Dallin is such a sweet big brother. A couple of weeks ago we discussed the merits of buying vs making a gift for his sister's birthday. We decided that he would make her a bookmark using some art supplies on hand. He put it off and off until the night before her birthday when he panicked at the realization that he hadn't made her gift yet and it was bedtime. He begged for a special dispensation on bedtime, at least long enough to make her gift. Then he argued with me over making a bookmark because she can't yet read and so she doesn't need one. I was very frustrated at this point, when he came up with the idea on his own to make her a book to go with her bookmark and then he would show her how to use the bookmark. At that point I would have said yes to nearly anything, so off he went to get to work. I told him that because of the late nature of the project he could not use glue, only stickers, crayons, and markers. I helped him fold his piece of paper, find the stickers for her initials, and then went off to take care of dishes. He asked me how to spell a few words and I was very curious about what he was writing. This is the final product.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Big brothers are so sweet.
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Saturday, February 21, 2009
Happy Birthday Anneliese!
This is her blowing out her candles on her muffin (6:45 AM is a bit early for cake).
Here is her cake that we had after dinner. She saw the Ariel candle in the store and had to have it over any other type of decoration we looked at. It made it easy to come up with a theme for the cake, harder to decorate it with my meager decorating skills and uncooperateive pan that wanted to keep half of the cake for itself. Fortunately two year-olds aren't too picky, and most six year-olds are pretty happy when a cake is held together by oodles of frosting and then coated with two types of sugar!
A quick re-cap of Anneliese's last 3 years.
First Birthday
Second birthday
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Friday, January 30, 2009
Dancing in the Rain
This is a completely random photo, but a funny one. Anneliese has recently discovered dressing up, as well as the joys of mixing and matching dress ups!
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Saturday, January 24, 2009
Innauguration Day
Dallin was very excited about the innauguration of Barack Obama. They had talked about the election last November in school and the kids voted in a mock election. Dallin voted for Obama and was very excited that he won. About two weeks ago I was making a shopping list and asked Dallin if he could think of anything that we needed. He told me that we needed to go to Walmart to buy flags. I was stumped. Why did we need flags in January? He told me that we needed them for him to take to school for the innauguration on January 20th. I couldn't believe that he was that politically aware. He's six! I don't remember talking about this kind of stuff in Kindergarten, or even caring about it. We agreed instead to make our own flags, and we did so for family night on the Monday before the Innauguration.
This shows the kids holding up their pictures while we watched President Obama's address on TV. Luckily that was our snow day so we were able to watch it real time.
Dallin drew this portrait of President Obama on the back of his flag picture. He was very proud of it.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Let it Snow!
First Snowman
Snowplay
Snowman II aka Robby
Warm Up
The kids finished off a great day with a nice warm cup of cocoa. The perfect ending to a near perfect day!
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Sunday, January 18, 2009
Funny Faces
This is what Anneliese learned to do over Christmas break. Dallin showed her how to make this face and she giggled and giggled all night long. I love it when kids laugh like this. It is still one of her favorite things to show people.
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Saturday, January 17, 2009
Winter Wonderland
Since Thanksgiving Dallin has been talking about snow. He really wanted a white Christmas and even prayed for snow. He wrote and drew a picture for school all about how his favorite type of weather was snow. He hasn't even seen snow since he was really little and he can't really remember it. We tried going to the snow exhibit at the local Children's Museum, but the snow that they blow there is really tiny bubbles (it does look a lot like snow though). That is what this really bad picture is of. It was really hard to see it when it got closer to the ground.
The fake snow just wasn't doing it for Dallin. He keeps talking and talking about snow. We tried to plan a trip out to Utah, but the costs are just too high. We tried to plan a long weekend to North Carolina, but Anneliese got sick again. It just wasn't happening. A kind Heavenly Father heard the prayers of a young boy, and while he didn't quite send snow, he sent the next best thing...ICE!
This was a lot of fun. There is still a tiny chance of snow this weekend and Dallin is very hopeful, but for now, I think that some of the desire for snow has been satiated.
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