It is so fun to pull out my favorite clothes from my own childhood and see Elizabeth enjoying them just as much as I did!
Second Generation Jumper
Mar 16th, 2016 by ECM
My laundry-sorting card table has been serving as the frame of a tent the last week or so. I came down this morning to find all the girls in the tent, listening to The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and sucking fingers/thumbs, and chilling out.
Playbased preschool=scissors, tape, and a cardboard box
The Bear Princess Playing a Game
Mar 8th, 2016 by ECM
The Nine Labors of Tommycles
Mar 6th, 2016 by ECM
For Tommy’s birthday, he and his band of 13 other brave men quested to complete 9 labors for glory, honor, and cupcakes.
Labor One: Create shields using duct tape. (Perfect for using up old packing boxes!)
Labor Two: Fight the evil one-eyed cyclops monster using only their swords. (Cyclops ended up flying away in terror…)
Labor Three: Free team flags from their frozen enchantments. (I’d been planning on having them use super soakers to melt the ice, but the boys decided it was more fun to hurdle the ice chunks around until they broke apart.)
Labor Four: Play Capture the Flag with rescued flags. (Thankfully, a few of the other boys had read Percy Jackson, too, and made the tenuous connection to Greek Mythology.)
Labor Five: Defeat Medusa by pulling the (balloon) snakes off her head without being frozen. (We honestly could have played freeze tag all afternoon.)
Labor Six: Destroy the skeleton army. (Derek made the pinata himself. I’m never paying for one again!)
Labor Seven: Feed Cerberus (heads created with cones) bocce balls to sneak into the Underworld.
Labor Eight: Win Olympic glory with discus hurling.
Labor Nine: Feast on pizza!
Conclusion: Sing to the birthday boy and enjoy the well-earned cupcakes.
Friday Night Game Night
Mar 4th, 2016 by ECM
Hosted the Pepperdine Law School board games club (faculty sponsor: Professor Muller) tonight. Feeding 8 twenty-something boys is much more satisfying that cooking for a bunch of skinny SoCal girls. Double batches of homemade pizza and chocolate chip cookies went, and there’s salad left over for tomorrow…
Sunset, Again
Mar 3rd, 2016 by ECM
Mist on the Mountains
Mar 2nd, 2016 by ECM
Picture taken by Tommy on my phone, from our back porch.
Bedtime Readers
Feb 25th, 2016 by ECM
Janie reading to the dolls…
And the big kids reading to each other…
Tommy, Church Reader!
Feb 22nd, 2016 by ECM
Tommy was asked to help do the scripture reading before the sermon at both services yesterday. He did a great job reading in front of an auditorium of hundreds of people!
