Pip's Art Work...

I love the little Aliens this child makes! You've got to see all these amazing little people...

Much like her sisters, but completely unique! She LOVES to create!!! She has gotten so good at chopping things up with scissors! Ask the vacuum it sure gets a work out after she's been working with scissors.

This was one of her first people back in September (she was 2.75 years old) You can see on the top right side P....i....p she writes her name!

This she said is Daddy and she tried to make a "D" next to it. I think it looks like the ferocious beast from Maggie and the ferocious beast.

This one below she tried to write her name, but messed it up and crumpled the paper up.

Then she drew her face ANGRY (above) she was mad it didn't work out!

 And the one above is our entire family... It is the first time she attempted so many people in a picture before! She made Daddy biggest, and then I am the one on the top left with the arms...She is the one next to Daddy and then Riley is next to me Amity is in the middle nad at the bottom by Daddy's feet is a "baby brudder". We have no idea where she got the concept of a "baby brudder" but it sure gave us a good laugh!

She made this picture for me for my Birthday and hung it up on the wall just for me! It is a picture of me and Her.

We love our little artist and her little pictures and the stories she shares about her pictrures. They are the best.

Autumn Update: Shall We Dance?

Pip asks daily when HER dance class starts. She's really got some moves! And tries so hard to copy her sisters. It is probably the most adorable thing ever.

Friendly and Roo started dance classes last September! A local church offers dance through Athletes for Christ and the girls have been enjoying the program so much! They have both been learning so much and enjoying their individual classes every week.

Roo all dressed for dance!

Practice Practice Practice! These people dance a LOT!

They are REALLY enjoying their classes...

They are both taking Tap and Ballet. Friendly in the 4-5's class and Roo in the 6-7's

It has been a wonderful experience and I hope we can continue next year!

Autumn 2014 Recap: SCHOOL

School school school! We started some fun new things this school year!

We launched into the school year with ALL THINGS ANIMALS....We also added an extra 2 year old to our crew during the weekdays. M has been a lovely addition to our days and we have had a lot of fun exploring things together.

We started off pretty strong, we stuck to a letter and a number every week...But some where around mid October that got lost in the shuffle...


But boy was the shuffle fun! Here are some pictures from our school year so far...

Our Autumn Leaf Craft.

This child LOVES school... She is beginning to sound out words (yes, age 2)

Our trip to the science Center.

Friendly playing with balance.

From our habitat studies: Our habitat is a house! We had fun/

Pip's first ever picture of a person!!! This is from Late August (She was newly 2 and a half!) I thought for certain her sisters had drawn it until she showed me how she did it! Look at all those body parts! And the arms don't come out of the head, but the legs,so different from other new drawings I have seen before.

Alphabet fun!

Our Craft after our study on nocturnal animals...

Scented SEVEN! (mint leaves)

Our field trip to the firestation....It was kind of a bright afternoon!!!

closing out the school year...

Our first year of home schooling is coming to a close, it's been a fun year!

a random craft Friendly created. Rainbows.

she is so good at building these towers. Her math and reading skills amaze me.

 

A drawing by Roo.

coloring too!
painting a favorite activity

This is Monticello- Thomas Jefferson's house

 The girls made these crowns-decorated themselves!

she was proud of her crown.

school on the computer....

Pip's work, always finding the funniest little creations and stacks of things around the house.

Friendly working on her "design skills"... she likes to "design" dresses in her princess drawings.

 counting the circles she drew on the card she made. She can count to 14...She counts everything- especially steps! She tells me a few times a day now, "dere 13 steps in living room" there are!

 Outside school!! Mud play whole mommy reads aloud...

 outside school...

 a team project...

 They did this together, all their own initiative!

 This year we learned seasons, months, days. The girls both know and can recite the days of the week, months of the year, and the seasons. We made this poster together.

 This baby is a little genius in the preschool apps... She knows many letters and sounds, shapes, colors, and a few number symbols. She whips through the levels.

 School in the attic: messy!

 a kite she designed and made herself...

 Pip has recently taken an interest in trying to figure out scissors.

 A picture by Friendly...

Painting... Both girls really increased their skills in this over the course of the school year.

An "abstract" by Roo

 Roo is beginning to truly get the code!!! She's started writing words she thinks if and sounds out alone.

some of the longer words are from a few months ago when she was playing doc McStuffins, but "Bat" and her attempt at pip's name, all her own!

 

 

celebrations...evening dance recitals...

 

we were given fake flowers and instructed to throw them at the dancers when the song ended. 

 

Many pictures to come soon and a bit of an update on everyone!!