Everyday Beauty-365-Week 9-Flat Paul
We have a new friend. His name is Flat Paul and he is going to be living and traveling with us until the end of May. This flat friend is part of the 2nd Grade Social Studies section. Flat Paul will have his picture taken doing various activities and traveling when possible and these pictures will be displayed on the wall in the Grade Two classroom. Sounds like a great project and we are pretty excited to have Flat Paul join us. Flat Paul has just hopped a plane with Ian and is currently hanging out in China. Before he left, we did some regular old stuff with him around here.
We also got a cool new skeleton toy, complete with bones, muscles and various organs. As you can see, it was one of the highlights of the week. Lots of doctor training happening over here.
It has been a busy week ending with some fun photos of my oldest in the pioneer clothes she received from Santa. She loves the Pioneer Days and looks completely adorable in her outfit.
Welcome Flat Paul
Flat Paul's first morning
Skelly
A wee power outage stopped pretty much everything
Skelly again
New shoes
Laura
Everyday Beauty-365-Week 8-Hibernate
We spent a lot of time indoors this week because February has proven to be rather chilly. It's been sunny, which definitely helps with the cabin fever, but biting cold put a hold on sledding and skating.
It was also my birthday this week, and it was a great one with an incredible surprise cake by my friend and cake artist Nicole. The link to her facebook page is at the bottom under the bonus cake picture. She is seriously talented.
We are ending the cold snap and our Sunday here with some skiing. Navigating the hills with two kids prevents me from taking the big camera so we substituted Roly in for a skiing image.
My nearly 8 year old
Sparks prep
Home Reading for school
Chair sharing
You're never too old for ride on toys
The library
Roly
The amazing cake!
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Everyday Beauty-Week 8-Roly Poly
We have a hamster. His name is Roly Poly, or just Roly and he is awfully cute. It was time to add another pet to our household and why not add something teeny and low maintenance. I have been telling my oldest for the past 4 years that pet stores don't allow you to have hamsters or gerbils or guinea pigs or rabbits...until you are 8 years old. We are nearing that age and I figured since I wanted another pet that I would earn some points in the mom department in the process by delivering a wee pet earlier than that age criteria. Each girl had to contribute $5 towards the cost and we went out last Wednesday and bought the works for the little guy (or girl, we have no idea). Roly's cage is well equipped and cozy and Ian and I scored some parent points. Win, win.
Sweetness
Waitress at our restaurant
Roly rolling.
Roly Poly
Bedtime
Driving a shoe?
Bad news from the castle Princess?
Everyday Beauty-Week 7-Hearts
This week was all about hearts. Anyone who knows me, knows that if there is a holiday and an opportunity to make some themed cookies and decorate my house, I am all in. We were fully decorated and full of Valentine prep all week long. They painted plates for me, painted t-shirts for Daddy and assembled Valentines for school as well as decorated heart cookies to give to people as well. It was a busy week and loads of fun!
T-shirts
Cookies
Wayback Wednesday at Dance - 80's?
Twin Day at school
Ice in the house
Valentine Pancakes
Sunday Reading
Everyday Beauty-365-Week 6
This was the week leading up to our town's Annual Winter Carnival and Mother Nature dumped a bunch of snow on us for this occasion. It meant lots of snowblowing and sledding this week so one member of the family was perhaps not thrilled with it all, but two definitely were. We got out skating twice at the local rink too.
I have tried before (and failed before) to get fantastically memorable images of horses that board at a friend's house. Try again and fail again. Seems horses have other ideas when they see me approach with my magic black box. This time they decided to get far too close to investigate and the first image in the line up this week was the best shot I managed to get. Perhaps the third time will be a charm.
I had one home not feeling well this week as well, but she did not get knocked as flat by this tummy bug as some of her school mates and I am grateful.
Here's to another week down, really hoping I can get some more inspiring images, but for now am happy to be managing to keep at it and capture one teeny tiny moment of each day.
Horse - obviously
Snow clearing - again
Tummy ache
Dinner out
PJ Day at school
Joke time - she loves her joke book
New pencil crayons
