Sticker Love

Lil'S loves stickers! 

So does N!

This is from a month ago, when Lil'S decided to reward himself with his potty training Cars stickers. 

Happy Halloween!

This mama is determined to not get behind with holiday and birthday posts this year, and the fact that my computer is now my camera certainly helps with that goal. (Did I ever post my birthday marathon entry? Oh, dear!)

Seven-year-old H asked to "be a cheerleader for the whole United States!" As someone else put it after I shared that with them, our nation "could use some cheerleaders right now."

 Three-year-old Fireman Sam was obviously up past his bedtime, but at least he cheered up as candy was passed out!  He and sister enjoyed a candy fest while I put the baby to bed afterward, even though only 2 of our 9 apartment neighbors were home and giving out candy. Those two were generous, so they nearly made up for the others.

Twenty-month-old N didn't mind his father simply putting an E.T. shirt on him. He also figured out how to be offered extra candy at our first stop!

H's Art Portfolio

This and the next two pictures are from a card H made for her cousin who was getting baptized.

She'll often scribble on the brown bags we occasionally send her lunch in.

She made me a ring out of paper and tape!

I loved it!

summer time color exploration

Noise maker

Although the wad of paper did eventually stick to the tape she used inside. ;)

This makes me laugh, so I just had to include it.  

It's from an All About Me poster her teacher had her and her classmates do.  

Look at all those kids! 

She did this one day during the summer with ink, paper, and scotch tape.

Several months later, H made this (scotch tape, foam sheets, and pencil) while S and I talked to the ADHD Clinic people.  There is a disagreement in the ADHD world as to whether ADHDers can focus intently on something without that focus being in a scattered way.  This and the earlier figure obviously required sustained attention, although as I wasn't there, I don't know if she took breaks from it and was redirected to it by her chaperone or not.  Her companion did say that it was completely H's idea and that she didn't help H with a bit of it.

By the end of kindergarten, her teachers usually had her coloring a background and a foreground as well, so I thought picture I stumbled across I thought was unfinished, but H now informs me she was done with it.  Note the movement lines for the butterfly's wings.  That--and the insect's curly antennea--is what drew my attention to this crayon drawing.

This and below are her birthday card to me.  

She asked me what my favorite colors were--pink and blue--before she got started.  I loved it!

This is a self-portrait made at school.  All the kids pictures looked much like this, so they must have received some kind of guidance about drawing it.  I love the hearts on each side at the bottom and the wisp of hair on her forehead.

This was a teacher lead art project as part of their cultures lesson during the holidays.  I think it's a cute idea.

She's made up her own cursive, and was thus gifted a handwriting book from her OT so she could learn correct technique, and since then has added this decorative script to her repertoire.

Look-a-likes!

H

N

Love it!!!

They're here!!!

PICTURES, PICTURES, PICTURES!!!

Sending our thanks to Sabrina Short of Sweet Sassafras!
Sorry, family, no printing these.  Just let us know which copies you want
and we can arrange ordering them!

Considering how hectic everything was and that I botched everyone who had hair long enough to botch and that I didn't hire a friend to come help juggle kids and fix hair between shots (my ideal because I'm so photo obsessed), they came out pretty cute.  This is a whole slew of our favorites--some are super cute and great quality shots, some are just fun, and some are poses that I liked for future reference.

These next few were taken right near the end.

Happy 10 Years this May, My Love!!!

                       

 

Aww. . .

CUTE!!!

My Little Man!!!

So grown up!

Not the best framing, but what's a photo shoot with a little girl without a couple flower poses?

:)

We were really trying to warm him up!

  

And I knew eventually this would do the trick!

Yay!!!

Hard to choose a favorite with these next ones.

He, he, he!  Buddies!

I wish I'd been holding his hands with my index fingers for this one.
I was probably in the middle of trying to switch when she took the shot, although I think I'd tried to tickle him to get a smile at some point too.  He was missing his nap AND stranger shy, so he was not so thrilled about this whole thing.

Squished Lil'S!

We really tried to get all three kids together, and I wish we'd tried more poses and thought to take H's glasses off to avoid the glare.  It's tough to keep a two-year-old interested and a tired baby content, though, so that didn't really happen, sad to say.

Cute, but they really need Daddy in there someplace too.  

(I've seen too many single mom and kids pictures!)

These just make me laugh.

N wasn't so sure about this either.

Shy N!

Yay for smiles!

HA-hahaha!

So sweet!  Lil'S totally adores his baby brother.  

Someday I hope the same thing will exist in the reverse!

My silly crew!