Zipping

Ava zipped up her jacket yesterday and did it again today.  Harper decided she better try it also, and with a tiny bit of help, got hers zipped up, too.  They were proud.   They had a good day at school, taking Hokey Pokey Elmo in together for show and tell.   After school I gave them some sparkly shoes I found on clearance at Target so they played dress-up and did some dancing.  Papa bought them some smaller sheets of construction paper so they used those to make cards for Grandma Barb and Papa Mike.

Show time

"It's time for a show!"  We got two today, one when Alan was here and another when Emmy and Dan stopped by.  We've had to limit their dancing to three 1 minute turns each since they now dance to music On Demand and some of those songs are too long for them to make it through.   

Monopoly and basketball

 Harper saw the Disney Monopoly game in the closet this morning and asked if we could play, I said no, she was too little and couldn't read yet, but Rielee said she would play with them.  They stuck with it for quite awhile.  Ava was winning when they stopped to eat breakfast, then they started playing dress-up so we put it away. 

Charb and Luke came up to get the girls in the afternoon.  Parker was glad to see Luke and they spent the whole time playing basketball.  The girls got dressed up again to put on a show for Daddy.

Seahawks

The Dolans and Gabe came over to watch the game with us today.  The kids stayed busy in Papa's room watching a movie and playing on the computers and Kindle. When we would all scream after a good play, Harper would come out frowning with her arms crossed and tell us that we were being too loud and the noise was hurting her ears!

More painting

The girls had a field trip today to the library.  Friday is also show and tell day but we didn't have the girls take anything since before when they've had Friday field trips, show and tell didn't happen.  When we picked them up, of course, they were having show and tell, I thought, oh no, they didn't have anything to share,  but then I could hear Ava telling the class how her Daddy always makes them macaroni and cheese and how she loves macaroni and cheese!  When we got home they said because of the field trip they didn't get to make a craft at school and asked if they could paint, then begged to paint.  So they painted birdhouses and then a couple of pictures and were happy. 

Painting

The girls asked to paint today so we got the easel out and let them choose what paint colors they wanted.  Harper asked for silver, black and white.  First she made circles but her next painting was letters and numbers and then she painted a snowman.

 Ava said she was painting a "machine that gives milk", her next painting looked very similar and she said it was a machine that gave orange juice.

We took them to Chuck E. Cheese for lunch.  In the past they were too busy to eat anything, so this time they had to take a bite of pizza before they could get a token, Harper actually ate 2 slices.  They played a long game of air hockey.  Ava loved it but Harper got bored and walked away. There was a little boy watching so we asked him if he wanted to play with Ava and he did.  Ava was shy at first but then got into the game and had fun with him.

Candlelight breakfast, Rielee's basketball

 Our power went out just as the girls were starting breakfast this morning.  They were scared but we got them each a flashlight and lit a candle so they could finish their oatmeal and toast.  Papa got the generator going pretty quickly so we didn't have to sit it the dark very long.

 

Rielee had her first basketball game today, she made several baskets and did well bringing the ball down the court.  She's like a mini-Macee.

Ava had been sitting on the floor watching the game but she climbed up in Macee's lap for a bit.  Rielee was winded when she finally got to sit out at the end of the game since they only had one sub.