This week we spent a LOT of time playing with cardboard, courtesy of my brother’s generous gift of THREE large cardboard boxes! Cardboard makes the best toys!!! More coming on that, soon =)
Lily took her weekly nap, which she likes to time for when we are out and don’t have a choice but to hold her. I don’t think I’ve seen her sleep in this particular pose before, though! Her hairdo is very expressive of her opinion of my attempt at a ponytail.
Our baby dolls saw a lot of action after last week’s photo shoot of a friend’s baby! I find it sort of funny that our little tiny baby dolls (one is on the right hidden behind the baby in the lower right corner) are called “baby babies” and the big babies are called “mommy” or “daddy” babies, depending upon their assigned gender.
Emma discovered that she can use her cheerios to make a face, triggering much glee at the breakfast table!
Emma is doing her best to teach Johnny how to write the alphabet in both uppercase and lowercase letters. If she has her way, he’ll be all done with kindergarten before he even starts his last year of preschool!
Most importantly, my favorite little boy turned four years old!!! “How do they grow up so quickly?! He was just a little baby when I started blogging! Johnny had a wonderful family birthday party, with everything exactly the way he wanted, right down to his robot birthday cake. The hit present was a very cool cardboard laptop, made by my brother B – the source of our wonderful cardboard stash!
Lily and I got to visit Johnny’s preschool as part of his birthday celebrations. He was thrilled to have us, and Lily was SUPER excited to get to participate in the class just like all the other kids. Emma was a little sad to miss visiting Johnny’s preschool, but a very cool mother-daughter blog outing to the Fashion Playtes office (complete with some serious swag for Emma) more than made up for it!
Oh, and my kids flooded the bathroom! I was letting them play with bubbles, and was saying goodbye to a friend who had come to visit. Turns out, the sink doesn’t have one of those second drains at the top (never noticed that before). I had plugged the sink (to keep their bubble water in). They turned the tap on full blast, and within minutes there were two inches of water on the floor! Luckily our house’s foundation slopes, so it all pooled at the far end of the bathroom, instead of making its way into the rest of the house. Our bathroom floor is now VERY clean. Emma would probably like me to point out that she was only involved in the clean-up, not the original mess. =)
MaryAnne is a craft loving educator, musician, photographer, and writer who lives in Silicon Valley with her husband Mike and their four children.
Lily is super cute with her pouty nap face, and Emma’s bowl looks like it is designed to be a Totoro bowl, I thought the top eyes were part of the ceramic pattern!
I enjoy reading your week in review posts each week. I’m so glad Emma is enjoying school and Johnny too. I know the time with Lily must be so much fun for the two of you.
That is the sweetest picture of Lily ‘napping’. BTW, Jesse stopped his naps about a month ago.
LOVE Emma’s discovery with the Cheerios! Her smile is awesome in that picture!
Yea! It’s good to be back online and catch up with you. :) The picture of Johnny and Lily in the cardboard box is so cute! Lily napping is too sweet, and I love Emma’s laughing face with her Cheerio creation. :)
Nikki is intent on helping her siblings learn, too. She’s often asks about reading lessons for Michael and violin lessons for Vi, and I remind her that THEY need to ask.
It’s kind of sad that I can never manage to link up to after school even though technically i am one of the co-hosts! Cardboard boxes are always a big hit around here, too!
Happy Birthday to Johnny! It sounds like you had a great week. I love the picture of Lily napping. And the one of the babies looks like something my daughter would set up! Thanks for joining the hop again. Have a great week!
Cardboard boxes are awesome. My Mom kept some in her house for ages and ages, until they finally fell apart for my kids.
Back when I was in college we had a bubble accident involving the dishwasher……..
That pic of Lily sleeping is so sweet! Yikes about the bathroom! I’m glad it didn’t ruin anything though.
Ever since moving cardboard has become our best friend!!!!
Your weeks are always awesome!
Ha! Love that Emma wanted everyone to know that she wasn’t a part of the mess. Noted. :)
My kids have been totally into cardboard these days! We received 7 or 8 boxes in the mail with donations for church from friends of my in-laws. Those boxes saw A LOT of action and I got a lot of peace because they would play nicely in the room for hours! I finally got a little tired of having no room to walk around their bedroom and let them pick out their 3 favorite boxes. :)
Love Emma’s cereal face – Kaia loves spotting what she calls “a face in a weird place!”
And happy birthday, Johnny!
I love Emma’s cereal guy!
Happy birthday to your little one! Cardboard boxes make the best toys ever,don’t they ;) Glad that all that water pooled at the corner of the bathroom, otherwise it wouldn’t be so fun ;)