Showing posts with label storytelling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label storytelling. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Olive and Some Slugs

Our grass is long. Tyler still needs to service our lawn mower but hasn't really had the opportunity. But long, lush, green grass... it photographs so well. And feels so good. I prefer it.

We only took a few photos the last time Olive wore her new Fresh Pressed Prints shirt so when she decided to wear it again I jumped on the chance to get some more photos. Every two months we get something from Fresh Pressed Prints in exchange for photos. It's tons of fun!




I discovered Olive singing songs and trying to do cartwheels and flips and such by herself in the backyard. So I was sneaky with a few photos through our sunroom windows.



She did a little dancing.



And running.



And stuff.



And this.







I can't help it. These are so fun.



She's a pro at levitation.





June was also there.



June spends a lot of time cleaning the backyard. Olive assisted.



And then.. the snails.









It's a family. Obviously. This is the baby.





Quite possibly the sweetest photo of a kid and slugs ever.



"Hey June! Come see these slugs!"





Slug kiss.





Slug-stache.

If you want to see more photos, check out the gallery here!

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Mother's Day with the Tuskas

I've gotten behind on blog updates. Maybe I'll get a chance to go back in time and share what we've been up to. But for now here is a peek into what we did on Mother's Day.

It was a largely uneventful day. Olive and Tyler went to the store to get some things for our big brunch with the Tuskas. They also stopped by a hardware store in north loop to pick up a drywall lift.

June was napping so I had a bit of peaceful time at home.. but ended up sitting around waiting for June to wake up so I could finally join the fun.

By the time I arrive to Brooke and Scott's house the food was ready and everyone was eager to eat.





June was pretty excited about Peanut. For a while his only animal sound was to blow raspberries. Now he's moved on to making somewhat creepy growling sounds.. for every animal. So he kept growling at Peanut.



Then he check on Scott's progress in the kitchen. They have a new oven, too.



I'm not sure what they're doing but I think they have enough syrup.



His faces. They're so good.



Tyler wore graph paper for the occasion.







June was excited by Meadow's cup. At this point Meadow had to head upstairs for a nap. Darn kids having different nap schedules.



Olive requested orange juice in a fancy cup with whipped cream on top. The rest of us (minus the babies), had mimosas.



June spent some solo time rocking in the other room.



And then suddenly ended up in the kitchen with a jar of cookie cutters.



Brooke hung out with June and Olive for a bit while Tyler and I went upstairs with Scott to watch the video he's been working on from a wedding we did a few weeks ago.



While we were upstairs June and Brooke built a train track. June has never played with ours.. it's been put away since he started really playing with stuff. It turns out he built a lot of this track himself.. Brooke assumed we played with ours a lot at home. I was impressed so I took our bin out when we got home. He seems to like it but he and Olive can't manage to play with it at the same time very well.



Happy Mother's Day moms!

Monday, March 30, 2015

Pancake Adventure

Last week Olive and June received adorable handmade mice in the mail from DoodleBug. These mice are inspiration to be adventurous and get and explore. The goal is that there will be a community on Instagram to share and inspire adventure and exploration.

The day after we received the mice was chilly and windy and we were without a car.. so we took our mice on a pancake adventure. I was eager to play with them right away and wanted to do something fun, but outside didn't sound like a fun option.



Our kitchen is mid mini renovation. Don't mind the.. textured.. backsplash.



The mice helped me prepare everything.



Olive did all of the work while June looked on and supervised the mice.







This is June's mouse.



Olive requested that we make pear pancakes. Good idea!



Hi, Olive's mouse.



Olive stood on her kitchen stool while June stood on a chair. I think I might modify our kitchen stool into one of those DIY learning towers that I keep seeing all over. We didn't have a learning tower for Olive.. she did fine with the stool. But with two kiddos it would be nice to not have to worry about June falling (or climbing!) while I'm busy with something else.











June was keeping the mice entertained but kept trying to hand Olive her mouse while she was busy working.



With mice in hand we went to the other side of the kitchen.





June made the microwave beep while Olive worked on pancake cooking.



And mouse face smashing?







Yum!

Click here to see all of the photos of pancake making.