First time using the firepit that Grandpa Steve lent us!
This is my kids' version of a "tea party." All the trucks and cars were invited.
Just cuteness.
Getting ready for a friends' birthday party.
Check out those braids!
Priceless! Monday, October 5, 2009
Cuteness overload
I've been posting new pictures on facebook, but I forget to update them here. Here are some recent favorites:
First time using the firepit that Grandpa Steve lent us!
This is my kids' version of a "tea party." All the trucks and cars were invited.
Just cuteness.
Getting ready for a friends' birthday party.
Check out those braids!
Priceless!
First time using the firepit that Grandpa Steve lent us!
This is my kids' version of a "tea party." All the trucks and cars were invited. Just cuteness. Getting ready for a friends' birthday party. Check out those braids! Priceless! 
Toys Du Jour
This fall Tyce and Delaney are the last of their friends to start preschool. Their first, highly-anticipated, day is tomorrow. But in the meantime they've been spending a good portion of each day playing around the house with each other. It is amazing to see the games and activities that they come up with. And, of course, there is an accompanying set of props that are in constant rotation at the moment, so I thought I would sum those up:
Two dolls, stripped naked, that have been named "Gus" and "Ozzy" after Aunt Tanager's dogs. Gus and Ozzy have a propensity for rude behavior and sleeping in shoe boxes, with the lids firmly closed.
Three cans containing foam beads, clothes pins, dominoes, and leftover game pieces. These items are usually strewn from one end of the house to the other several times each day and (just today) have functioned as toy dog food, "the solid line" on a street, dinosaur eggs, scrambled worms (ask Grandpa Steve), and truck cargo. If you've got an odd assortment of small items, my kids will find a messy way to use it.
Left-over lumber scraps. While these were very entertaining this summer as "boats" in the wading pool they have since found a new purpose as "rocket packs." This basically means that the kids race around the yard holding a piece of wood on their backs with both hands so that when they trip in fall they can't catch themselves and get a good whack on the back of the head with a piece of wood. It's a pretty popular game.
Bright-orange soccer cones. These are often used, quite appropriately, for marking off "danger zones" but are just as often some kind of crazy appendage on the hand of a child that always ends up pinching the finger of the wearer. They are also quite lovely for shouting through and trapping small animals.
Plastic toy food. I've actually started hiding this stuff for a few days at a time to give myself a break from finding it in every nook and cranny of the house. When we first got the food as a Christmas gift, I carefully picked out all the french-fries and donuts, leaving mostly healthy fruits and veggies. Now I'm stuck pretending to enjoy eating the broccoli cake that the kids made. This stuff is also just plain great for throwing. The kids can throw it as hard as they want and never hurt anybody or break anything but still get a satisfyingly loud noise when it hits anything solid. There are frequent food-fights
between the beds. Whenever a piece of furniture gets moved in the house, there are at least four pieces of plastic food found under it, guaranteed.
One-dollar's worth of toy money. We got this a few days ago and Laney hasn't let it out of her grasp since. She organizes it, eats with it, rides bikes with it, and naps with it. This picture is of Lane right after she walked out of her bedroom from nap with her blankie and money.
I could really go on and on, but I've got to go dust the $80 Firehouse that's sitting unused in the corner. Check back soon for a preschool update!
Two dolls, stripped naked, that have been named "Gus" and "Ozzy" after Aunt Tanager's dogs. Gus and Ozzy have a propensity for rude behavior and sleeping in shoe boxes, with the lids firmly closed.
Three cans containing foam beads, clothes pins, dominoes, and leftover game pieces. These items are usually strewn from one end of the house to the other several times each day and (just today) have functioned as toy dog food, "the solid line" on a street, dinosaur eggs, scrambled worms (ask Grandpa Steve), and truck cargo. If you've got an odd assortment of small items, my kids will find a messy way to use it.
Left-over lumber scraps. While these were very entertaining this summer as "boats" in the wading pool they have since found a new purpose as "rocket packs." This basically means that the kids race around the yard holding a piece of wood on their backs with both hands so that when they trip in fall they can't catch themselves and get a good whack on the back of the head with a piece of wood. It's a pretty popular game.
Bright-orange soccer cones. These are often used, quite appropriately, for marking off "danger zones" but are just as often some kind of crazy appendage on the hand of a child that always ends up pinching the finger of the wearer. They are also quite lovely for shouting through and trapping small animals.
Plastic toy food. I've actually started hiding this stuff for a few days at a time to give myself a break from finding it in every nook and cranny of the house. When we first got the food as a Christmas gift, I carefully picked out all the french-fries and donuts, leaving mostly healthy fruits and veggies. Now I'm stuck pretending to enjoy eating the broccoli cake that the kids made. This stuff is also just plain great for throwing. The kids can throw it as hard as they want and never hurt anybody or break anything but still get a satisfyingly loud noise when it hits anything solid. There are frequent food-fights
between the beds. Whenever a piece of furniture gets moved in the house, there are at least four pieces of plastic food found under it, guaranteed.One-dollar's worth of toy money. We got this a few days ago and Laney hasn't let it out of her grasp since. She organizes it, eats with it, rides bikes with it, and naps with it. This picture is of Lane right after she walked out of her bedroom from nap with her blankie and money.
I could really go on and on, but I've got to go dust the $80 Firehouse that's sitting unused in the corner. Check back soon for a preschool update!
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