Entries from November 2014 ↓

This was a “Friend Day” on a Tuesday.

The kids loved Coral’s visit. She played robot turtles, took them to the museum, helped Ezri improve her building skills, took them to the library, and read plenty of stories.

Ezri gave Coral a sticker for “being a great aunt each day” on a sticker reward chart that Ezri had me make and place next to her own sticker reward chart. Good job earning those stickers, Coral.

The kids have plenty of toys in the house. But on the afternoon pictured below, they found Eric’s box of dice and played together for 40 minutes or so. They stacked dice. They counted dice. They made dice have the same number facing up. They divided dice by color into teams. Ivan was in charge of green team. They debated whether white dice with black dots belonged on the same team as black dice with white dots. They divided dice by number of sides. They fought over the one perfectly round yellow die. Ezri asked whether the round die was a die or a ball and if maybe they should keep it with their marbles instead. If you are gifting a 3 – 6 year this holiday season, go ahead and buy them a bunch of dice. They make for good times.

Here she is Kindergartener extraordinaire!

I woke up to hear Ivan saying, “It’s HALLOWEEN! It’s SNOWING!”

Elsa spread her ice magic with the living snowman in our yard.

Despite the gray day and wicked wind, we got together with Rainbow Dash and The Flash for some afternoon Trick-or-treating.

Elsa and Olaf wore their coats and their mittens while trick-or-treating.