Loose teeth, egg hunt,....

Hey Maja - in honor of your esteemed patronage to my blog - here'a a new post.
Haven't sat down at the home computer for many many weeks now and my poor Canon has also been sitting collecting dust for the past 2 months..... It decided to make its presence felt through a dream.... I have a lot of (silly) dreams - and unfortunately remember most of them. Night before last I had this dream where I was standing on the tarmac of an airport (with a couple of other people - none of whom seemed familiar) - and close around us were these beautiful, gleaming airplanes - all looking so beautiful - that I desperately wanted to take a photo since we needed to get on one of those planes in the next few minutes and leave. (In my dream) since I had not used my camera in ages, it was in this cardboard-ish eggcarton type protective casing - which I quickly pulled open to get the camera out - but when I did the camera was a maze of buttons and refused to work to take any photos..... On waking up and thinking about the dream I realized 1. I have been doing too much flying (NJ, LA, Georgia, Vegas, Iowa, Minneapolis - in the last 6 weeks).... and 2. I must get out the camera and take some photos....

What's new - Girly girl C2 has got not one but 2 loose teeth - her first loose ones.... her lower jaw also seems to have grown bigger - since before her baby teeth were all close together and now there are many gaps between them...

Today was the Easter Egg hunt in our cul-de-sac - organized by one of our extremely organized neighbors.... I only managed to get some quick snaps of C2 while she ran collecting as many eggs as she could.

B'day pics

For my 2 loyal readers :-) Here are some pics from my doll's 6th birthday party....


The tiles the kids drew / colored.

Wearing the aprons I made (luckily started on these before my job began)....

T-shirt painting
Rainbow cake..... with a glimpse of the rainbows each of the kids had drawn and colored on the back wall ....

Snow !

We finally got some snow. The kids were so excited to shovel and play in the snow - we managed 30 mins in the morning before we had to leave for daycare.



View of one side of our backyard

And that same tree which had golden leaves a few weeks back....

The table on our deck shows the 4 inches of snow that fell

And our master shoveler shows us the technique (those little white flecks floating around him are snowflakes - it was still snowing in the morning) -

lift....

and dump.....

Just state it

Last evening K1 makes up this game for me to play with him - we each take turns naming a state each, without repeating any that have been said earlier. We didn't get too far, so I thought why not write down the names of as many states as we can remember. We both started thinking and we managed to write down 33 states. Kept thinking hard but could not remember any more ..... then the hubby came home and I got him to start thinking.... we got to 48 and were stuck till this morning when he called from work ... last 2 on our list - West Virginia and Connecticut.

Recent artwork

Some recent artwork by the kiddos. All are by C2 except for the Titanic. C2 will miss out on her afternoon art & craft time when she starts day-care next week :-(.

Birthday planning

C2 is all excited about her birthday on the 26th next month. She's started planning her party - wants an 'Art' theme, has made a list with the 22 kids she wants to invite, and made this poster which she put up in our computer/craft room ... she wants hot dogs and cupcakes at her party, instead of the usual pizza and cake.....

I've now got to think of some games and activities centered around art to keep all these kids occupied.... planning to sew some art smocks (aprons ?) for all of them.... let's see how that goes.... Party planning always gets me excited :-) And speaking of parties - I submitted the Scooby Doo party plan we did for K1 to Birthday Party Ideas and got an email last week that it was a runner up for September - which makes us richer by $15 ! :-)

When the cat is away.....

....the mice get a lot of work done....

I had gone out with a friend last evening to watch the Hindi movie 'Om Shanti Om'... really enjoyed the movie, laughed and laughed, and coming back home, when we were driving into our cul-de-sac I saw the lights of a X'mas tree peeping from our front window. It was such a nice surprise - K1 had put up the tree by himself, as well as a wreath on our front door, and W had helped him and C2 put up the lights on the tree. The boys had been outside cleaning gutters when I left, and had even finished dinner by the time I came.... I think I need to get out of the house more often !

Here's how the tree looked last night - they were waiting for me to help them out with the decorations.... maybe we will get that done tonight....