Monday, October 11, 2010

An Art Filled Weekend

Saturday night, we continued with the creativity. I showed Sophia the markers that came with her guitar that Tricia and Atticus had brought. And she squealed with delight. She literally spent an hour at the kitchen table just drawing and sticking stickers on her papers.

 I asked her what she was drawing and she said a shark. Can you see it? Upper left hand corner.

 She said she was drawing an octopus here.
 The stickers caused a little frustration as she had difficulty getting them off the page. They weren't as cooperative as the garage sale stickers.



 On Sunday, we spent the morning painting. As you can see, Sophia had a great time.

 Lately, she's been sampling the paints more and more.



Here she is modeling her smock.
And the weekend's not over yet. We have Monday off. I wonder what we'll do?

Saturday, October 9, 2010

A Visit From Atticus (and Tricia)

Today, we had scheduled an art playdate so these two best buds could hang out and create. After taking the art class at the Hurst Rec Center, we knew our kiddos loved creating and loved hanging out with each other. So when the classes ended, we were a little bummed. So we decided to get together periodically for art playdates. Especially on the hot days where playing outside is unbearable.

Sophia couldn't wait for Atticus to arrive. In fact, she woke up at 6:00 am calling his name because we'd been telling her about the upcoming playdate (I didn't go in to check on her until 6:45...she needs to learn patience). At some point, I wasn't watching and she found my old garage sale price tags in the office (trying to do last minute cleaning....why should I even bother with a cat). I figured, why not, they peel off easily and she's occupied while I clean...kind of clean.



She spotted Atticus outside!

So I had bought them these jack-o-lantern wooden masks to paint. Tricia bought these cool rock and roll guitars to paint. And guess what? They painted for 2 seconds and were done! What!!!!?????
They sure do look cute in their smocks! I had been meaning to make one forever for Sophia so I finally got around to making one and decided Atticus would need one too. But unfortunately, they ended up looking more like dresses. Oops! But it covered their clothes. By the way Tricia, I had intended for y'all to take it with you to keep in case you want to paint at home but with all the excitement (and Sophia's fits), I forgot to tell you. Sorry it looks like a dress. :( Y'all don't actually have to use it.





 They decided they'd rather watch a show.

 Then we had story time!
 Sophia did not want to share her pumpkin at first, but with some pleading/reasoning, she shared. And Atticus was always good about giving it right back, which made it easier. Good sharing guys.

 Then we decided they needed to run some energy off outside. Good idea Tricia!
Unfortunately, we don't have any backyard play equipment yet. Santa are you listening?

 It was super funny to watch! If one kiddo did something, the other one followed suit. Like this. Falling down. Chasing. Tickling.


 Crashing!






 What these pics leave out is all the timeouts Sophia got for pushing and hitting. Aggressive much? Can you believe all this activity only lasted like an hour and fifteen minutes? It was a whirl wind. But a fun one. Although, I was telling Tricia, "this is what 2 would be like". Good birth control for sure!
Later in the day, after nap time, Sophia was very sad to see her Aggies had lost. :(
Just kidding. She just didn't want to put on the jersey. But poor Aggies!


Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Piano Lessons

They finally started their individual piano lessons this past Tuesday. Ms. Kay comes every Tuesday to do indivual lessons with all the kids. Ms. Melanie was nice enough to take pics again for me.




Sophia loves it!!!

Sunday, October 3, 2010

A Visit From Uncle Brice and Aunt Cynthia

Saturday was pretty exciting for Sophia. First of all, she got her flu shot in the morning (not so exciting), but she did get a cookie for being good at the doctor's office.

Then we headed over to Nana and Paw-Paw's house to pick up the Shark Steam Mop that they'd borrowed so we could clean our kitchen floors. Her cousin Jack was there because he'd spent the night so she not only got to see her Nana and Paw-Paw but her cousin Jack (and her Aunt Amy when she came to pick up Jack).

After that, we headed back to our house to help dad clean. Man was our house dirty!! Good thing I had such a great little helper!

After all that cleaning, Sophia went down for a very long nap...3 hours!

When she woke up, she was happily surprised to find Uncle Brice and Aunt Cynthia waiting to play with her. And they didn't come empty handed either. They brought her animal crackers. 

Sophia loved them but was willing to share with all of us.






After all that playing, it was time to cook dinner. Sophia now likes to pull her chair up to watch us prepare food. I let her help when possible. She's always saying, "My turn!'. She refers to this as her chair now, because she no longer uses a booster seat.




Then it was bath time!
And more playing!


What a fun filled day!!! Now if our house could stay clean for longer than a day, I would be sooo happy!