him again until we were ready to leave (when the candy for the door ran out).

When Zoe and the girls came back.. they all ran into the room with their bags.. Asha immediately dumped hers on the table and wanted everyone to pick what they wanted. Claire dumped hers on and then wondered where hers was, starting to scoop up everything.. Zoe cautiously started to put hers out, but I kind of got in the way.. in the end we dumped them all together and divided it up... first all the girls got to pick the things they wanted, then we just looked for 3 of each thing and divided it up.. after that it was divided by the moms easily and fast.. narrowly escaped what could have been a bad situation... they were all getting tired. We hung out until nearly 8.. got the kids home fast and in bed... they were asleep very fast.

pictures up soon