Hanging out at the bookstore

Sitting, falling

Claudia will sit a little, sometimes, sort of. She needs me to hold onto her, even if it's just barely. And if she gets distracted at all, she falls over. She's clearly not taking this seriously at all.

Sleeping

Picture taken today and at around a week old. She's always been into her fingers and refuses a pacifier.

Claudia and her great grandma

Carseat

Sometimes we like the car seat.
Sometimes we don't.

Jumper

She still doesn't really get it.

Morning nap

Someone's tired after getting me up at 5:30. She was sleeping through the night till this week. I've been waiting for her to figure out that she's been going way to easy on us.

Sitting

Claudia

Frozen yogurt

Our garden so far

Road trip!

Federation

Waiting for scores.

My garden

My garden is already underway this year. Last year (my first year I had a garden) I bought only plants and put them straight into my beds outside. This time I bought fancy heirloom seeds and am starting them inside. This snow has me worried that I started them too early. But we'll see. They still have time to hang out inside. So far I've started a few types of tomatoes and a few types of peppers.

Imogen quote:

"They just handed me a hotdog in a bun, no cosmetics or anything!"

Genevieve, laughing hysterically, "Why am I so hilarious!?"

My yard thinks it's spring

And it's in for a rude awakening today. My tulips are trying to come up and the purple flowers that bloom all over my yard every year are making an appearance. Stay asleep little flowers! The world isn't safe for you yet.

Genevieve cut her hair again

She has long thick beautiful hair. But she hates caring for it. So today we had it all cut off. She had more than enough to donate so we will send it to Locks of Love.

Starting the day off right

The girls got Starbucks gift cards for Christmas.

At the bookstore

Ancient Greek Paper Dolls

Knitted dish clothes

There is something very fun about these. Probably the fact that each one took about a day. I've only been knitting a couple months and I'm still slow. So this is as close to instant gratification as I can get.

Chirstmas yummies

Charcoal

Today we did some simple charcoal drawings. When the girls are learning a new medium, I tell them to draw flowers. They are something simple that can be complicated or can be imaginary and don't have to be realistic at all. There is a lot of freedom there and if things turn out badly, it's still a flower.

Various things

A pop up ziggurat book

We decided to catch a spider and put it in a jar with twigs and observe it building a web. We planned to catch bugs for it to eat. Unfortunately, it died only a couple hours after we caught it. 

I burn light bulb candles when we need good ideas. Just kidding. Elaine's mother made this and it's pretty awesome. 

It makes people happy!

First Week of School

We've started school this week and we're off to a great start. We are studying ancient history this year which is something both girl love.

Hmmm...

Ok so maybe hair doesn't exactly get brushed before we start. 

Reading about Gilgamesh.

We drew in our nature journals this week. Imogen found these wings on the back porch.

Making a clay tablet.

And making up our own pictograph language.