Babies, babies, babies. I love having them crawl all over me (most of the time). I feel so blessed.
Unlike most moms (I'm assuming here), I do encourage the careful use of scissors at a young age. I think it's a great skill to have and the younger they learn, hopefully the younger they start using them in the right way! Eloise will sit at our craft table for a long time and cut a fringe along the edges of a piece of paper. I love it. Love that she's naked.
Still plugging along on our violin lessons! Making slow and steady progress. We've officially started that stage of forcing our children to practice instruments. It's just as awful as it always sounded.
Charlotte has done better in her lessons that I thought. She actually seems to have a better concentration span right now than Hazel! And on another note, she recently confiscated a pair of scissors and cut out a chunk of her hair along the side of her head. I also found out that she cut off some of the hair on our giant giraffe's neck and head in the baby's room. She's now grounded from scissors for a few days (but I secretly think it's cute and age-appropriate. She just curious!)
I pulled out our Halloween decorations this week! I LOVE Halloween and the onset of fall. In our craft/holiday basket, I had some Halloween face paints and let Hazel have a go at them. We walked into the kitchen looking like this! I think she did an amazing job for a five year old.
I found these lanterns for a dollar at DI and decided to use them above the dining room table. Kind of obnoxious, but I like it.
I thought it would be fun to put some of our Halloween lights (they look like candy corns) on the girls' bunk beds. It makes for a nice little glow in their room at night and makes bedtime stories and scriptures easier to read on Charlotte's bed where we all usually congregate.
This little one has been coloring non-stop lately. She will do this for 30 minutes or more.
From my journal on this day, Sept 26th: I have been loving my activity time with Eloise on Monday and Wednesday mornings while Charlotte is at Joy School. There really is something so special about her age. Today we went for a walk outside and counted ants on the sidewalk and touched bark on a huge tree.
I also found a great activity idea that worked really well for her! She had to drop the pom-poms in the smaller pumpkin into the paper towel holder so that they fell into the larger pumpkin.
She worked hard on this for quite some time. I love seeing her face in deep concentration.
(Journal
entry for Sept 26th continued) Edison has been bouncing in his bouncing
horse and it's so funny to see
those little baby legs bounce him up and down with a huge smile on his
face. I've been feeding him rice cereal here and there which he loves.
He tries to grab the spoon and help me get it into his mouth as quickly
as possible. Ellie is easy and wonderful. She is independent and
entertains herself very easily throughout the day. I love how she comes
over and backs into my lap when we sit down to read books. And she loes
playing chase and peek-a-boo. Reminds me of how I loved doing that with
Bradley when he was little. She's so fun to play with (she's sitting
next to me on the couch as I write this and she just tooted).
September 27th: If you could understand how much I struggle with doing hair, you would know how proud I am of this hairstyle for Hazel.
Hazel decided she wanted to make her dad something special, so she scrambled this egg (mostly) on her own. She was very proud.
Charlotte and I were studying the letter W and made this witch hat!
And a tiny one for decoration too.
I found a book at the library that had Halloween crafts and Hazel tried this one on her own: a spooky house! It's not even October yet, but we are very ready around here.
