Bree and Cate are excited to hear we might go camping this summer. (Although who knows when this social distancing might end?) But at any rate, they made their ponies a campsite. They even included sleeping bags and “campfires” in the camping sites.
Category: Cate
Week of March 22-28
Bree and Cate watch Mo Willems Doodles while Adrianna works on her biology. Another family walk in our neighborhood. Art class via an online video. Adrianna’s been busy with other art projects, too. And homemade cupcakes! And some more art from Bree, too. The girls love their Marble Run.
Week of March 15-21
Greg has been growing broccoli sprouts. Another family walk. Bree and Cate especially enjoy these walks. They like to run on some bike hills nearby (when they are not busy with other kids riding bikes.) Bree’s reading is progressing wonderfully. I’m so proud of how well she is doing. Since we aren’t going anywhere, I’ve […]
Mo Willems Doodles
Bree and Cate have been watching some of the Mo Willems Doodles videos, where the author Mo Willems talks about his creativity process and then shares how to do some of the doodles. Their drawings of Pigeon turned out great!
Regional Talent Show
The day of the Regional Talent Show arrived…and it was a disaster. Not the girls; they and all the other contestants were amazingly resilient and did great. It all started when the time had to be rescheduled because the venue had double-booked it. And then when we arrived, the show started more than an hour […]
Manicures
Grandma Debbie had the fun idea to getting the girls manicures before their big performances at regionals this week. Though the little girls had gotten their first pedicures last summer (and Adrianna’s been going with me for a few years for pedicures), this was the first manicure for each of them so they were pretty […]
Night of the Stars
Adrianna decided to participate in the local talent show again this year, Night of the Stars. Bree and Cate decided to give it a try, too! All three girls played the piano. Adrianna played “Other Friends” from the movie Steven Universe. Bree played “Brumm’s Accordian” from the video game HollowKnight, and Cate played “Drift Away” from […]
Another Lost Tooth
Cate lost her second tooth today…at her homeschool options school. And instead of telling her teacher, she simply put it in her pocket and continued on with her day. Thankfully she remembered to tell me about it when she got home!
More Pennies From Cate
Bree and Cate were talking about birds, comparing the sizes of their toy, stuffed birds to the actual sizes of their real counterparts: Bree: A real chickadee is only a quarter of the size of this toy. And a real hummingbird is probably only a quarter of the size of Cate’s hummingbird toy.Cate: No, it […]
Quick Trip to Nebraska
We made a quick trip to Nebraska for the funeral of a college friend, Angie Green. She leaves behind her husband and six children. It was a beautiful service, a celebration of her life. I cannot help but think of their family often. We left on Tuesday night, staying at a hotel in Ogallalla. Then […]