Twins at school

 The kids have dinosaur name tags at school now, they were really excited about it.

Harper went right to the check out the rice when we got there this morning while Ava worked on a puzzle.  They really love school.

Silly X 2

Harper and Ava have "acting silly" perfected, and they just love to crack each other up.  One does something goofy, the other either laughs hysterically or tries to be even funnier. 

Number hunt

 Today after Rielee got home from school we played a Number Hunt game with the flash cards to help the twins with some of the numbers they haven't learned to recognize yet.  Rielee played along and the twins really got into it.  They took turns hiding them, and after Rielee left for piano lessons, they asked Papa and I to join in.   So funny, they both hid the numbers while we sat together and covered our eyes.  When we opened them, we had about 10 numbers spread out all on our laps and they got all excited when we found them.  Making it easy for us.

After they found their numbers, they had to go through and name them. 

Horsey ride

 Decorating cookies this afternoon, they couldn't wait until Rielee got home from school. 

 

Tried another recipe today in my quest to recreate the no-longer-sold Campbells Healthy Request Roasted Garlic Potato soup the kids all loved.  Epic fail, the twins hated it...Harper actually ran to the garbage to spit it out...and she was upset because she saw me peeling the potatoes and thought she was getting them mashed.

 Taking turns giving each other horsey rides, or were they puppies?  Can't remember, but they were laughing hysterically either way! 

the letter K

 Easy to tell what letter they are working on this week.

Alan came over with Christmas gifts for the girls today, Dreamhouse Barbies Summer and Teresa.  They're nice ones with articulated bodies and real eyelashes, which impressed the girls, but Alan said he picked them out solely by their pink and green outfits.  Ava said hers had the same name as  "Dale's Mom" (her Aunt Teresa).  They played with them the rest of the afternoon and took them home.

Ava's solo act

Ava and Harper came up this morning to spend the night.  They played dress-up and combed their own hair, which means lots of spray, slicked back with clips and bows, and found some lipstick to wear.  Then they put on a show for which Ava asked for a "side pony" in her hair.  First they both danced to 4 songs each but then Ava changed it up, she wanted to sing by herself.  It was cute, she stood in front of Papa and I and sang 3 songs, very seriously.  Then she got the keyboard and played a couple of "songs", again very seriously.  Rielee showed up after that to play and they were busy all afternoon.  They ended the day with a surprise for us-they cleaned up the playroom and made us a "feast" consisting of fruit, pretzels, cookies, toast with jam and Ginger Ale!   Rielee went home at 6 and the twins had a bath, dinner, read books and were asleep at 8:30. 

Parker's speaker box

It's been so quiet around our house this week without the twins, just awful.  I was glad to see Rielee show up this morning to have breakfast with us and hang out for awhile.  Once she got hooked up to play Wii with Auna though, she was gone.  Luckily, Parker walked in the door at the same time.  He had been working in the shop, building a speaker box and was getting ready to cover it.  He took a break to go to town with us and that was fun.  We went to the new auto parts store, Home Depot, had lunch at Panda, then stopped at Walmart. 

 All finished and it turned out great, he was proud.