We've been moving into game-mode, a favorite activity of winter for our family. I found a game of Cranium's Cadoo in our closet - a purchase from Goodwill a few years back, before we were really ready for it. We are READY for it! Both girls read the prompts on the cards with no problem, and can confidently draw, sculpt, act out or puzzle out the answers during their turns. It's so much fun! And there are secret glasses....
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| it's an elephant - can you tell? |
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| flashlight, skateboard, mummy - all Ani's drawings |
The big news around here is that Ani has her first wiggly tooth! It makes me get all mushy...really, I still think of her being the baby. She is so proud of her tooth...so we set out to sew a pillow with a pocket for that tooth, once it decides to fall out!
And there's been plotting, planning and quite a bit of elving around here...I'm feeling better, and though everyone else is a bit sniffly, they seem to be holding the ick at bay, and we are all in the flow of the Making.
This is my favorite part of these holidays. Dan is off from teaching classes, and though he has plenty of work to do, he takes some time to make with us...I am grateful that he wants to create with us, and it puts me more in the spirit of things to be doing this together. Some years it means he and I are up late into the evenings, after the girls are in bed, giggling and being goofy as we work on our projects. This year it has been a full-family project, which is taking more time but is ultimately so satisfying...
3 comments:
I'm glad you are feeling better, and just in time for the holidays, too!
I have always loved the idea of the tooth fairy, even though I have known the tooth fairy to be extremely unreliable.
Ani has style.
You've gotta love the pink glasses, headband over the scarf and the cape!!!Look out world!!
Finally, hello!
I'm blogging less these days, but wanted to say hi...
Isn't it great that as everyone grows, so do the ways we spend our time together? I cannot imagine a few years back that any meaningful crafting/artowrk could occur with all four of us at the same time! Now, my oldest boy is plotting, and having clandestine projects hidden about the house, and my youngest is in on it too, sending his brother away so that he can create something without him seeing. And when we work together, much gets done and there is peaceful chatter.
I love the toooth fairy pillow, I treasure ours.
xo
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