Tuesday, July 27, 2010

*Gracie's excitement over jumping rope in the trampoline

*watching Madelyn happily playing in the sand table by herself and bringing me a baked pie

*looking at pictures from Gracie's second birthday

*Madelyn asking to play with Daddy's bracelet (a silver bead necklace that Jim happened to wear for the girls)

*the fact that I shouldn't have laughed when Madelyn used a pen to draw all over her bare tummy

*watching Gracie at the library as she sat next to a little boy and listened to him read to her

Sunday, July 11, 2010

*the girls playing with messy oobleck for an hour

*seeing them make a bed and "sleep" next to each other in Gracie's cardboard house

*Madelyn patiently trying to put on a winter hat and mittens

*Madelyn telling Jim at supper that Lily tried to eat a cricket

*the fact that Gracie thinks she made the electricity go off by having a crying fit

*hearing Madelyn call Daddy "Jim" at breakfast to get his attention--I wonder where she learned that?

*playing house and doctor with the girls

*anxiously awaiting the news of our friends' baby's arrival

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

*hiking in Madera Canyon--the girls did great! Even Madelyn with her little legs kept up.

*Gracie showing Madelyn how to write letters and numbers on the magna doodle

*waffles for breakfast

*watching Madelyn stack little alphabet books

*Madelyn actually eating her lunch

*continuing to read Charlotte's Web to Gracie

*realizing that even though we are trying preschool for a couple months, I am 100% convinced that we should homeschool for kindergarten (and hope Jim will support me in that decision)

*finding a Charlotte Mason language lessons book that I am going to start using