Music in the house

K and Miah have been playing their instruments individually, but this was the first time they decided to put their sounds together. I've really liked what I've learned about the Suzuki method of learning the violin, so I think we will try to do the same with teaching K the piano.

Breezy Spring Portraits Layout

I've been trying to catch up on some old pictures to get them into the kids' scrapbooks. Isn't Meister a cutey!

Credits:
Papers: Leah Riordan
Silver embellishments and chipboard action: Atomic Cupcake
Fonts: Brubeck AH and A Yummy Apology

Meister's Birthday Party

Credits:
Keys & Eyelets: Melony Violette
Background Paper: Shabby Princess
Gel Action for "5": Atomic Cupcake
Font: Architect

Roleplaying

Children learn from role-playing and role-play what they learn. This afternoon my kiddos are pretending that they are missionaries chased from their home by mean guys burning their house down (Missionary Stories with the Millers). They have run with their horse into the wolf-infested wilderness (Little House on Rocky Ridge). Their names are Katie, Matt, Patrick, and the smallest one is Tom (The Littles). :-)

On Sunday afternoon we shared a Lightning McQueen cake with 13 guests. If you count the 7 that live here, that's 20 all jammed in one little house to celebrate the life of one little guy. If you'd like to see more pictures, please check in my photoblog. I've decided to switch to uploading my Project 365 pictures there so as not to clutter up this blog.

Rust-eze Logo


Today I'm decorating Meister's birthday cake for his party tomorrow afternoon. In preparation, I needed a picture of the Rust-eze logo from Pixar's Lightning McQueen. I took a picture of a small toy we have in the house and pulled it into Photoshop to delete the extras and fix up all the scratches.

Frantic Friday

This is how we spend much of Friday on our way to and from vision therapy appointments and other errands: