We are only 30 minutes into our “airplane trip”, and Pippi has basically gone through every time-filler I brought. Good thing I grabbed crayons and paper at the last second…because at least this time-filler will humor more than 2 seconds of her attention span.
I think this picture took a total of five minutes. I told her she should add the rest of the family, but she said, “I don’t really feel like doing that right now.” And I was wrong about the “family”..it is Posey, Penn and Blush.
The moment we boarded was very exciting, and when I let Pippi pick our seats, she thought she was a total big shot!
And then for our final time-filler…we practiced reading. This girl is going to be quite the reader! She spent a legitimate 25 minutes sounding out letters and making words out of them. I was so proud of her hard work. And right after we closed the book…the plane took off.
Cue eye-spy with my little eye.
I am heading out of town for a few days, and I asked Scout if he would be in charge of Family Prayer each night. He said he would handle the show. As I was leaving the house, I walked by his bedroom and saw a note on his bed. When I looked and saw that it said, “Pray”, my warm little heart grew three sizes with the good boy I have.
When you have great friends hanging out together…
And those great friends are using teamwork to get things done…
You run down to Costco for some pizzas, to keep the fun day going!
Who knew that Katie Garlock, Ally Tuttle and I would be watching our kids play together only one generation later!
That’s rad.
This may look like an act of service. And in some ways, it is. But the nightly foot rubs that Scout so freely offers Nonnie are part of a big con job! Scout adores his Nonnie, but really loves what is in her hand. And since television is banned during the week for the kids, his “service” gets his eyes on each nightly episode of Jeopardy. And if he is really lucky…maybe a bit of Wheel of Fortune!
After years of make shifting bedrooms and bathrooms, the girls finally have a room to call their own. And lucky for them, that room is attached to a “girl’s bathroom” which is also theirs to call their own!
Nonnie added the finishing touches by pinking it all up!
Pippi was so focused on cutting her lines straight, I complimented her.
Clearly she got a big head from it, because she then went out and challenged her dad to Mancala. Which I think she might have won.
Pippi came home with her “family”.
Sorry Navy and Scout…it looks like you are out, and Blush, Penn and Posey are in!
When we got down to Doheny today, someone had left a huge bottle nose dolphin sand sculpture with four “view” seats. It looked like it was made for our family, so we set up camp.
This dolphin provided at least two hours of pure entertainment. Pippi was the dolphin’s mother, the dolphin was Scout and Dash’s obstacle, and Navy was the dolphin’s repair person.
Until Navy became the ultimate bug whisperer.
And then the cutest surfer!
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We are so lucky to have the ultimate playground in our backyard.
Lucky us!
I love, love, love walking into a room seeing my kids reading. I was particularly impressed with Navy’s pick of Percy Jackson, which is certainly above her reading level. I was equally shocked that Scout (my reader) has reverted to The Three Ninja Pigs. But I always tell my kids, “I don’t care what you are reading…I just care that you are reading!”
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