Friends and a drawing

Jeanne refused to nap today, so we played with beads and pipe cleaners, then she wanted to draw with markers.  I set her up and left her be.  After 15 minutes,  I wandered over to see how her drawing was going.  She usually doesn't sit and draw too long, ends up drawing all over her body (thank you washable markers!), but today, for the first time, she was drawing a picture.  Her first, she told me, was of her musical balloons (yesterday I filled 6 balloons with different items to make noise, rice, bells, beads, etc)

Then she drew this:

This is her story:
(on the left) is the mother, she is very tall (she has eyes and a mouth, legs, feet, then all belly).  In her belly is all her food she ate, she likes food.  (the center character) is the daughter (she has eyes, a mouth, hair, arms, and lots of legs and arms), she ate lots of  things with holes and salt, she loves salt and she's so happy!  (the dots around them) are birds in the air and on the ground.

Also today, we watched a couple of friends while the Mom ran to a meeting.  I brought out two bins with colored rice, measuring cups, a funnel, and some safari animals.

Still engaged after 20 minutes      o_O

Lovely girl loved the animals the most, she had me name them all at least 6 times.  If any of them lost their way, she would gather them in a pile and ask me to name them again.  

Lovely girl corralling the animals in a bucket while Loki chills in his car.

They all played, used the sidewalk chalk and the sensory bin for over an hour.  Success!

I am trying to teach myself french braiding.  Someone recommended I cross the hair under, that it would keep the stray hair better.  I am still trying!

June 2012, Jeanne turns 3 years old

Well, that went by quickly.  I was looking at shoes for Jeanne yesterday, only to realize I was looking in the baby shoe section.  Yeah, that won't work anymore.  Here are a few photos from her birthday bash.

FAMILY PARTY:

Water blocks from Uncle L and Aunt C

Another magic wand.  Really, can you have too many?

Freeing the plush birds with gusto!

Yes! Fruit to cut!  Sweet!

Chilling out with my balloon.

The destruction!

FRIEND PARTY:

Best Buddies

How many kids can fit in this chair?  Lets find out.

Yeah for work friends taking time off to come play!

Looks like little man is ready to go FASTER!

We love to walk through the woods:

BUTTERFLIES!

Day 2 of caterpillars 

Day 4

Day 7.  It was so neat to watch them

We released all 5 butterflies on Jeanne's birthday weekend.  It was so awesome.  We both loved watching the caterpillars eat and grow, grow, GROW!

PLANTING:

I just placed the potted plants in the dirt while waiting for them to wake from their nap.  Loki was so excited to see them.  He didn't 'get' planting them, so Jeanne did all of that.

Loki did love watering the plants though.  Who doesn't love to splash water?

A random assortment of photos

Consider this a potluck post, a little but of everything in photos.

Loki eating beets and looking nasty.

Loki in the "body of stars" pj's hanging out with his favorite toy in the house.

A TRIP TO THE MUSEUM w

Loki and his buddy

Jeanne and her friend, future astronauts playing in a model shuttle.

Filling and pouring, filling and pouring.

Check this out, this was probably 3 weeks ago.  

 Not only do we have buds, but they are already opening!

Jeanne plays piano at a friends house.

VIDEO: Piano man

Loki painting, with chocolate pudding.

When left on his own, Loki is likely just dumping every bin over.

PLAYING IN THE PARK WITH FRIENDS:

Jeanne and he buddy met the girl in the girl at the playground, but they three hung out for quite a while.

Notice the short sleeves here folks.  Its warm, warm, warm.

These guys were hanging out on the bench for a while, I asked them to do this pose just once, and they got it perfectly.

 

Jeanne with her buddy and his little sister. 

I think little buddy loves the camera, what do you think?

 

They liked having their picture taken, so they asked for more poses.  Cute kids huh?