Swim Class!

Emma has been taking swim lessons at the community center with her friends Patience and Dante. She's learned so much and she's having a blast!

New Haircut, Tooth Gone!

Phase 1 - Moss Graffiti

Emma cuddling the moss we found. She was so excited to try this!

Kitty was curious about what was going on...actually no. He is only curious if it involves food, food with meat, since we don't eat meat anymore he is rarely curious. He has proven at least one cat cliche wrong!


We painted our initials in the wall with our "moss" paint....we'll see what happens!

Emma painting our pot. It will hopefully become a moss covered fairy scene over the spring and summer...we'll see!
Emma, as it should be noted, liked the taste of buttermilk....she kept asking for more!

You Should Be Dancing!

Emma has a new love for the Bee Gees thanks to the movie "Despicable Me"....WHICH I LOVE! I don't normally like kids movies, but I do LOVE that movie. It could be because of my unabashed love of Steve Carell...I can't really tell for sure.

Sledding!

Emma slid down with Micki



They walked back up.

Emma got stuck so Micki headbutted her up the hill


And then taught her how to climb in the snow....

Festival of Tree 2010

Emma LOVED it.

Lots of beautiful trees. This was my favorite. I love the black and white and purple.

Dancing!!!!

And GIANT BUBBLES. What is Christmas without giant bubbles?!

Our Fireplace

So I was inspired by a tradition from my childhood. My mom had a stack of old bricks and every year us kids would draw a fire and then we would stack the bricks around to make a "fireplace"...it was so fun. Emma had hung up a stocking on a stray nail under our outer kitchen counter wall. And it looked nice. So I got out my Cricut and cut out fire and logs and bricks and Emma and I inked the bricks and logs and glued everything to a black poster board. Instant fireplace! It was really fun. Emma even sits there and pretends to warm her hands.