03/29/10

Because Kara loves scrapbooking so much, Kiersten has taken an interest. Kara is really good about sharing her supplies and helping Kiersten. Kiersten sure goes through lots of stickers though. But I only give them stickers that I find really cheap on clearance to use.

Kara has completed the first session of her new ballet class. She has this weekend off, before the next session starts. In may she will be performing in Cinderella with all of the othe classes and age groups. I keep telling her she isn't going to be Cinderella, but she doesn't seem to believe me.

Parents' visit day was this past saturday. She seemed to be having lots of fun, and was by far the best bahaved. the teacher didn't have to get after her once. all of the other girls got in trouble several times each.

There was an Easter egg hunt at the community center where she takes her classes. It started right after her class was over. Here she is waiting for the fun to start. It was only for ages 3-11, but I let Kiersten participate. She only picked up 3 eggs, then decided she didn't like the chaos of all those kids running around, and came back to stand by me. She was perfectly happy with the candy she got. It's better anyway, since we always throw away holiday candy after several months. We do let them have it from time to time, but they always have so much, and we can't just let them eat all of it.

Here she is playing with "Mrs. Gunny-bag". She wasn't cleaning up her toys, so I said Gunny-bag was gonna eat all the toys. I drew faces on 2 bags, and started going after the toys. that got them to claen up, but soon turned into a game.

I let the girls paint these bunny masks. I feel horrible that I touched up kiersten's so much that you can hardly tell she worked on it. She did almost all of the white, though. I just did the other 2 colors, and outlines. But I still wish I had just left it as she did it. Kara's is the brown one. I didn't help her at all. I like that what I saw as bunny paws, she saw as easter eggs.

recognize those blue eyes?

they have been having so much fun with these all weekend. They made them on Friday eveningKara has been trying to teach Kiersten to do a somersault. I haven't been too encouraging for her to learn it yet, but she is so determined to try.

scrappy dappy doo

Kara loves to scrapbook with me. I just used to let her color while I worked on scrapbooks, but recently I've been letting her use stickers that I don't want, scissors, glue, and even a few pictures I happen to have duplicates of, or ones that I'm just not planning to use. Here are a few of her best pages so far.
you can see she messed up her name, but she didn't get upset, she just redid it the right way.

I don't even remember why I had the hat and shorts stickers, but Kara was very glad to use them.

I love this one. Even though all those animals look very much the same, they were all supposed to be different. I believe one was a cat, one a bunny, one a dog, and one a squirrel.

I printed up wallet sizes of Kara with some of the princesses at Disneyland to display in her bathroom. Since the wallets came 2 per sheet, she got to use the extra pictures.

I love her pink "mr. snowman"!

Here's the little cutie working on some halloween pages I printed out for her the other day.

artwork

I thought today would be a good day to show off some of Kara's recent art. she said this picture was her and Mickey Mouse. This is my favorite one. She even started writing his name, but I guess "M" is all she knew of it.
She said that is her in the middle, and to the left is her doll Shaka, and to the right is Kiersten.
this is the sun and "a bunch of flowers"
this is another picture of her and Kiersten. If you notice to the right, she has written her name. kinda funny, but it's there.
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she said this was a lady bug.

I think she said this was a picture of dad and the moon.

I love this "flower monster"

here is a lovely picture she drew of me! yes, it is drawn on a piece of mail.

This is her alphabet. She had a few problems with some of those letters, but I thought she did a pretty good job.

Here is some of Kiersten's work. If you can't tell, this is on the wall! thank goodness for mr. clean magic erasers!

here's some more, kinda hard to see in the pic, but in person, it just jumps right off the wall at you. no more crayons for Kiersten for a while. I had to do an all over hunt through the house to make sure I got all the crayons and pencils picked up and out of her reach, the little stinker. She even figured out to look in the diaper bag for them, so no more keeping crayons in there.