'Show Games'

Madeline and Grace love to play 'show games', (internet games based on kids' tv shows), on the computer. This is a rare moment where they aren't fighting over the computer and are actually sitting on the same couch in a civilized manner!

Her favorite animal is the pig...

because they're PINK!

Gracie LOVES pink. She's all ready for bed in her jammies with pink piggies, her pink socks, and her pink flower for her hair. Unfortunately her pink fusser got old so we had to throw it out and make do with the white one. As long as everything still coordinates.

He looks innocent

I admit he's pretty cute, even if he is a trouble-maker.

Sunshine!!!

This picture is from a week ago.
The sun was shining. It was relatively warm, (High 40's?). The girls couldn't resist sitting out in the sun to blow bubbles. We can't wait until summer...we're going stir crazy!

Chef Grace

Grace loves to 'cook' in her Dora kitchen but she must wear her apron and toque to do so.Grace has made her speciality-Strawberries.

The Artiste

Grace loves anything 'artsy'. She loves to paint, draw, dance, 'cook' in her Dora kitchen, play music, dress up in the latest fashion (actually she's more of a trendsetter).

Here she is working on her latest piece, 'Stickers on Window'.

Her medium: Colorforms on glass pane in her living room.

Next stop: MOMA

The Intellectual

Madeline LOVES puzzles. She can usually entertain herself for quite a while doing them. She can do the 100 piece puzzles by herself pretty quickly and is always trying to convince me that she needs to do a 1000 piece puzzle. We usually get all the edges together on the 1000 piece puzzles but it takes a couple of hours (distractions included!) and she gets tired of it, (ok, I get tired of it), or the dog eats a piece and Madeline decides that she needs a new puzzle.

Party! Party! Party!

Lee's birthday party was a wild one, even Buster got into it!



Actually, Becky and Josh have a hobby that involves humiliating dogs for their entertainment. The 'helmet' Buster fashions is a Speulda invention (Becky is the designer? Josh is the mastermind?). They said they got the idea to make a helmet for Buster after they heard that Grace likes to carry him around by the hind legs, possibly dropping him on his head. Jack, (the Speulda's dog) helps by biting a tennis ball in half thereby providing Becky a palette to work with.
You're in for a long ride with this family, Buster!

Brrrrr!

The girls went sledding for the first time today.The day was warm so the snow was starting to get slushy but, we still managed to get enough sledding in for our noses to run and fingers to go numb.
We're hoping for some new snow so we can go again soon!

A time to weep and a time to laugh

Gracie holding the dog.

Gracie not holding the dog.