100th day of School

Arabelle is super into dressing appropriately for any given day or activity, and she takes it very seriously.  For example, on Earth Day she dug out an old dress that has flags on it, pairing it with blue and green hair accessories.  When she brought her stuffed dog for show and tell, she had to wear colors to match her dog.  Anyway, a couple weeks back we had a bit of a challenge because it was the Valentine's party as well as the 100th day of school when you're supposed to dress like you're 100 years old.  Kind of a strange combination, but here's what we came up with.

I love how much use we have gotten out of this wig!

Snow Day

Pizza and Hot Chocolate--the Snow day lunch of Champions.  (Charlotte doesn't like food anymore).

Preschool lesson on art--
Making colorwheels with clips for color matching:

Mixing colors with frosting and decorating beautiful artistic cookies:

Painting with Q-tips:

My Very Own Elf

I had Rowan wear this Elf Costume at pretty much every opportunity--kids parties at school, Ward Christmas parties, family christmas party, the grocery store, etc.  He put a lot of smiles on a lot of faces, and really spread joy in an incredible way this Christmas.

Cute Girls

When I think about it, I try to take pictures of the kiddos when I feel they have on particularly cute outfits...

Charlotte did not want her picture taken, which is weird because she always wants her picture taken...

 Mom pointed out that Arabelle has gotten a lot of use out of these particular boots:

Arabelle's 6th Birthday

Arabelle really loves Jeffrey and it is very sweet.  Too bad they both have pizza-sauce faces here:

 I saw this fake American Girl "dog-walker" doll on Clearance at Wal-Mart, and knew it was just right for Arabelle.   In the tradition of her Mom, Arabelle requested Chocolate Delight for her birthday.

New Years 2016

Last year the hats were pretty cup-centric, and this year they're pretty bowl-centric.

Rowan at 10 Months

This is the worst I've done at regular blogging in years, I think.  I've been busy, but no more busy than regular.  Not sure what combination of moods/activities etc. prevents me from uploading my photos, but regardless, today will be a photo/blog dumping day.
Actually it just occurred to me that it may be because I have been sending photos via text, I don't feel the urgency to share them here.

Rowan is the cutest, smiliest little "old-Chinese-man-looking baby" ever!!!