Project 365 Weeks 20 and 21

05/14/2017

After a full weekend of activity and a wonderful Mother's Day, these three settled in to watch an episode together.  I have no clue what was going on in the episode, but I find their reactions hilarious.

05/15/2017

Little Ish is prepping for a ride down the banister--his favorite way to come down the stairs.

05/16/2017

We have a screened-in porch off of our kitchen.  Zélie has recently discovered the joys of playing out there.  It also seems to fulfill her desires to play outside when it is not a good time to go outside.

05/17/2017

I just wanted to take a moment to focus on Lily and her beautiful, generally unbrushed, and oh so surprising red hair.  We have had a few good conversations about recessive genes lately.

05/18/2017

I spent the day babysitting four of my nieces and nephews.  This may sound like insanity, but because they are so close with my kids I pretty much end up spending the day taking care of Zélie while the big kids play nicely together.  When they first arrived Persephone decided to hang back with me an Zélie instead of joining in the big kid fun. These two spent about 20 minutes looking at this book together.  Persephone took the time to point out different objects in each picture. 

05/19/2017
 

Little Ish has entered the era of losing teeth.  He ended up having to have his first two teeth pulled as he had what are known as shark teeth where the adult teeth grow in behind the baby teeth in such a way that the baby teeth don't get loose and fall out. He was very excited to lose teeth even if it wasn't in the usual manner and now he has a very sweet lisp.

05/20/2017

We spent our morning at a family fair and yard sale at our friends' school.  While we were there, the three big kids made fish kites.  As soon as we got home, they spent a bunch of time running around the yard and the sidewalks infront of our house flying their kites. 

05/21/2017

Zélie loves collecting things off of the ground; she especially loves collecting the seed pods that our sycamore tree drops.  The challenge of the spring has been to keep her from eating them.

05/22/2017

Little Ish has been spending a lot of time this week learning to draw pokémon from a book he received for Christmas.  One of the great things about homeschooling has been the ability for him to pursue his interests and being able to show up to school dressed as a dragon in the middle of May.

05/23/2017

I am sure there will come a day when my children will ask why I took so many photos of their eyelashes. 

05/24/2017

Zélie kept getting into their game so they hid on the stairs where she couldn't get to them.

05/25/2017

Confession time.  I didn't feel like chasing anyone to get a good photo and Zélie was strapped into her highchair sitting in decent if not terribly beautiful light.

05/26/2017

With a little encouragement, Atticus put on his sandals all by himself for the first time.

05/27/2017

Ish showed Zélie how to put a cylinder block in to the empty paper towel roll.  She caught on pretty quickly and then proceeded to repeat the process many times over.

Project 365 Weeks 18 and 19

I realized, after the last post where I covered two weeks, that posting my project in 2 week installments might make my Sunday evenings a little more relaxing. I am going to try posting every other Sunday for the next few updates and see if I like it better that way.

04/30/2017

Zélie has a new found love and admiration for her cousin Percival.  She got very excited when he walked over to talk to her.

05/01/2017

Zélie has recently discovered how much fun it is to hide behind the couch and play peekaboo.

05/02/2017

One year molars are no fun, but chomping on her own fingers seems to help.

05/03/2017

Rest time has been a real hassle most days for the past year.  Atticus doesn't consistently nap and it has taken a long time and a lot of encouragement for him to finally do rest time well.  Late afternoon pictures of this guy used to be full of grumpy or crying faces; these days he is almost always pleasant because he is well rested.

05/04/2017

Atticus discovered the last remaining balloon from Easter and was quite pleased with himself.

05/05/2017

Molars were the theme of the week.  Poor teething baby!

05/06/2017

I spent my afternoon taking photos for a client and completely forgot about my project 365 until bedtime.  Sleepy children don't like to look at the camera or humor me so this is the best I could get.

05/07/2017

We spend an awful lot of time chasing this girl down and pulling small objects out of her mouth.  Having older siblings is sometimes a choking hazard.

05/08/2017

This photo of Zélie just makes me laugh. 

05/09/2017

Zélie has figured out how to climb the dining room chairs.  I have started putting one by the window so she can climb and look out.

05/10/2017

I was having a problem with my eye on Wednesday. Having an unrelenting eye twitch led me to decide to skip a day. 

05/11/2017

Lily has been incredibly fickle about allowing me to take her photo lately.  I was pretty pleased when she was game for a few photos on Thursday morning.

05/12/2017

Zélie was dusting off her hands after playing in the grass.  The sweater she is wearing originally belonged to my 19 year old niece when she was a toddler.

05/13/2017

All 4 kids have been getting so much play out of this nylon tunnel this past week.  Atticus particularly likes to stand inside it and pretend to be a noodle.