A Day or Two in the life of a Two-year old.

First--excitement. A friend came over to play today! We climbed up onto the loom bench and climbed down. My friend didn't need any help, but I used the chair to get up and down!


Second-- achievement! Mom said I should make a castle out of cones and books while she wove. She made a layer or two, and then I added my own. Ta-da!

Third-- an owie. My big sister and I were playing a "cowgirl" (swing your partner!) game and I slipped and hit the floor. My "four big teeth" hurt and my lip bled a bit, but it's doing better now.


That's my day! How was yours? :)

The heading on this page is appropriate...Martin and Alia got into a math discussion at the table after breakfast. It lead to an explanation of square roots.

"Diversions"!

Grandma and Grandpa Madsen sent us some Halloween cookie cutters and icing last week. We made sugar cookies and had these yummy desserts on Monday!










Elena liked the idea of the cookies...but in the end she ate the icing and left the cookies!




















Tanner (who was a bat for Halloween last year) wanted my bat cookie. This was not from a cookie cutter. I took the last few bits of cookie dough --not enough to roll out--and shaped it by hand into a bat. He traded his pumpkin shaped cookie for the bat. :)

We had a visitor in our garden this afternoon! He was about 6 1/2" long and very beautiful. The kids didn't want to get too close to him...until they could find a stick and try and poke him. (Mom did ask them to stop!)
















This is the last of our tomatoes for this year. The sprawling vines are now gone from our front yard (and walk!). Anyone for fried green tomatoes?