Baking, Printing, Painting Nails....

Ella and Juju were great helpers in the kitchen this week. We made cinnamon buns for a bake sale to raise funds for Guatemala. 

I love this expression that Juju is making in the picture above... it is one of my favorite faces that she makes. 

Ella has been really into printing lately. She often prints during her quiet time. 

When you are the father of 3 girls, you need to learn some different skills. Here's Spencer painting the girls' nails.

"Horsey" Rides

Ella and Juju love getting "horsey" rides and often ask for a double.

Karis loves to play with her picnic basket from Uncle Matt and Auntie Jaynie. You may notice in this picture, she is starting to get some hair!

Family visits...

Yesterday we visited with Great Grandpa, Grandma She-She, Auntie Morgan, and Auntie Jan. We had yummy treats and the girls even got some fun gifts.

Here are the girls wearing their new dresses, thank-you Grandma She-She!

Ella making "cookies" from her cookie set she received from Auntie Jan.. thank-you!

Enjoying our days...

The girls love to play with Momma's heart punch. They have been collecting hearts in a jar. They give the hearts to Dadda to take to work. Dadda has a jar on his desk at work that is slowly filling up with hearts from his little girls.

The girls helped me mop the floor the other day. They thought this was such an exciting thing to do, which made it fun for me as well :)

Some days these two are the best of friends, other days they are the worst of friends!

Madeline

Our girls love the book "Madeline". Here's Ella reading to Juju before they do their quiet time.

The book is set in an old house in Paris. There are 12 little girls who share a room. The other day Juju asked, "why do we only have 3 girls in our room?"

Tea Party

Now that we have 3 little girls, I don't have one-on-one time with them unless I'm intentional about it. So, the other day during quiet time, I invited Ella up for a tea date. Just Ella and Momma. We drank tea, read "Ms Spider's Tea Party" and had some great conversations. It was awesome.

Later that evening Ella asked me: "Momma, are we best friends now?"

New Table

A friend gave us a table for Ella and Juju to use downstairs. They love to colour down there. A great thing about their table is that it is a mini version of our kitchen table (it even has a red chair).

I now let Ella colour during her quiet time. She knows only to colour on the table, and normally does quite well with this. The only thing she has trouble with is putting red crayon on her lips. After applying her crayon, she rushes upstairs and says "look at my lip gloss". So, she's still learning to colour only on the paper (but at least she doesn't colour on the walls or the table).

The other day, Ella was in a bit of a mood before she went for quiet time. She was saying that she was going to do some things that she knew she isn't aloud to do. ("I'm going to go down there and dump all my crayons on the floor"). 

She didn't dump her crayons on the floor, but she found another way to try to "get my goat". We have been reading through the story of the Good Samaritan and learning that we should always help others who are in need.  So she came upstairs and this was the conversation that followed:

E-  I decided to not dump my crayons on the floor

M- That was a great choice, Ella.

E- But, there was a hurt man on the side of the road down there and I just passed him by, I didn't stop to help him.