Candy making, butterfly chasing, game playing ...

Studio Ghibli watching, dinosaur researching, Dora annoying, ice cream eating, iPad playing, book reading, dog training, baby giggling, wardrobe clearing, wardrobe planning, frog feeding, hamster catching, and just the teeny tiniest bit of baby napping.

It was a full day.







My big accomplishments for the day - spring cleaning all of the kids' wardrobes. Cleaning out the camper from our first camping trip! Helping Hannah make raspberry suckers. Only eating three spoonfuls of Nutella.

We watched a Studio Ghibli movie that I was wary about - Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. I was wary because it's never been recommended as all of the other Ghibli movies always are (Hannah's favorite is Castle in the Sky and Ainsley's is My Neighbor Totoro). I don't know why this one never gets recommended. It's by far my favorite. Fantastic female protagonist and beautiful storyline and soundtrack.

10 pictures quick post.

Today was...

Playing under blankets.

Making 'old' paper.
Making pompom bunny tails.
Pulling Zander on a blanket. Everyone's new favorite game.
Checking on the tadpoles.

Trampoline and train play.
I can't even explain this one.

Visiting the South Pole. It's cold down there. If you don't take your own votive candle, you could freeze to death. True story.

Weaving.

Crafting. Zander's even got a seat at the table! Mostly he just giggles, but sometimes he throws stuff. Hannah tried to glue his hand to a piece of paper. We like to make him feel involved. He likes to try to eat paper.

Our day in 10 pictures.

Sleepy. Soooo sleepy.

We've had guests staying with us for almost a week now. Last night it all caught up with everyone.

They started dropping like flies around me.

I was stepping over bodies.

I only moved the ones that fell asleep on the floor. Those on couches or beds stayed right where they were.

They needed the sleep. They've been playing hard.

Today was a good day.

I saw that on a poster on another blogger's wall in her home. 'Today was a good day.' I like that.

Today *was* a good day.

Finding fantastic apps for an iPad - it's amazing what is out there!

Making a 'Fun Family Things in 2012' poster for the wall. We're going to go camping. A lot.

Neighbors coming over to play all day.

Getting a model train to run!

Chili dogs because my girls are obsessed with Sonic the Hedgehog who is obsessed with chili dogs.

Dance performances. A growing girl who insists on watching Mamma Mia in her own room with the door closed to dance and sing by herself.

Beginning of the year budget review and planning fun stuff for the future.

NCIS episode after the kids are in bed.

Today was a very good day.

Random.

My pictures are getting away from me. I can't remember which ones I've shared (even though those are so few these days) and there are so many cool things we've done. Here's some really recent stuff.

What have we been doing?

Painting faces.

Playing on Daddy's new phone.

Making gangster faces while crafting.

Napping.

Being spiders ...

and flies.

Eating blueberries.

Planning projects for the next week.

Napping.

Ainsley made a turkey cake for Thanksgiving.

Running really fast.

Taking silly pictures.

DINOSAUR POOP!!!!!!

Becoming mermaids.

Napping.
Indulging in 10 pm cooking.

Putting wilted celery to good use.

And napping. 'Cause that's how we roll around here.

Today we ...

Played.

And played.





And played.

And played.

And practiced tying scarves.

And made.

Really amazing - perfect to keep in the fridge for hungry-ish kids.

And dreamed.

Because the catalogs are a-comin'.

And ended with playing.

And sleeping.

And mixed in there was park-playing and dance class and playing with Daddy and errands. It was a busy, busy day.