From E's preschool day:
The children have been busy singing, playing with and reading about frogs! This seems to have been a good choice, every few seconds one of them shouts 'hey look!' and wants to show me something from the frog books. We did a little activity where the kids colored, cut and pasted different phases of the frog's life cycle. Some of the children were interested in the chronology while others were making little frog families. We will continue this exploration and see where it leads next!
From our generous friend Ms. E, some pancit (yum, love the green beans, fish cakes, and Chinese sausage) and Filipino crackers and cookies.
We learned about dinosaurs at the Burke Museum. here is our friend Z breaking open a rock - he found a fossil of an elm leaf and pine needle.
a nice Saturday morning walk at Lincoln Park with our friends.
Ms. E treated us to chocolate cake pops! she makes them such a lovely gift.
He cut out all the animal pictures. loves to cut.
He cut the mushrooms with a white plastic knife, while i did onions with a sharp knife.
making sure Daddy stays safe while cutting down the dead tree. we are venturing out for yardwork these past weekends.
Ms. E treated us to mango cupcakes!
everyday coming home from the bus, he picks up sticks or rocks, or "sunflowers" (dandelions) and built this "house".
6 years at work celebrated with Ms K. :) she's a good friend.
proud of R for his work achievements
Moyster festival as E says. great fun!
E rocks the climbing structure at Westlake playground
dinner with neighbors in our little kitchen
happy st patricks day. champorado (chocolate rice pudding) and mini chocolate cupcakes were a wonderful treat from ms E.
then grasshopper cake.
popcorn popping on the plum tree
an adventure with a double broiler, chocolate covered bananas.
dinner with our cousins. so nice.
Uncle CB made the marble game for his children.
Ms. E shared mini mango pies for pi day, and beautiful cake pops. The amazingly non-flat chocolate chip cookies are from our cousin D.
Ms E, our generous baker friend treated us to mango cake (poorly photographed), nutella-filled star-shaped treat, and white chocolate cake with lingonberries.
fun afternoon with some church friends at a real gymnastic gym.
swinging into the foam filled pit was the highlight. e is not afraid.
planting tomato starters in hopes of a nice crop summer.
our friend J's 5th birthday