Art

Lauren's drawing

The kids drew their first real pictures for art today. Of course I am viewing them with a mother's eye and in my opinion they are fab! We have been discussing the 5 basic elements/families in art (dot, circle, line, angled line, curved line) for the past few weeks and today we finally got to apply them. It actually worked! I have to say I was a little shocked. They new what I was talking about and were able to recreate my instructions with markers in their sketchbooks. Bruce actually thought they had traced their pictures and I was so excited to tell him - nope, they did it themselves! I am very impressed with this art program so far. Too easy!

Braden's Drawing

When Daddy is Away

This past weekend, Bruce went to Possum Kingdom Lake for his company's annual fishing trip. He really does look forward to it all year. Unfortunately there were not many fish this year since there had been an algae problem and they to do a "kill" for the lake. This either killed all the fish or at least made them sick, so I don't think he made a big haul. He just does catch and release fishing anyway, so it is not like he would have been eating them anyway. But, all in all, I think he still had a good time.

Meanwhile, we spent the days doing the usual things like wearing our safety goggles to the table to eat frozen pizza. The boys also decided to go down their slides by themselves for the first time. Braden would only slide on his stomach, but it was still a big step for him. He has spent several months climbing up and down the playhouse ladder with no intentions of sliding.

obviously offended by the annoying paparazzi...