So, here mid-February I attempt to catch up on a few months of happenings and pictures.
Dressed up for Christmas Sunday
David started this year doing a daily devotional reading from Genesis and then doing a Lego challenge that fit that day's reading. The first day of reading included God creating plants and separating the land and the water. The second day of reading was the sun and stars in the sky. I love how creative my son got with these assignments!
One day while I was gone, Michael snapped these pictures of the kiddos. The image of A in her pink Barbie dress with the Darth Vader mask is such a perfect image of this little juxtaposition. She is a girl of extremes. This shows up almost daily. And her inner struggle to grow up is very real. She tells me she wants to be a baby still. See her family portrait--drawn this week-- of her (purple dot) as a baby still in Mommy's tummy...but when she asks why she has only a little cereal, she somehow isn't so sure of being a "little" girl.
And then there were some really cold days! (see posts on snow and more snow/ice!) E insisted on wearing an old baby fleece hat...the same one she wore when she was 2 and 3 years old!
Other days the girls sported head scarfs and bathrobes while doing school.
The kids had been taken with the sequin "flip" pillows that were everywhere this year. When Krogers had some on clearance for a dollar apiece, I bought each child one. E used hers to make the most artistic pictures imaginable. What a gal! This is her first picture. Quite obviously a girl and boy holding hands under the word love.
My other little girl is also an artist but more in the vein of the modernists. She has a wacky but fun sense of color and she is a natural cartoonist. Look at her self-portrait!
Shortly after Christmas, A leaned down at the table and came up crying. She declared she had bumped her eye. I looked. All seemed fine and I didn't think much more of it. 24 hours later, she had a huge bump right above the eye. And it was a bit red. By two days later, her eye had turned black. It proceeded to turn every shade in the rainbow for 2 whole weeks! We joked that she looked like she was wearing eyeshadow on one eye. She wasn't so excited about that but still smiled and posed for a few pictures over the days.
As usual, there was some dressing up these months--one day was cowboys, another day some sort of super-girl/fairy/evening get-up.
The kids have also played with the usual legos. There were a few creations by David...and duplo creations by all kids one afternoon: dragons and eagles.
David too has instigated quite a few water fights. The kids are loving living on a cul-de-sac and ride bikes constantly. One day I came outside to find them thus:
There have also been a few times in the past week that they have gone swimming (or at least David did). Looking forward to the summer...
(she posed--not my idea)
A quick trip to Kroger with A right before Valentine's Day...no hiding the evidence of the chocolate covered strawberry from her siblings.
Girls with curls
Big furniture boxes generous enough to easily fit all three kids.
Life is settling back to a rhythym. We are loving our new home and loving our time together.
