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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Randomness

Lots of little tidbits to report...

1) Liv continues to love kindergarten - here's her first official school picture.  Very exciting for us to see an actual (if partial) smile this year!  Yesterday, Olivia and I stayed home after a couple of rough nights coughing and a low-grade fever - we made a trip to the doctor's office and came home with antiboiotics - bronchitis and an ear infection (only her second ever).  She was definitely a little off yesterday but seemed in solid spirits this morning - she was very excited to return to school!  I'm looking forward to getting a teacher report of her progress at conferences in a couple of weeks.


2) Masks:  Last weekend, we made Grace's Halloween mask for preschool.  Needless to say, she was super excited about doing this little project - and I'm happy she picked a mask that was possible for my not-artistically-incined self!  I was majorly impressed with her dedication and focus - she worked on her mask for probably a hour.  Liv also made a butterfly mask, but instead of posing with that, she was excited to wear her "cough mask" from the doctor's.


3) Yodeling:  This definitely qualifies as random.  I guess from some movie they watched at Shannon's the girls learned how to yodel.  Grace was wondering around yodeling one day, and while I didn't catch on first, I finally figured out what she was doing - wish you could hear them - hilarious.  But honestly, they're pretty good at it!  You can see from the pictures, they thinking yodeling is great entertainment and an opportunity for silliness!  :)


4) Camera skills:  Olivia, since this summer especially, has been really interested in taking pictures with my camera.  I took a random picture of the girls and Brian last night which resulted in her trying to take some too - she's especially interested in fixing hair and adjusting clothing as this was a part of our family picture taking process from a couple of weeks ago.  (Pictures coming soon!)  You can see that Olivia still needs some work on actually taking a picture of her target - this is the best picture of the 20 or so she took!  :)


5) Drawing:  Within seconds of coming down for breakfast and getting home from daycare, Grace asks for a blank-page and a pen.  She's really into drawing these days - especially people.  Here's some of her (and one of Olivia's) blank-page creations.

 Olivia's...family, favorite words, and practice e's.

 When I asked her what this was, Grace started to tell me
this was a butterfly, but she quickly changed her story
telling me it was just "something cool."

Grace's people - pretty decent!

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