Puppeteer and Boats

 At the Children's Museum, Hannah had a great time being a puppeteer and drawing butterflies on her face and lips on her arms...so sweet.

Driving the boat with his cars tattoo...look out ocean!

E's "Thank you"

"All About Me" Pre-school Project

This month at pre-school it is "all about me."  Last week, we 

filled out a questionnaire about what we looked like (hair color, eye color, name, etc)

along with favorite foods, activities, and who is in our immediate family.

This week our homework for Wednesday was to make our house.

A large piece of construction paper was sent home and we could use whatever we wanted

to make our house.  With some help from a great teacher we know, we came up with 

using some pasta, beans, and mustard seeds to help make our house.

We also used 1/4c white vinegar with 3-4 drops of food coloring to color the pasta and rice.

Such a fun project.  As you can see, Hannah was very intent on getting this project done right.

Still concentrating...

One side of the finished product.  Can you even handle how cute the butterflies turned out?

The house - windows, door and all.  Will be totally interesting to lift this up.

The sun may look more like the sun Hannah made and a little less rice and mustard seed door density =)

Just a little bit proud...

And of course, E had to get in on the action.

Admiring his truck...

Hamming it up...yes, he may have eaten green rice...only time will tell =)

The finished product - Eli's Big Rig Truck

Buzzin' Cousins

We were so lucky this past week to have our cousins from California come and play!

Caitlin starts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Monday so she and Sydnee came to play a week beforehand.  Drivin' the fire truck at the Children's Museum.

Monkeying around at the zoo.

 Our big girl on the carousel at the Children's Museum.

A not-so-sure little boy on the carousel...

Playing at the slides in Downtown Omaha...

Slidin' with E...

Super finish!

Last, but not least...

Cupcakes!

Helping with the frosting...

Trying them out to see if they are worthy of sharing...

Yummy!

Can I tell you how much I love cupcakes???

Trouble Much?

This does not appear to be an accident...

Seriously cute... seriously in trouble.

Park Picts with Dad

Priceless smiles...

Love my daddy!

Love my daddy!

Water II

Splashing!

The Bubba

A classic pose...

The "(Cuddle) Bug"

Park after Church

Grandma let us play on the playground after church - again despite the over 100 degree heat index.

Our stylin' Hannah.

 Our Dare Devil

 Priceless...

 2 little monkeys swinging all around and being crazy drivers

A portrait of things to come - ever since his Aunt Shelli let him "help" in the drivers' seat - the Cars lovin' man loves to pretend to drive the car.  Hannah is actually willing to be a passenger in this case =)
Happy Birthday Aunt Shelli!

Art Musuem

Family pict at the Josyln Art Museum.  

How is it that taking pictures is getting harder as these 2 opinionated little ones get older?

Discovery Gallery outside.  Every Saturday morning kids are able to get in free from 10-noon.  We walked around to see art from some amazing books and did a few arts and crafts.  We ended up outside at the end despite the 110 degree heat index.  Ugh.

Silling monkey hanging off of crayons - yes the art...

Hot kids=the best picture we could get =)

Checking out the movable entrance sign - our investigator.

I love this picture - it is just exactly how the kids are and how thrilled my mom is to be a grandma.

Water

We have a fountain at the park near our house.  

The kids just love it and with the heat as it has been - 

quite a nice place to spend afternoons and evenings...

The Running Man

Striking a Pose?

Running around after the other kids

And running the other way =)