Kid Pics

Sleeping Celie

She had to make room for all of her people - Iridessa (a fairy), June, and Leo. She set this up - I just took the picture.

Lunch Pals

Celie, unfortunately, has been getting up earlier than her usual time this week. We are not quite sure why. But she has been fairly good about it except for this morning. Anyway, this past week, she was helping me pack my lunch for work. She wanted me to take someone to work with me. She said that I needed someone with me. Hence, she put Elmo, the Kitty, and Baby Jaguar in my lunch on 3 different days.

When she did it, I told her that I would take a picture of them at my desk so she can see that I REALLY took them to work with me. Below are her animals at work with me. I took these on my phone and emailed them to Bob to show the girls. I am sure a few of the people on the elevator inspecting my lunch bag thought I was a little off, but that is o.k. I like to keep them guessing. :)

What is a Picturematographer?

What is your best guest?

Celie has decided she wants to be one. With an Annasystem. These are her words not ours.





She wants to be a a Photographer, taking pictures in the wild with an Assistant. A lot of role playing with that one around the house. But we like the word Picturematographer much better.

Neighborhood Xmas Partyq

Every year our neighborhood home owner's association sponsors a Xmas Party for the members. This year, I was in charge of it. We had a DJ, Santa & Mrs. Claus, crafts and food. It was quite a feat, but I had some great help. However, I am glad that it is over. The girls were able to meet Santa, but I wasn't able to snap a perfect picture, but this is as good as I got. (Jake was sleeping when this was taken). A lot better than last year - Anna cried and Celie didn't even get close to him.

Fun in the Leaves

The weather has been unseasonably GORGEOUS for this time of year. I will TAKE IT!! So, we have been taking the kids outside so they can enjoy the weather and we can get a little yard work done - yeah right. But this morning, I took the opportunity to take some pictures of the kids hanging around (literally - Celie) and playing in the leaves. It is amazing how big they are getting.

Halloween @ School

The girls had a Halloween Parade at school. Me, being the nervous parent - more nervous for Bob having to deal with both girls and Jake at the parade - thought it probably wouldn't be a great idea for the girls to have complicated costumes - because if they LOVED them too much, then they wouldn't want to take them off - and the parade was only for 15 minutes. So, Celie decided that it was OK for her to be KaiLan - who is a character from Nick Jr. She is a chinese and has a lot of friends and she speaks English and Chinese - Celie will often call things by their chinese name. So, here is a picture of the girls - with Jake in the KaiLan outfits - Anna decided that it would be fun to be her too. Didn't Bob do a great job on their pigtails & bows? I am very proud of him. And Jake for surviving being between the two.

Fall Photo shoot

I absolutely love getting pictures of the kids in the fall and then getting a good one and using it in our x-mas card/letter. I had planned on trying to take it this year with coordinating outfits, everyone looking at me and smiling. HA! Dream world, I know, but I do believe that I got some great pics of the kids - what do you think?

Camp Out

Celie and Anna wanted to camp out in the living room. So, on Friday night, they got in their sleeping bags and I had a pillow and blanket (& the couch) and we camped out - complete with a movie and popcorn too.

When Bob came downstairs with Jake, Anna woke up and went upstairs to lay down in bed (smart girl). So, Bob thought that he would try to get Celie back to sleep by camping out with her. It didn't work - but it made for a great photo op.

Celie school work

I love seeing all of the projects that the girls do. We are devising a gallery system to display them. I am also going to take pictures of them so that I can have the memory without HAVING to save the real thing. I definitely want to keep the EXTRA EXTRA special ones. I have to say, I think the pig might win it. It might be a keeper.

Another cute idea - a scarecrow. Celie was very proud that she made it all by herself.
The cute pig in mud.

Corn

I just can help myself - but I absolutely love seeing what the girls make at school. I love seeing their projects and them growing as they are feeding their minds with wonderful knowledge and learning processes. Today, Celie made this ear of corn. Of course, I thought it was absolutely beautiful. She was very proud of it and told me how he made it. I think that we will need to get a bigger house to keep all of these treasures.

Decorating Girls

I knew that as soon as I started decorating cookies for Anna to take to school, that I wouldn't be able to keep the girls out of my way. So, I set up their own cookie decorating stations. I provided them with cookies, Frosting in a bag for them to squeeze out and sprinkles.

Anna is definitely very interested in the whole process and more patient with it than Celie was. Celie just wanted to eat the frosting.