Sleeping Beauties IV

See the blog for Sleeping Beauties I, II, and III.

A Horse in the Kitchen

I signed Anders up for his first painting class and quite honestly I had no idea how it would go. I just waited to see what developed for him. He painted an amazing fire breathing dragon, a pink owl, and this...a horse in the kitchen.

Lovely Photo

Anders teacher took this photo of Anders at pre-school. They had just been playing in a pile of leaves.

My boys and their Grandpa

My mom and dad are visiting. This means the boys get to enjoy some much loved time with their grandparents. The highlight of this evening was Grandpa playing a hide and seek game with the boys. This of course got a little rowdy when my dad turned the game into a blend of hide and seek-tickle-and monster. You should have heard them laughing! Dad also played a little (and I do mean little, he and Jakob were only about 8 inches apart) game of catch with Kuba, and Grandma and Anders played GO FISH. I of course, watched all this from my regular Friday night fog of exhaustion....Friday evenings are not the high point of my long work week!
Luckily, I was able to film/photoraph/and truly appreciate!

Anders, Photographer

Anders has been using the camera lately. This is a collection of photo's he took the other day when he was out on a hike.

Rotten Porch - GONE!

Completely torn off...today....all of it.
Hallelujah!!
And soon a newly designed front porch, with a larger and insulated entry, and also a pantry off the kitchen, will grace our lives!

Look Whooo's TWO!

We had Kuba's second birthday party this weekend, and it was an owl party indeed! We were lucky enough to have a visit from a very real, very beautiful barred owl. Anna questioned me a bit on my idea to have an owl, and I said...some people get bouncy castles, some hire clowns....we get to have a live owl and donate the money to a local raptor organization that rescues birds of prey. The organization is called Outreach for Earth Stewardship and it's very small, very local and very cool. It was smooth sailing after that. If you want to check them out their website is http://www.ofes.org/

We even had a delicious owl cake made by the best cake baker around, Aunt Sandy.
It was so much fun pulling it all together....the kids decorated owl masks, and stamped the front of a little owl book I put together for them with poems and owl songs. Here are a few of the items from the book....

Owl in the Tree
(Sung To: Skip to my Lou)

Owl in the tree says, who, who, who
Owl in the tree says, who, who, who
Owl in the tree says, who, who, who
Who, who, are you?

Owl Song
(Sung To: I'm a little Teapot)

I'm a great big owl, as you can see
I live high up in a tree.
All the other birds wake me up when they play,
Because I like to sleep in the day

Mr. Owl
Late at night when you're in bed,
Mr. Owl perks up his head.
He looks left and he looks right,
In the dark all through the night.
Hear him hoot when you're in bed,
When Mr. Owl perks up his head.

The Owl
I saw an owl.
He sat in a tree.
He opened one eye.
He winked at me.