I have so many little matters to tell you of, that I cannot wait any longer before I begin to put them down.
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Susanna, Tommy on Dec 10th, 2012
We spent Sunday afternoon up at the Santa Barbara Zoo’s Snow Leopard Festival. The way people out here do “winter” is to import a bunch of fake snow and then charge parents an arm and a leg to stand in line for 15 minutes at a time so that the kids can “sled” down a […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Sewing Projects on Dec 5th, 2012
After putting all my sewing stuff away Sunday night, I decided that I really did want to try one more shirt dress while it was all fresh in my mind. So I pulled everything out again during naptime Monday and totally blew off cleaning the kitchen, sorting junk in the garage so Derek can pull […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Sewing Projects on Dec 3rd, 2012
Since I had my sewing machine out this weekend, anyway, I thought I’d take my Sunday afternoon to whip up a shirt dress for Elizabeth. I found this tutorial for turning a man’s dress shirt into a little girl’s dress, and I’ve been saving Derek’s worn out work shirts for months. Well, they were pretty […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Tommy on Nov 28th, 2012
This actually happened a couple weeks ago, but I never got around to posting the pictures. This year, we did a real Christmas ornament-making extravaganza. The kids love messy art projects, so I’m trying to get back into doing them now that I’m no longer tossing my cookies. We used the recipe and baking directions […]
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Susanna on Nov 26th, 2012
What? Your girls don’t play outside in a tutu or sleeveless dress at the end of November?
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Family, Susanna, Tommy on Nov 23rd, 2012
This year, we introduced Grandma and Grandpa and Uncle Matthew to the joys of cutting down your own tree. Last year we walked down to the tree lot (just outside our subdivision) in flip flops and sweated buckets sawing and sawing at the tree. This year Derek literally had the whole tree cut in under […]
We’re stretching out Christmas this year, celebrating our first Christmas morning today with Grandma and Grandpa Muller and Uncle Matthew. Same Christmas pajamas as last year–they still fit in them (though Susie’s are a bit small)! Matching dresses! (And Elizabeth is relieved that she doesn’t have to share Betsy anymore!) Now I’m off to start […]
Posted in Elizabeth on Nov 15th, 2012
It stinks to be the only parent at home on nights when the one night potty-trained child in the house decides to wet the bed at 2:30 am (fortunately having climbed back into her own from her snuggle fest with Tommy at bedtime so I’m not peeling soaked pajamas off both of them), wakes up […]
Posted in Elizabeth on Nov 14th, 2012
I realized in bed last night that yesterday was Elizabeth’s three-and-a-half year birthday! Time for a little update just on her. She still gallops everywhere, dances in ballet class or in the living room, loves to be read to, and loves to help cook. She’s so helpful about folding washcloths, washing windows with a sock, […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Friends, Homeschooling, Tommy on Nov 12th, 2012
I’m trying hard to do more messy art projects with the kids now that we’re officially doing kindergarten, and I got this idea on pinterest. We harvested the seeds from a couple of our smaller pumpkins, painted them, and used them to make autumn tree art projects with our friend James. I helped Elizabeth with […]