Rainy days are rare here, but when they come, it’s nice to spend a cozy morning, coloring at the table.
Category Archive for 'Tommy'
From this: To this: Guess which child had a screaming temper tantrum in the polling place while I filled out my ballot this morning? It’s amazing what a simple hand-me-down photo shoot prop can do to a child’s psyche!
I forgot to post this earlier this week–the kids convinced Daddy to carve our first real pumpkin moonshine!
Tommy’s Costume
Posted in Tommy on Oct 30th, 2012
Tommy won’t be with Little Bear and Little Sal at tomorrow night’s fall festival–he’s flying to Grandma’s today (with Derek, who has some work stuff back home this week)! So here’s his costume ahead of time. Get it? He’s Tintin (and Ellie is Snowy)! He asked to be him last year, but I wanted him […]
Disneyland
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Susanna, Tommy on Oct 29th, 2012
When our friends Greg and Melanie found out that the kids and I had never been to a theme park, they offered to take us to Disneyland with his employee guest passes! We took them up on their offer on Saturday. I wore my detested SI joint belt and took both my nausea meds before […]
Underwood, Again
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Friends, Susanna, Tommy on Oct 24th, 2012
When another Pepperdine homeschool family asked us if we wanted to hit up the pumpkin patch, we didn’t have to think twice! The kids love Underwood Farms, and we spent another three hours there on Monday! If festive pictures are this hard with three kids, should I even bother trying with four? Evelyn and Marianne […]
Apple Pumpkin Prints
Posted in Friends, Homeschooling, Tommy on Oct 12th, 2012
This week, I did a kid swap with a homeschooling friend from church–I took Joey for the morning, and she took Elizabeth to play with her daughter. Joey loves arts and crafts, so Tommy and I decided we’d plan a fun art project, and we got the idea to do apple stencils from pinterest. The […]
I feel like my blog posts of late have been variations on a theme–Tommy is reading or riding bikes, Elizabeth is dancing, Susie is trying on other people’s shoes. Here are scenes from the last couple of days. Somebody fell asleep reading Winnie-the-Pooh… Having “crashed” both real bikes and the baby scooter, Tommy turns to […]
Fall Field Trip to Underwood Farms!
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Friends, Homeschooling, Susanna, Tommy on Oct 5th, 2012
It is so nice to know people where we live. Last year, we visited the pumpkin patch by ourselves. This year, we went with a homeschool group from church, and the kids had ten times as much fun running around with their friends! Tommy recently met his new friend Jonah at Community Bible Study, and […]
On Friday, our friend James came over to play–and he brought a whole bag of dress-up clothes with him! As soon as we saw that James had a flight suit, Tommy ran and put on his own flight suit so that they could be astronaut firefighters together. Then Elizabeth found a generic costume that we […]